| I recently read a that going for 50 coffees with people you've never met is the entrepreneurs equivalent to the that doing anything for 10,000 hours will make you an expert on it. While I get the idea, 50 coffees is far easier than practicing something for ten years, and while I'm far from lazy I've decided to set out on a fairly simple mission: over the next 50 weeks I'm going to invite 50 interesting Vancouverites, most of whom I have never met before, to go for coffee. I'm going to use this as an exercise in networking for myself and for V.I.A. while also using it as a platform to introduce you to some people who are doing really cool stuff in the city you live in. |
Meet Kim Ridgewell. Designer by day, designer by night, Kim is one of the dedicated, passionate and talented team members over at Rethink. If you haven't heard of them they're a groundbreaking advertising, design and digital agency which was born and raised in Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»and now has a second office in Toronto. I was excited to get a tour of their office on Granville which turned out to be exactly the kind of casual environment I imagined it would be: tons of open space, friendly faces, stocked library, a drum kit, ping pong table in the board room... and a Lego room. Yes, a room that has a massive box full of Lego pieces that you can apply to the walls, as seen in the photo below. That pretty much sums it up but is a full history of the agency and is a link to some of the more recent work that Kim and the other Rethinkers have produced. Stay tuned for more from Kim as I've also wrangled her into working on a Proof feature for us!
