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Office romance

This is St John Street in Farringdon, London. The building on the left is where I work, and the building on the right is, well, where other people work.

These other people were getting pretty carried away last week with Post-it notes. It looked like they were having the mother of all meetings which had spilled from the wall, all over the windows. Either that or they were trying to solve a murder. When we noticed this in our studio, we felt similarly inspired and thought we should say hello…

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…and bit by bit we managed to have an entire conversation in stickie notes from either side of the street. I expect productivity took a bit of a hit.

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Then the knock knock jokes started…

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…but misfired once we realised we were being led down the old ‘Doctor Who’ road. Nice try.

It even started getting a little bit amorous at one stage…

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…before moving the relationship online. (ooer)

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And getting a bit more creative.

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By Friday afternoon it was decided meeting up for a beer in the pub would be a good idea. Bit of a no brainer really.

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The dress code was wear a Post-it and everybody got along just fine.

Thanks to everyone involved, most of whom had the presence of mind to take pictures which I’ve shamelessly reused here. Ryan, Mike, Leisa, Laura, Stuart and others. There’s a Flickr group here and one of those new fangled Twitter hastag things too.

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So, there you go, it’s easy to make friends. Expect to see this crop up in a mobile phone advertising campaign near you soon. Orange/O2/T-mobile/Vodafone, if you’re reading this, we’ll split it 60/40 but it really needs to be shot in California with a bland and inoffensive acoustic guitar soundtrack.

Ryan

Looking good!

Montage here http://ryantym.tumblr.com

Tony Knight

good luck with the mobile phone ad campaign…remember us when you make your millions…creators of the invader & heart – 2nd floor, interior design consultancy – BDG workfutures (sorry never got to meet you on Friday)

Richard

Apprently we’re starring in thelondonpaper today. Page 6 noless…

http://www.thelondonpaper.com/thelondonpaper/weird/odd-news/office-in-st-john-street-farringdon-starts-post-it-conversation-with-b

…although officially categorised as ‘weird’ not sure how I feel about that.

Sean

Best blog yet! : ) Made me smile

Richard

This is nice…

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