Greetings From England

Thats me and “Diggers” my roommate for 3 years at Uni and my host in Nottingham. You’re probably not interested, but there you go.

Hello OLP homies, I’m chilling this week in the land of scantily dressed women and pre-packaged sandwiche’s. So far I’ve spent two days in London, three in Cambridge seeing my family and I’m now in Nottingham where I studied. Even with the €21 I just lost at the Casino backing bad blackjack bets its nice to be home. I’ve seen a few mails and although they weren’t in a language I can do more than order beer in, it seems there might have been a few crossed wires (babelfish seems unsure) if so are a few points:

- The OLP was a big success. Internally we’re chuffed. But if I take the project document and stamp it with “massive success” we wont learn very much. The review is a little critical but we want to do better next time, good enough isn’t. So I was candid in sharing my learnings with you all, because thats the spirit of the OLP and being honest about where you can improve is Spreadshirt style.

- We’re delighted with our logos (soon to be logo). Crowdsourcing is not dead. Spreadshirt is going from strength to strength. There will be no “Frankenstein-ing”. Its one or the other, an agency will lend their experience to this. We’re stunned by the quality of the finalists, we could have picked any of the finalists as our new logo. It’s that the quality was too high that we ended with 2, not that it wasn’t high enough.

- I had booked my flight tickets even before the OLP. I love my job, I’m gutted to leave but I’ve always been a nomadic little pup, at last count I’m on my 18th house now. Spreadshirt is the best job i’ve ever had x100. If you got mails from me at 2am during the OLP that was because I was too excited to sleep, not because I was under pressure or obligation to make this work ;)

I’d love to go back to Spreadshirt after travelling, we’ve discussed it and lets see how it goes. I can’t imagine a more fun company to work for. When I started there was no Brand and Comms team, Ami and I founded it and now we’re up to something like 15 people. Everyday the work we do is challenging and fascinating. I wouldn’t walk away from that for anything but the trip of a life time.

- Polarbears hair is not white, but actually clear. Its their skin that is white and gives them that complexion from distance. This is in no way related to this post, but I’m sure you’ll agree its damn interesting.

Now some cheekies then bed, see you all next week for some more OLP action (the losers design is looking awesome, I’ll reveal it soon ;)