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…

…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.

Then the knock knock jokes started…

…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…

…before moving the relationship online. (ooer)

And getting a bit more creative.

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.

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.

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.

I’m not sure how long this has been around, but I just stumbled across the ecofont. Basically it’s a standard sans serif font, but using it consumes 20% less ink. That’s down to those little itty bitty holes in the letters, which viewed large look pretty odd, but apparently printed at 9 or 10 points as part of standard office communications, don’t affect the type too much. Apparently.

Hmm, I’ll wait to be convinced on that, appearance on screen in particular has got to be a bit of a nightmare, just imagine the font hinting going on in that sucker! It’s also a shame it can’t make your words 20% more effective as well, but you’ve got to admire the intention.

Of course, Budmo Jiggler by the prolific Ray Larabie has been carrying the torch for years, I’d give good money to see a PowerPoint presentation set in that…

Oh, and I found it in Wired magazine.