When I left Wieden+Kennedy Shanghai, I wanted to do something that was a mix of mischief and love.
OK, mainly mischief.
So I had 600 stickers [like the the one above] and hid them throughout the newly refurbished office, Nike GCHQ, restaurant and bars near the office and – just because I was spending so much time there – Wieden+Kennedy Tokyo.
I have to say, hiding that many stickers can be quite difficult, but it forced me to get very creative with it … which is why for months afterwards, people would message me to say they had found one in the most unlikely of places.
Apparently all this tomfoolery really, really pissed someone off there – which, I must admit, made me smile for a whole host of reasons – and they went through the office trying desperately to find and destroy all the stickers they could find.
Well, a couple of weeks ago, a friend of mine – who had helped with the hiding – sent me the above photo.
Yep, it’s one of the stickers we placed.
Yep, it’s one of quite a few they still haven’t found.
Which makes me so, so happy.
Not just because if the person it annoyed so much finds out there’s still some there, they’ll not sleep for the feeling I got one over on them … but because after 3 years since I left, it surely means I qualify as the official cockroach of Wieden+Kennedy Shanghai. Which would be wonderful, because I loved every second of my time there.