•HARVEY MARCO JOINS JWT NY> Harvey Marco, formerly ECD at Saatchi & Saatchi, Los Angeles, is moving across the country to take up the chief creative officer role at JWT, New York, the agency confirmed this week. Marco, who has been instrumental in developing the creative on Saatchi's Toyota account for the past five years, begins working at JWT in September, and will report to co-presidents Rosemarie Ryan and Ty Montague. His last day at Saatchi & Saatchi is August 15. "We've nearly doubled in size in the past four years," said Ryan in a statement. "This latest leadership evolution will further allow us to build on the momentum and continue to innovate for the agency and our clients."
http://www.jwt.com

•TOMATO RESURFACES STATESIDE AT BELIEVE> After four years of working without US production representation, international creative collective Tomato has found a new home with Believe Media, which is planning to undertake a variety of ventures with the group. They range from traditional commercial and film direction to branding, in-store design, large-scale installations, mobile and web projects. This month they have convened in New York for the opening of Beautiful Burnout, an ongoing "artjam" exhibition at Jacobson Howard Gallery. To find out more about their future plans, we rang up the Tomatoes at Believe's New York office. Click here for the Q&A.

•D&AD RETROSPECTIVE AT LONDON DESIGN FESTIVAL> The complete set of the D&AD's awards Annuals will be on display for the first time at the London Design Festival next month. The exhibition "Pencil - 45 Years of Creativity from the D&AD Annuals" will open with a private view on September 18 and run until Sept. 23 at the Royal College of Art. D&AD's past presidents have selected their favorite work from their term for viewing alongside the accompanying Annual. The 2008 Annual, designed by Neville Brody, will also be launched at the private viewing.
http://www.dandad.co.uk

The deadline to enter work to the Kinsale Sharks Awards has been extended to August 14, 2008.
http://www.kinsalesharks.com

Blink, London has signed viral director Ben Wheatley for exclusive UK representation.
http://www.blinkprods.com

Los Angeles-based editorial company Rock Paper Scissors and VFX company a52 have launched design company Elastic and hired Alex Gorodetzki as executive producer and Trevor Shepard as creative director of design.
http://www.elastic.tv

Digital agency Colossal Squid Industries has launched in Chicago. It's headed up by founders Steve Slivka, former SVP/GCD at Arc Worldwide and Patrick Berry, former VP/director of emerging media for Leo Burnett/Arc Worldwide Production.
http://www.colossal-squid.com

New York-based R/GA has launched digital-focused branding consultancy R/GA Brand Design, led by director of brand design, Marc Shillum.
http://www.rga.com

Amsterdam Worldwide has promoted Nicolette Lazarus to the role of business development director and Hazel Livingstone to the client services director position.
http://www.amsterdamworldwide.com

New York-based production/design shop FlickerLab has partnered with Copenhagen-based Gonzoft to launch GO, a proprietary "digital puppet platform" that offers real-time performance of animated characters in any style, including 2D, 3D and stop motion. With GO, a producer can cut between scenes with a touchscreen, while a performer can control movements of an animated character with a standard game controller and, while speaking into a microphone, can have the voice performance lip-synched. For a demo of the technology, click here.
http://www.flickerlab.com

Sea Level VFX in Venice, CA has hired VFX artists/supervisors Christopher Noellert and Glen Bennett and executive producer Steve Reiss.
http://www.sealevelvenice.com

Smoke & Mirrors, New York has added VFX supervisor/flame artist Nicholas Seresin to its roster.
http://www.smoke-mirrors.com

LA's Rhythm + Hues has added director Timothy Kendall to its roster.
http://www.rhythm.com

New York-based prodco Mechanism Digital has signed director Walter Krudop.
http://www.mechanismdigital.com

Wilfrid Park in Toronto has hired Joni Dick as director of sales.
http://www.wilfridpark.com

MAD Films Inc. in Toronto has signed on Parisian director Yannick Saillet for Canadian spot rep.
http://www.madfilmsinc.com

LA-based music and sound design company BWN has acquired audio post house Outlaw, a full service audio post house in Hollywood.
http://www.outlawsound.com

Chicago-based marketing agency Schafer Condon Carter has acquired independent ad agency Romani Bros.
http://www.sccadv.com

Elias Arts in Santa Monica has promoted Kenny Segal to composer/chief studio engineer.
http://www.eliasarts.com