The French are at war again!

This time, however, it doesn't involve firearms or explosives (at least, not yet). The Guardian reports:

... across the French capital, the summer has been enlivened by a corporate collage contest known as La guerre des Post-it (the Post-it wars). The battle is between presumably underemployed office workers who are devoting large chunks of their days to sticking thousands of pink, yellow, orange and green notes on their windows to recreate pixelated images.




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Young executives from competing firms meet at lunchtime to compare their creations and plan ripostes. "Each time we have to come up with something bigger, wackier, more adventurous," Julien Berissi, 28, a project manager at Société Générale, told TF1 news. His rival, Stephane Heude from GDF/Suez, said the battle had been "very good socially", bringing together workers who would not otherwise have met.




For the time being, Ubisoft – where office manager Emilie Cozette is credited with the opening salvo – is the champion: its latest effort extended over three floors and used more than 3,000 Post-it notes to create a a design so complex it had to be worked out on a computer.

There's more at the link.

The Guardian has a gallery of images of the Post-It creations, and a French Web site, Post-It War, has a whole bunch of them (click on the Archives link there to find them). Some of them are amazingly detailed. Looks like a lot of fun is being had by all concerned.



Peter