Nice words from Michael Wolff

I've just begun what could be a really interesting collaboration with Michael Wolff, formerly the Wolff in Wolff Olins, and the branding agency Heavenly.

I submitted my first bit of copy to the team yesterday, and got this from Michael this morning. It was so nice I wanted to show it off:

Beautiful, calm, enthusiastic and reassuring.
Thank you Mike.

And thank you for demonstrating the value
of tone of voice so eloquently.

Isn't that nice? And from a proper legend, too. Chuffed.

And again.

It's been a good week for my ego, and it's ending on a bit of a high.

I've been doing my first job for Manchester designers True North (thanks to a very kind referral from Michael Johnson, since we're in trumpet-blowing mode), and it's going pretty well. In fact, I just had an email from Claire there, and she says:

'Mike I haven't spoken to the others but for what it's worth I think this is bloody great. Exactly what I was looking for.'

'Bloody great': that'll do me. Have a good weekend, all.

Shameless again.

It's always nice to hear that one of your clients has recommended you to someone else. Is there a more genuine or valuable recognition of your work?

Recently I had an email from a potential new client, who'd been given my name by James Backhurst, a designer at Elmwood whom I've worked with a few times over the years.

It was lovely to know that James was confident enough to recommend me, and even better to hear what he'd said. Apparently his exact words were:

"Mike is kick-ass, very funny and uber-smart!"

Goodness. Thanks very much to James, I've never been described as "kick-ass" before. Or "uber-smart", come to that. I like the sound of both very much.

(If you can stomach it, there's more about how wonderful I am here, here, here and here.)

Shameless II

Following on from the earlier post about nice things people say, I've just had this email from Laura at Reef, in response to my first draft of a piece I'm doing for her:

Amazing - love it.
We may need to tweak a few [bits] but first impressions are good.

This is the sort of thing that brightens a cloudy day.

The Design Luminary Seal of Approval

Just had another nice email about the mailer:



"I thought it was wondrous... an example of what you can do when you wake up," says Michael Wolff. (Formerly of Wolff Olins, just in case you're not in the biz.)

You may consider me chuffed.