Spoiled Milk announces today the opening of a new London satellite office. This extends the current constellation to its fourth office and welcomes two veterans to the strategic, creative and technical talents already in place.

Since the founding in Copenhagen, the agency has grown internationally with a new office every two years: Zurich in 2008, Belgrade in 2010 and now London bringing excitement to 2012.

The London opening caps off what has been a very strong 2011, both project- and client-wise, admits Strategic Director and founder Frederik Cordes, “We have some great projects currently underway and 2012 is set to launch some unique digital campaigns worldwide. Being part of the 24MAS Group has opened up some doors for us and puts us in a great position to offer much more than your typical agency in terms of scale and distribution.”

The UK adventure dates back three years, when the first London-based client, Phaidon Press Ltd., checked in and resulted in the FWA award-winning, Wallpaper* City Guides iOS applications. Proven skills in merging digital consultancy with the subsequent production phases have since garnered the attention of others in the UK capital and created today’s need for a local presence.

Joining Spoiled Milk in the London office are Pete Russell and Gordon Dawson who will be focusing on strategic services for local accounts. Russell, previously at Publicis, later becoming a managing partner at Optimedia and co founder of P1 Sport along with Dawson, bring a wealth of experience in taking brands and IP into the digital realms.

Managing Director David Luisi concludes: “Opening this satellite office in London will allow us to offer Spoiled Milk’s outstanding creative digital services to brands and agencies across the United Kingdom and beyond. London is also an important step in our strategy of providing international support to existing clients and partners and having assets such as Pete Russell and Gordon Dawson on board to grow the business is a great start for our UK operations”.

Spoiled Milk’s Copenhagen team has moved into a new playground. More sublime, same neighbourhood.

Spoiled Milk has a special love for Copenhagen. This is where it all began as a side project back in 2005 on Haraldsgade, where things got serious on Gothersgade in 2007 and where we grew to Nørrebrogade in 2008.

We had lately gotten too eager for fresh ground under our feet to prolong our rental agreement, yet too happy about the neighbourhood to move far away. When we finally made the decision to look for new surroundings for our Copenhagen team, we only had to walk 20 numbers down Nørrebrogade to find exactly what would match our needs.

Our new office at Nørrebrogade 52C originally was a dance studio with windows in the roof and view up to the stars, but has now been completely refurbished and repainted. When we moved in, we contracted a skilled team of carpenters and painters to build the meeting room from scratch.

We consider the Interior Decoration Phase I complete and will play around with more creative projects during the year.

For a start, we can’t wait to see our peers here for a Friday bar get-together in mid-February!
 

 
Spoiled Milk
Nørrebrogade 52C, 4. TV.
DK-2200 Copenhagen

Finding talent is on the top of our agenda these days. In the last few months, an amazing quartet has joined our international gang and brought us up to a total of 21. Read a few of their thoughts here.

Dusko Ojdanic, Developer – Start small, think big

“Computers were simply a hobby of mine. Bit by bit, they steered me in the direction that I have followed to this day. I got a degree from a technical college and started working for a startup company. I made lots of friends there and gained a great deal of experience. At first I worked in Java, but when there was a chance to develop some tools for internal use in PHP, I took it. Picked up on the language and liked it. So that’s how I began my transition to the web world. And Spoiled Milk lives in the web world. There are so many things to do here and so much to learn … and, importantly, people to learn it from. Very cool.”

 
Marija Ljujic, Strategic Planner – Found the secret recipe

“Since I was little, I had great opportunities to travel throughout the world with my parents. I’ve seen many different cultures and customs, which made me strong enough to leave home for a year, when 17, and get my highschool diploma in USA. When I got back, I started my years of study and work, turned around and became a mom. Years passed, I finished the Faculty of International Economics, jobs alternated, my baby became a big boy, and all of a sudden I’m here at Spoiled Milk. A fantastic place of virtual reality, with a huge spoon of great people. I guess this spoon is the “secret” ingredient of Spoiled Milk’s recipe.”

 
Marina Dimitrijevic, Developer – Gone surfing (The Internet)

“Don’t be mislead by my talk about clothes, shoes, shopping malls and other of women’s favorite topics because there are more behind that Marina. Behind lies a real geek, truly in love with Web. I am a real Internet addict! For me, it is all about the Internet and I would like to emigrate there, in case it would be possible. That’s why I decided to become a web developer. To achieve it, I studied Computer Science at the Faculty of Electronic Engineering in my home town Nis, and after that worked for 5 years as a web developer. My weapons of choice are PHP, JavaScript, MySQL, and I have a special sympathy for CakePHP, Symfony 2.0 and jQuery. I’m mostly interested in application architecture design and development processes. Or put differently: “Agile rules!”. After moving to Belgrade, I decided to join the Spoiled Milk team, because of the special spirit that I felt once I entered Spoiled Milk’s office.”

 
Vladimir Vujosevic, Front-end Developer – Up for the challenge

“As far as I can remember, computers were a hobby of mine. And I should be thankful to my family for the initial bit of investment, setting me up with what I needed to get going. My role as a computer user evolved over the years in different ways. In my younger days, I was more drawn to development of computer graphics and music. During and after college, I started evolving in web and software development, which brought me to where I am today: Appreciating various languages of the web (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby) and enjoying the best of both worlds of design and development. In Spoiled Milk, I have found what I was always looking for in a company – an opportunity to work on new and challenging projects in a great environment with awesome people.”