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With more than 20 years of television marketing experience, Tobin Kirk will join Laundry as the design and animation studio’s executive producer, where he will help lead business development as well as client and project management efforts.
“We’re really excited to add Tobin’s elite experience and personal enthusiasm for design, animation and client services to the Laundry team,” PJ Richardson, Laundry partner and executive creative director, said in a statement. “We know he’ll help us elevate the studio and creative process even more.”
Kirk’s experience spans broadcast design, main title sequences, integrated content, traditional on-air spots, branded content, digital, and social media. He most recently worked as managing executive producer at Troika overseeing all production. Prior to that he spent nearly five years as executive producer at Blind, managing projects for clients such as XBOX/Microsoft, AT&T, ancestry.com, and Sealy Mattress.
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As a producer, Kirk’s background includes projects such as the main title sequence for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo at Blur Studio; commercials for Chrysler and Gatorade at A52; and an in-flight video for Method/Virgin America at Green Dot Films.
He also spent three years with Farmer Brown working for TBS, CBS, Mark Burnett Productions, Al Roker Productions, The Ant Farm, Bunim/Murray, and Endemol USA. And he’s spend more than six years collaborating with video artist Bill Viola producing projects for the London National Gallery, Athens Olympics, the Getty Museum, Opera National de Paris, Guggenheim Museum, Munich’s EON Corporation and Anthony d’Offay Gallery.
“I’ve seen Laundry do great creative work over the course of 10 years while growing and maturing into one of the premier studios in the industry,” Kirk said.
He’ll work closely with Laundry Executive Producer Garrett Braren and Managing Director James Sweigert, and said he’s excited to join an organization with an amazing production staff and talented artists.
“It was a team I wanted to be a part of,” he said.
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