A few weeks ago, the MD of Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam – the insanely smart, kind and horribly handsome – Blake Harrop sent me a cryptic note saying he needed my home address.
OK, it wasn’t that cryptic because he basically said, ‘can I have your home address’ … but it was still a bit weird. And lovely.
To be honest, I’d forgotten about it until I came home late and found a package marked “sculpture” on the dining table.
Despite thinking it was quite likely to be a letter bomb, I opened it up and found this …
Yes, I know it’s fucking hideous, but it’s also beautiful because it’s a clog that has been carved to look like a Birkenstock that is also an iPhone stand.
That’s right, if I was a one-legged weirdo, I could use it to hop outside ANNNNNNND store my iPhone in it.
But that’s not the total mad thing – though I accept the fact this this actually exists, is pretty bonkers – it’s the fact it was a present from the very lovely nutters at Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam, specifically planning amazeballs Maria and the wonderfully brilliant ECD, Eric.
Why?
Because they are beautiful people and have utterly alarming taste. Or should I say know I have utterly alarming taste.
Anyway I absolutely adore it and it is another reminder how special Wieden is as a company, partly because of who they have in the company …, even if to most folks out there, this would be a declaration of war or the most insulting way to say you didn’t get the job.
Thank you my beautiful fools over in the dam, I love it.
13 Comments
Maybe they’ve hidden drugs in the shoe? That would be a gift.
Comment by Billy Whizz October 11, 2017 @ 6:20 amwhen the fuck did wieden get so fucking stupid? oh i know, after you worked for them.
Comment by andy@cynic October 11, 2017 @ 6:30 am#Fact
Comment by Rob October 11, 2017 @ 8:06 amyou know theyre calling you fucking ridiculous dont you campbell?
Comment by andy@cynic October 11, 2017 @ 6:30 amYes … but compared to what they could be calling me, I’ll take it.
Comment by Rob October 11, 2017 @ 8:07 amTo buy a present for Rob means WK Ams must have a dealer with awesome mind altering product.
Comment by DH October 11, 2017 @ 6:49 amNice thought but a bad decision.
Comment by DH October 11, 2017 @ 6:49 amI think they are coming to that conclusion as I type.
Comment by Rob October 11, 2017 @ 8:12 amWeren’t you there for 7 years? If they didn’t work it out then, they aren’t as clever as everyone thinks they are.
Comment by DH October 11, 2017 @ 9:00 amThey really liked you didn’t they. Why?
Comment by Bazza October 11, 2017 @ 7:46 amcomedy relief.
Comment by andy@cynic October 11, 2017 @ 7:53 amMore likely, he distracted the overlords’ attention and that meant the rest of them could get away with all sorts of mischief.
Comment by John October 11, 2017 @ 1:23 pm[…] a while back I wrote how Wieden Amsterdam sent me a bloody pottery Birkenstock clog for no other reason than being nice […]
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