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What the culture's like

We’re situated in the heart of Trendy Clerkenwell™, which thankfully still retains enough rough edges to ward off total poncification. It can however only be a matter of time.

Soho and Covent Garden are a five minute bus ride away, likewise the City. Clerkenwell Green, Smithfield and Exmouth Market are an easy walk, as are such excellent hostelries as The Eagle, Three Kings and The Red Pub.

There are about 40 of us, split pretty evenly between Colouring In, Excel Spreadsheets and Doing Clever Things With Code, and as you might expect, the atmosphere’s pretty good.

The office is open plan, which seems to work well most of the time, unless someone plays Coldpatrol on the stereo.

As an agency that does lots of stuff, most of us do lots-of-stuff – there’s no one here to make the tea or send your post, sorry.

The up-side of course is that you get exposed to lots of things, and get to enjoy the butt-clenching excitement of doing things you’ve never done before. It’s a bit like like National Service for Wimps.

As you may also have guessed from the quite frankly inappropriate tone of this site, while we dedicate ourselves to turning out top-notch things for clients, we don’t take ourselves too seriously.

That said, we have started getting a bit of press, which while brilliant, is a bit strange. So if you see anything daft purporting to come from us in the periodicals, we’ve either been misquoted, or were a bit drunk.