About W+K Lodge

W+K Lodge a design engineering group that exists to shake up the way creativity works with technology. It is a team of curious-minded experts in machine learning, interaction design, real-time graphics and other emergent parts of tech. The Lodge was founded by independent, privately held global creative company Wieden+Kennedy.

Our Mission

We help our clients thrive in a meaningful impact on the future for the future, evolve organizations in a rapid product and support people by uncovering latent needs, behaviors and brands, and interactive experiences that transform the future, evolve organizations and grow.*

*see how we wrote this

Who We Are

We are a team of 25 designers, engineers, and strategists. Our team of creative-minded designers and engineers works on projects ranging from mobile apps, VR, platforms, installations, robotics, fabrication, electronics and more.

What We’re Up To

The team supports specific innovation assignments for key W+K clients, working exclusively with Nike's Innovation Kitchen, Samsung and KFC, and they also work with fast moving startups like Soylent to build a new playbook for creative marketing.

News

SHOTS magazine put the team on the cover.

Adweek named Nilesh and Paulo to the Creative 100​.

The Drum previewed our session at SXSW that explored the hype and bias currently surrounding AI.

MONOCLE and Portland Monthly profiled our robot's impact on W+K.

c|net, Forbes​, and Maxim covered the Verizon network we built in Minecraft.

FastCo wrote about our immersive VR experience for Chrysler that gave consumers a glimpse into how a vehicle is built as if you were on the factory floor.

Mashable highlighted how we turned kids into trolls to launch the Oscar-nominated film, The Boxtrolls.

We’re Hiring

We’re looking for curious designers and engineers at all levels of experience to join our team. Currently we’re focused on filling the following positions:

Email lodgejobs@wk.com

*How we wrote our mission statement

It’s hard to write a mission statement for a team like ours. Who knows what we’ll make tomorrow? Not us, we’re just a bunch of designers and coders and hackers. So instead of trying to match the big-brained positioning-statement experts at other agencies, we collected a few dozen of their mission statements and fed it through Mimic, an artificially intelligent text-generation engine we coded. This is like training for Mimic. It makes Mimic grow strong and knowledegable, standing on the shoulders of those mission-statement-writing giants.

Mimic can then produce unique new mission statements anytime we ask it to. So we asked it, and we picked the one that sounded coolest.