Although it might look from our blog like all we ever do is work (and sometimes it feels a bit like that too), we do tend to have sporadic burst of fun while we're at it.

Here's some photos from the (ir)regular cake baking contest that went on recently.

Organising the bake-off wasn't that hard. Apart from the 6 weeks it took to decide what the rules were. Of which most of the time was spent re-visiting the old cake vs. biscuit debate.

But as we all now know:

A cake goes hard as it ages, a biscuit goes soft... 

Or something like that.

Pokenewyork.com has had a makeover. She now looks similar to Pokelondon.com. Which we hope is a good thing. They're not quite identical twins, but there is a bunch of shared DNA. Perhaps they're more like connected mutant offspring spawned from some evil gene-mangling experiment. In a nice way.

Go and see the lovely work they're doing and find out more about them.

The Design Museum are running an exhibition called Designs of the Year. It's on from 13th Feb - 27th April.

They say:

Designs of the Year presents 100 projects nominated by a group of internationally respected design experts, curators, critics, practitioners and enthusiasts.

These projects fall within seven categories: architecture, fashion, furniture, graphics, interactive, product and transport.

I've got no idea who we should thank, but the Orange Unlimited site has ended up in there. Which is really exciting for us.

You should go and check it out, not to see the Never Ending webpage (you can see that here), but to see all the other great stuff that we're really proud to be sitting alongside:

• Gary Hustwit's Helvetica documentary
• Streetcar
• The Nintendo Wii
• OLPC (One Laptop Per Child)
• The new Fiat 500

Find out more at the Design Museum Site.

We've got a new approach for promoting ClubPub. Instead of telling you when it's coming up we're going to post photos showing what a great time people had instead. That way it might encourage more people to sign-up for the ClubPub mailing list (the only reliable way to find out when the next one's going to be).

The theme was Australia day. If the photos lead you to believe something else, sorry.

There's also a second lovely set of photos from the night (all arty and black and white and stuff) over here. 

Jenny Packham, designer of choice to Hollywood A-listers Keira Knightley, Eva Longoria and Beyonce, asked Poke to design a beautiful, new website showcasing both her ready-to-wear and bridal ranges.

We've already given all you creative types a nudge about remembering to enter the Webbys this year.

Now it's D&AD reminder time.

If you fancy putting your work up for winning the most important pencil based creative awards in the universe you've only got until the 16th January.

Not very long at all!

Find out everything you need to know right here: http://awards08.dandad.org/

We woke up this crispy morning to find santa had popped by a bit early and slipped a few goodies into Poke's stocking. Serial mentions in this year's Campaign Awards, the UK's pre-eminent Ad industry weekly jumped out one by one as we flipped the pages front to back.

Digital Agency of the Year
No. 2 (closely following our friends at Dare who take the top spot). We fell short of the top spot because of this year's poor new biz record. One man's "weakness" is another man's "discerning" ;-)

Top 10 Digital Ad Campaigns
At No.3 it's Orange with Spot the Bull
Straight in at No.8 are Orange and Unlimited

Top 10 Bloggers
No.6, Iain Tait, Poke partner and the guy at the turning corner of adland's revolution, pushing Crackunit.com

Top 10 Digital Talent
Just in at No.9, Iain Tait, the Taitmeister Tait in his rightful place.

Top 10 Adland Brands
Also at No.9 here's that Simon Waterfall, we're just confused why he's not number 1.

For a start client work always seems to get in the way. And then you've got to try and mediate between a load of people with very different views of what the site should look like, be like and everything down to the choice of bolts you use to attach the server to the wall in the place where all the computers go.

Anyway after lots of false starts and all kinds of constructive rowing (as in having arguments not paddling boats down rivers) here's our new site...

The purpose of the redesign is to make it easier to find stuff (and in the background make it a lot easier for us to update too).

It's not perfect and there's a few bits and bobs that we're still working on, but we've heard that it's OK for your site not to work. In fact it's really uncool if your site isn't in some kind of terminal beta.

Hope you like it in spite of any little wibbles, glitches or typos.

If you were watching the BBC last night you could barely move for WWF branded paper boats and planes - well not exactly. But they were on News at 10 and Newsnight which is pretty good.

Was really nice to see them being used as a visual icon for the issue as we'd always hoped.

To find out more about what's been going on with the campaign visit the Get on Board blog

Why on earth would anyone conceive of such a thing?

When:
Wednesday 31 October, 7ish-late

Where:
The Electricity Showrooms, 39A Hoxton Square
(near 333/Mother Bar just by Old St/Hoxton St)

More:
www.clubpub.org

You might think by looking at the tabloids that all Kate Moss does is hang around with rockstar BFs, get into scrapes and smoke fags. And there's no doubt that she does some of that kind of thing.

But she also manages to find time to come into Poke and hang around and help us to make a nice website for her Topshop collection. She's really lovely and she makes a killer cup of tea, and there was this one time when she she came to the office and forgot to wear any clothes...

Just like the youth of today we're well into gettin' respect. So we were pleased not to get dissed in the New Media Age Top 100.

Although we're not high rollers in the chart of earners (bear in mind we're relatively little), we do however score pretty well in the 'respect' chart.

Looking at the list we're in fine company and not bad given that towards the top end of the chart we're younger and smaller than most. It looks like we're 4th, but we're not, right, we're joint third, and we're going to make sure that everyone knows it.

Thank you to everyone who respected us in the survey.

Seriously though it's great news and we're hoping that he can help to push the digital agenda in some interesting and productive ways over the next year. For the benefit of all of the whole industry and human-kind in general.

For the last 3 years Poke have supported Everyman's annual sponsored moustache growing month. Well when we say Poke have supported it what we mean is that we haven't fired anyone for gross facial misconduct during the slightly embarrassing first couple of weeks of 'tache growth.