Oli Beale and Alex Houlder join Wieden + Kennedy London from WCRS.  They were placed in Campaign magazine’s ‘Top 10 Young
Creatives’ list in 2006 and were ‘Faces to Watch’ in 2007.  They have created award-winning
campaigns for clients including Brylcreem, Samaritans, The Navy, BMW and
Playstation.  

>Oli Beale says, ‘W&K seem like a bunch of seriously nice people
doing lots of seriously interesting things and we're seriously excited about
getting involved.’

Duncan
Bone
is another creative hire whose talent spans many platforms.

His work includes interactive design, motion graphics,
photography and film. He has worked on varied projects ranging from a Vodka
brand launch at the Cannes Film Festival to a feature film shot in Cuba,
directed by Lucy Mulloy.  He also worked with leading fashion photographers John
Lindquist and Can Evgin on two fashion films.

Paul
Skinner is an interaction designer and creative technologist who worked on
brands such as Shell, Marks &
Spencer and the Eden Project while at Digit.   

He now works across
all clients at Wieden + Kennedy, helping to engage brands with technologies new
and old in meaningful ways. In his own words, ‘Sometimes a new technology will
inform an idea, and sometimes it’s a case of “How the hell do we do that!?”  From there we can then prototype,
on-screen or with sensors and electronics’.

Scott
Dungate is a senior
creative, originally hailing from Australia, but with experience in Asian
markets, such as China, where he joined the W+K family, working on Nike. 

Scott moved
to the UK a year ago and now heads up creative on Nokia mobile computing,
having worked freelance on the business since his arrival at W+K London. Scott
says, 'I might be a little biased, but I think Nokia, with its business
grounded in such an interesting and exciting business sector, holds the most
creative potential in the agency.'

Rob Doubal and Lolly Thompson join Wieden + Kennedy London from their position as creative directors at Mother.

Rob Doubal and Lolly
Thompson join from their position as creative directors at Mother.  They are a team whose work spans all
platforms. Their work includes the Coca-Cola ‘yeah yeah yeah la la la’ campaign…

…and the famous ‘London Ink’
installation – the creation of two giant, tattooed
sculptures that appeared in London for two weeks to promote a series
about
tattoo artists for The Discovery Channel which won global acclaim. 

Laurence and Rob joined
forces at Mother three years ago. From Orange and The Observer to Stella Artois and
Coca Cola, they’ve worked across the majority of Mother’s accounts.  Between them they have been awarded at
D&AD, Cannes, The One Show, The Clios, The Andys, The Campaign Big Awards,
BTAA and The Aerials, Young Guns and the Guardian Media Innovation Awards. 

Laurence is one of Mother’s
longest standing members.  Over the
years he has been responsible for some of their seminal work.  Before joining Mother, Laurence was a
freelance illustrator and after graduating with an MA in communications design
from Central St Martins in 1999, joined digital hotshop Deepend as a Senior
Designer.  While there, he was
awarded a One Show award in Integrated Branding Campaign for Interbrew’s ‘Beer
is Life’ and was invited to lecture on Design Autonomy to an international
audience at the Berlin beta conference. 
In 1999 he was also named in Creative Review’s prestigious Creative
Future list, as the ‘Creative Future in Illustration’.   He started at Mother in 2001 and
has worked across the full range of their accounts, notably making it into the
National Portrait Gallery for his Powerade work in 2008. 

Rob joined Mother in 2006
after a long tenure in a small creative shop in Amsterdam called John Doe which was set up by a splinter
group of Kessels Krammer.  There he was responsible for creating
ads and content for MTV which saw the Benelux MTV network voted the most
creative of MTV’s networks worldwide. 
Arriving at Mother to work on the Orange account, his Snoop Dog Goldspot
was voted the 7^th funniest Ad of all time by Campaign magazine.

Beyond their agency
credentials, Laurence and Rob run the online idea provision service called
givemeanidea.com, and harbour a desire to fragment clients' budgets and
innovate truly creative work.

As
well as producing award-winning ad campaigns they have made short films and designed album and book
covers. 

Rob Doubal says, ‘We’ve always admired the work of W +
K London, and it’s a really interesting time to be joining a really great group
of people. We’re super excited about the job and over the moon that it cuts
down our commute from Liverpool Street station by 300 yards’.