The UK office of our department shares space with some of our ad agencies. What a difference that makes. Both Saatchi and Leo Burnett share the building. After a hard day, you can take the elevator to the pub for a drink. Matter of fact, this is London so you can drink any time of day.
You see, when you're recruiting and trying to keep the design-ee types that spend their day coming up with snappy copy to sell greater numbers of Pampers, you have to tick the boxes. First, a post-industrial office that has been modernized in all the right ways. Ours is in a converted paper factory.
Helps to have a cafeteria with a floating staircase and mood lighting. You can get a proper hot lunch as long as you line up in the right line. When you don't there's this bloke with slicked back hair and a white apron who yells at you. "Oi, dare are free lines, not two, yeah?"
Before 9am toast and all the fixings are free. I timed my daily walk to take advantage of this.
There are cool murals on the walls and the latest pop music on the loudspeakers.
Design-ees like to be reassured that their three squares have the proper provenance. God forbid your Quinoa salad wasn't sourced directly from a farmer named Omar along the Nile.
Then, once you've digested, no rush back to work. Stop, relax, play a game of foosball or pool - you never know when that next great ad idea will hit you.
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