Thursday, November 18, 2010

The 8th wonder and Hamra Cafe

Ah! So they've done it again!.... Wondereight teams again with Boubess group (Bob's diner, Laziz and now Hamra Cafe) for a mouth-watering super execution. When I published the 500th post of this blog, I got a comment from Boudy Narala which went "Congratulations on your 500th post! Keep butchering the agencies and no worries at all ;-))) if we get butchered we deserve it!" All I can say Boudy is - with such wonderful work you guys are producing in terms of branding and image for your clients, there's no way on earth you guys can be butchered. Pity there was a silly waiter at Hamra Cafe who came up with the rule that "photographing was forbidden." Still, the sous-plat above is a perfect example of how Wondereight got Hamra right! Don't let the light going "red" (Hamra) stop you, just go right ahead!

8 comments:

Rana.B* said...

Congrats W8, best branding agency in lebanon indeed !
I am a big fan !

Rana

lboodl said...

Thanks Tarek for the appreciation, it means a lot to us coming from you.

I just want to correct the fact that Laziz was done by Nancy Dehny (ex-move design). We send her our salutations if she’s reading this : ) We have a lot of respect for Nancy’s work.
As for Boubess group, they have many successful concepts which we helped create, of which Mandarine, Kaiten, Le Commodore, TheMET and more to come ;-)

On a side note (and I know I keep saying it) your blog is a great read, one of the rare, content-rich websites in the Lebanese online scene. Sadly enough, most of us Lebanese (including me!) are not active on the blogging scene, we do not participate enough…I mean look at the comments on NTSC, many posts have 0 comments, people should react more often! But I believe we’re getting there…people are starting to be more open, share more…and hence learn more ;-)

Tarek Chemaly said...

Ah well, sorry for the misunderstanding regarding Laziz! Regards to Nancy indeed!.... That being said, well, I suppose we are all trying our best (no matter how daunting this is!)... Listen - let's strike a deal: You don't do blogging and I don't do branding! How does that sound to you? (OK, I hold it as an unfair bargain because I can't brand to save my life! :) )....

hady said...

Hey Boudz, if you're nagging about the lack of comments over the posts; well here goes a good & quite truthful one:

Wondereight Rocks! :)

Keep it up guys

Dani said...

And they do it again! I have to give it up to you Wondereight,,you guys do fantastic work, and need I say more about your blog Tarek? I believe it's all been said before. Looking forward to seeing more great things from the both of you..oh, and ps. Cafe Hamra is by far my favorite restaurant of yours!

Dani said...

Oh, and ps..I took a bunch of pictures of Cafe Hamra.. two words, camera phone. :D

lboodl said...

Thanks Dani ;-) your blog is a great read too! Its becoming THE guide to the restaurants scene in Beirut!

liked the post on Happy Independence Day! ;-)

Boudy

Tarek Ghaziri said...

Lots of love to W8 and zi BOUDZ!!