RETIRED FROM ADVERTISING
Kim has left the advertising industry and will spend her senior years creating fine art. Watch for new artwork to come.
FULLTIME
Wunderman Thompson / Wunderman / Adpeople / Enfatico, Associate Creative Director/Sr. Art Director, Austin, TX. 4/2008 to 2/2011, 2012 to 2022. Creative direction, art direction and design for broadcast, print and digital projects. Clients: Dell, Best Buy, Center for Child Protection, Carolyn’s Mobile Cat Grooming.
Wunderman, Associate Creative Director, NYC. 8/98 to 6/03. Supervised staff of 8 plus freelance. Clients: AT&T, AT&T Broadband, AT&T Worldnet, Kraft, Pepsi One, Learning Leaders, Citibank, Army, new business pitches for Celebrity Cruise Lines, Viagra, Bank One smart credit card.
FCB/Leber Katz, Senior Art Director, NYC. 10/88 to 2/92. Clients: Citibank, Diners Club, Dun & Bradstreet, Woman’s Day.
FREELANCE
AdPeople / Enfatico Dell, Best Buy, Center for Child Protection
GSD&M AT&T, Air Force, Hallmark, Small Smiles
Saatchi & Saatchi Healthcare Ameriprise, NEXIUM, Pulmicort
RTCRM Vanguard, GlaxoSmithKline
Draft Advertising Verizon, Verizon Business DSL, Bank of America
Hill Holliday NY Verizon
DDB Needham Digital Computers
Ammirati Puris Lintas UPS, Compaq
McCann Direct Buick
Kirshenbaum & Bond Citibank
FCB/Leber Katz Merck
Lord Dentsu & Partners NY Telephone
Chapman Citibank, AT&T, AT&T Universal Card
Ogilvy & Mather IBM
Chiat/Day National Car Rental, Mitsubishi Electronics
Scholastic Books Scholastic educational products
Beber Silverstein Miami NCL Cruise Lines, Equal Rights Amendment
COLLEGE
B.A in Visual Communications, Florida State University, 1977
BIO
Kim worked for many years at Wunderman Thompson (formerly Wunderman, formerly AdPeople, formerly Enfatico). For Dell, Kim has worked on every line of business with good success. Her tasteful design style is being applied to Dell’s print, online and video work. Her campaign for the Center for Child Protection got a lot of attention in the press and social media and increased Austin’s awareness of this resource in the fight against child abuse. She created hundreds of emails and site ads for Best Buy, making the clients so happy they stayed around for much longer than they had originally contracted.
Before that, Kim was the first full-time Associate Creative Director at AdPeople/Enfatico. Young & Rubicam sought out Kim in April 2008 and hired her to help build a new global agency for a very big client: Dell. During her three years as ACD, she hired and managed the Austin creative team, and created global advertising campaigns for both online (site ads, emails, banners) and offline (print ads, catalogs, inserts, direct mail). And made a lot of fans at Dell.
In 2007, Kim was brought to Austin by GSD&M as freelance Creative Director. AT&T snapped up Kim’s ideas for DRTV. And her direct mail concepts for Air Force and Hallmark were instrumental in bringing mail assignments into the DRTV group.
Previously, Kim spent years in NYC, where she freelanced all over town, at Chiat/Day, Ogilvy & Mather, Ammirati Puris Lintas, Kirshenbaum & Bond, DDB Needham, Saatchi & Saatchi, RTCRM, to name a few. Kim was a full-time Senior Art Director at FCB for 4 years, juggling assignments on Diners Club, Citibank, and Dun & Bradstreet. She developed a reputation for being smart, efficient, organized, fast and helpful — a real team player. And for being able to create beautiful presentations that always wowed the clients.
1998-2003, Wunderman hired Kim as Associate Creative Director to run a group of 8 creatives plus freelancers, working on a variety of accounts including AT&T, Citibank, and Kraft. Kim was considered to be one of their top strategic and creative thinkers, often participating in new business pitches. Her employees were happy and motivated, and they produced a great deal of work. As she was managing her group, she also managed to work on many projects herself. She likes to roll up her sleeves, that’s a fact. Her work for AT&T helped to successfully launch their local phone service in Texas, New York and New Jersey. Kim’s in-store merchandising for Citibank won awards, as well as her digital campaign for the Army, and direct marketing for Kraft. She was the brain-child behind a successful campaign to the college market for Citibank credit cards that ran for over 4 years.
Kim started her career in Miami Florida, where she came up through the ranks, first as a studio artist for various agencies in Miami: Beber Silverstein & Partners, and Ryder & Schild. Then as a junior art director/studio artist for Frank Schulwolf, one of Miami’s top award winning ad pros.