We've just had some rather good news - and a fringe benefit of this is that I can share my favourite photos[1] of 2008 with you:
Mr Falletti and I took a top-secret 1-day trip to Seattle last December to present Future Platforms to Microsoft and put us forward for a very interesting piece of work. These things usually take time to bear fruit, but I can now reveal that we've won the job. It would be a chronic understatement to say we're all tremendously excited that the world's largest software company chose us over the competition.
My lips are tightly (and rightly) sealed when it comes to talking about what we're doing, and in fact you won't be hearing a great deal from me in the immediate future; we're collocating our team with MS for the start of the project, so we'll all be out of the country for a little while. I'll be able to talk a lot more about what we're up to in due course, though.
The one downside of this is that I get to miss Mobile World Congress (again), and LIFT (which I was really looking forward to). But hey - we're a service agency, and with the UK heading into recession it seems churlish in the extreme to complain about winning a large piece of interesting work from a high-profile new customer :)
Oh alright then, it's my *second* favourite photo, after this one:
Nice work & good luck ;-)
Posted by: James | February 17, 2009 at 10:38 AM
Congratulations, Tom! Have a great time in Seattle.
Posted by: Adam Cohen-Rose | February 17, 2009 at 10:56 AM
Nice tie Sergio. I am sure that swung it. How much for you to do really, really, really bad work for them?
Posted by: schlunzi | February 17, 2009 at 11:05 AM
Nice work Hume, Falletti and FP towers, well done!
Posted by: Rod McLaren | February 17, 2009 at 11:13 AM
Big Up tha FP massive!
Posted by: Dominic Arkwright | February 17, 2009 at 11:37 AM
Congrats! I hope it works out well for y'all!
Posted by: Dominic Mitchell | February 17, 2009 at 08:44 PM
I read this and was delighted. Amazingly cool news, and inspirational for any other small agency ploughing their furrow and wondering what might happen next. Really, really good.
PS, and don't take this the wrong way, I read this a few days ago on my iPhone on train home. Later that night just before my wife and I switched the lamps off to go to sleep I burst into laughter. She asked what's up. I had to describe that photo at the bottom of this post. I couldn't remember the backstory but just explained how bizarre and funny it looked. Thankfully she laughed too.
Good luck.
Posted by: Will McInnes | February 19, 2009 at 06:01 PM