I’ve never read the book Business For Dummies, nor am I 100% sure that one exists with that title. But if it does, I’m fairly certain that quite near the front, like page 1, there’ll be a passage that says “If you are attending an international design conference in China, don’t forget to take your business cards with you, otherwise you’ll look stupid.”

Fortunately Alistair bought plenty with him, but now everyone thinks we’re both called Alistair Sim. This is why he is MD, and I am not.

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Jesse Auersalo
YCN Live

There was excitement in the agency on Friday as no one eagerly gathered around for our monthly “Don’t Bake a Cake Off”.

Set up nearly five months ago, not baking cakes was designed to help build team spirit in the agency and has proved a real hit. So far no one’s baked chocolate brownies (scrummy!), Victoria sponge cakes (not so scrummy), flapjacks (won by Anna) and muffins (no one bothered not baking anything), but this month it was everyone’s turn not to bake Carrot Cakes.

Chris G’s effort – needed more icing.

We were really impressed with the amount of people that didn’t bother to bake anything, with Chris G, Rory, Emma, Leanda and Adam F all not making a really good effort. Adam R also didn’t bake a cake, but we suspect he might have got his girlfriend not to bake it!

Hari’s entry – slightly over-done, but no walnuts was a nice touch.

It was a really close call, but in the end everyone agreed the amazing, moist carrot cake shaped like a real carrot that Emma didn’t bake was the worthy winner.

Em’s winning effort – great with a cuppa!

Next month: no one’s baking cookies!

If you’re a fan of duck-herding, ferret-racing, morris-dancing, welly-wanging, pie-eating and smoothie-drinking, and you weren’t in Regent’s Park at the weekend, you missed out big time.

After kind invitations from Dan, four of us made the trip to our capital city on Saturday for the innocent Village Fete. Despite a large downpour around one o’clock, we all had an excellent time. Except we don’t really have any good photos to show for it. Sorry. Here’s a picture of Phil after he tried to drink Tuborg through his eye.

And a close up of the table we sat at. You can just about make out at bit of Jo’s foot, top left.

If you’d like to see some slightly more professional photography from the day we’d recommend heading over to the Fete blog. A big thank you to everyone for the excellent hospitality.

An official statement from the LOVE management:

On 20th July 2008, at 1810 GMT the new LOVE website was launched.

Due to other commitments Boris Johnson was unavailable to attend.

It has been designed in Powerpoint.

It contains work designed by us over the last seven years.

There is still more work to be done on it.

We hope you like it.

You can turn the sound off if you want to.

If you don’t know who Russell Davies is, you can find out here.

Thank you to everyone who has worked on it.

Statement ends.

We’re after a senior account manager to work across our advertising, design and sometimes digital accounts. The candidate needs to display unflappable coolness when up against it, must be interested in collaboration rather then old school hierarchy, and have a faultless group hug action. 

Details to r.hall@lovecreative.com

Have you lost faith in humanity? Perhaps you’ve just finished reading the Daily Mail and can’t believe what the world’s coming to? Or maybe you’ve just witnessed a cat being run over by an articulated lorry. Whatever. If you need a little cheering up, we’d recommend watching “Where the Hell is Matt”.

Of course, you might not want to think about the fact that whilst you’re sat in your office reading blogs, Matt’s being sponsored by some chewing gum manufacturer to travel all over the world. Apart from that, it’s brilliant.

Been asked recently what’s been on our playlist at work/home. Apart from Fleet Foxes, Howlin Rain, Band of Horses, The Shortwave Set, The Whip, Dennis Wilson and lots of Nigerian Psychedelic Funk, we’ve picked up these classics from ebay for the summer.

Four Season - Genuine Imitation Life Gazette

Marcos Valle - Garra

And the ultimate Saturday morning album…
The Sandpipers - Come Saturday Morning  

Enjoy.

Duties include: Day-to-day running of the office. Front of house. Finance responsibilities. And generally someone to sort us all out.

Please email Dani (d.hawley@lovecreative.com) if you know of anyone that would be interested.

‘Let’s do the 3 Peaks Challenge on 21st June’, we thought…longest day and all that… ‘we’re bound to get nice weather…’ we thought, when we planned our fundraising effort for Christian Aid back in February. In the event, weather conditions were more like those you associate with the middle of winter, but we’re pleased to say that we got our team of 8 up and down Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Snowdon within our target time of 24 hours, raising cash for Christian Aid in the process (you can still sponsor us here!) We got buffetted by wind, we got rained on, hailed on and didn’t sleep a wink, but it was worth it. Special mention for Alf in particular, who got round despite excruciating pain from his knees…seeing him get down Snowdon was like watching Touching the Void all over again.

Ben Nevis summit, 8pm Saturday

Scafell Pike summit, 7am Sunday

Snowdon summit, 3pm Sunday

Now, looking back at these pictures has made me realise that a cynic could say they were all taken on top of the same mountain (and I’m thinking we might have missed a trick there…) but we can assure you we’ve got the blisters and aching limbs to show for our ascents of all three!

Sponsor us and we’ll tell you the story about the dancing dwarf…