Friday, March 9, 2007

i want this job

so... once upon a time i went to England. it was fantastic. on my way back, i spent a few hours wandering about all the airport shops in Gatwick, spent most of my last tenner on a book, and with the remaining bits of change, bought a smoothie.

i don't remember what flavor it was, but i fell in love with the bottle. its label was the cutest and most witty piece of branding i'd ever seen. i kept that bottle for a long time, even though it got a bit smashed in my carry-on luggage. eventually it got lost, thrown out by my mum or something... but i never ever forgot innocent smoothies.

i looked up their website. it's very stylish these days, moreso than it was three years ago. they have a blog. (who doesn't?) and there's a gallery of all their cute labels. they sell books. they have grass covered vans and every year they do a summer festival--fruitstock, they call it. they're all about that organic, recyclable, sustainable, green commerce sort of stuff. it's so enchanting. i sound like an utterly smitten fan-girl. oh well.

and now they want to hire a creative person. me! i would love that. any excuse to move to london, right? how exciting that would be.

if only i weren't all committed to this serving-the-lord idea... dropping off the planet for eighteen months.

but anyway, all i can do now is hope that when i get back they might need another creative person. perhaps to bring the glory of innocent drinks to America, as i've been hoping, ever since i smuggled an empty smoothie bottle out of England.


(image borrowed, of course, from innocent themselves.)

4 comments:

dangermain said...

Hello Amelia. Just thought we'd say hello. Sorry that you can't apply for the job, but hello from London anyway. Enjoy dropping off the planet. From Dan (at innocentdrinks dot co dot uk).

Amelia Chesley said...

hey, thanks. have fun selling smoothies, eh?

Ruby in the Rough said...

Hahaha! That's great! They actually saw our blog! Hehehe!

Hey, that would be the perfect job for you! I would totally vouch for you!

Unknown said...

wow.
that almost scares me.

I shouldn't speak badly of a company should I?