Kevin Thomson Joins BBDO San Francisco as Creative Director

Today we learned that veteran creative Kevin Thomson has left his position at The Martin Agency in Richmond, Virginia for a job as Creative Director at BBDO San Francisco.

BBDO’s newest CD has more than a decade of industry work under his belt: he joined Martin in 2011 to write copy for clients like Discover, Exxon, Walmart and GEICO (2013 “Portraits Gallery” spot here). Prior to the Martin gig, he spent just over a year with JWT and more than seven years with Seattle-based WPP shop Cole & Weber.

Thomson officially begins at BBDO SF on July 21st, reporting directly to EVP/ECD Craig Mangan; he will work on various brands including Gallo Wines and Sutter Health.

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Geico Adds More ‘Work’ to Their Weird Digital Art Museum

The Geico Museum of Modern Insurance may not be the Louvre, but you can find the Mona Lisa in both places. In August, the Martin Agency teamed with Geico to launch a digital art museum, which is really another way of saying 15- and 30-second ads that run before videos on Hulu, Netflix, etc. Six weeks later, the museum’s collection has been updated with new videos that continue to embrace the quirky side of art. In most of the clips, people and animals in paintings talk to each other about insurance. The original press release even comes with a cutesy G-MOMI abbreviation, which sounds more like a bad rapper name than a neighbor to the Modern Museum of Art. However, MOMA does not have Napoleon Bonaparte singing a duet of “She’ll Be Coming ‘Round the Mountain.” G-MOMI does.

Other clips, a few of which you can watch after the jump, include George Washington talking to a cat and Mona Lisa talking to a baby. They’re short, strange, and potentially funny if you like the absurd. Credits below.

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