Your Zone Friday: Dressed for success
Things we’ve done and things we like this week
Three things we've done
Rocked out in Schleswig-Holstein
New account director James Simpson is so keen to impress his colleagues at Zone he took his life in his hands by going to the world's largest open-air metal festival in Wacken, Germany, on behalf of Relentless Energy Drink. He came back physically whole, but slightly disturbed. Check out the video on our Relentless Energy Drink website.
Got crazy air and stuff
Zone created the secret college society The Pepperhood on behalf of Dr Pepper and this week we launched the latest challenge, Pepperboy. It's a rather stylish pastiche of an arcade classic and a fiendishly tricky little fella to get your keyboard around.
Went a bit dippy
This week our Channel 4 Food team have gone a bit dippy. No, they haven't inadvertently deleted their entire website, but instead have shot this lovely video with the How To Cook In High Heels girls showing us how to make healthy healthy dips. Perfect for a summer picnic - apart from the inevitable torrential rain and arctic winds, of course.
Beardstrokable infogram
This week’s data makeover
Zone prides itself on its immaculate tailoring. But when this selection of buttoned-up, bespoke editorial types turn up to a fancy dress party, which outfit do they favour?
Zone hero of the week
This week we welcome account director Vikki Cheung to the Zone fold. Vikki joins us from AKQA, she's travelled extensively and is a connoisseur of regional fermented beverages. Her favourite destination is, apparently, South Africa.
Tea or coffee? Tea. Earl Grey. "With a double teabag." Pow!
Geek of the Week speaks
Our tech team are on a mission to shed their nerdy reputation. We chart their progress...
This week our beloved system administrator Du Li is continuing his struggle to replace order with, er, greater order, through the medium of server migration. For those cynics that argue this in no way belies the nerdy aura that surrounds people of a technical persuasion, we installed a webcam in the office late last Saturday night to see what Du and his team did while the servers flew south for the summer. Du’s the one in the wig, by the way.
‘I made this’
Zone staff share their creative moments
This week: Senior project editor Charlie Cottrell has been polishing her cones. It's all part of her passion for frozen dairy produce. Keep your eyes peeled for her soon-to-be-ubiquitous Snö van, coming soon to an outdoor event near you.
NEWSFLASH!
Nothing gets our BT Vision team quite as excited as celebrities shouting at each other, which is why they wrote this about Celebrity Big Brother. They're also bouncing up and down with joy at the return of The X Factor and, perhaps most of all, over the prospect of 25 women clawing over Gavin Henson in The Bachelor.
Three things we like
The graphic novel
If you're tired of listening to theatre bores wittering on about how Shakespeare is "still relevant", Anthony del Col and Connor McCreery's graphic novels might just make you re-evaluate the Bard.
The browser
Functionally lovely, produced by a non-profit and free: what's not to like about the latest verison of Firefox?
