Martin served the agency's creative plans director and chairman, while Steve Martin was the company's president and CEO. He soon opened a new agency, Hawley Martin Partners, with his brother, Stephen H. He remained in advertising after leaving The Martin Agency. The rest of the advertising team agreed with Martin's suggestion, leading to the iconic Virginia is for Lovers campaign. Martin publicly credited Robin McLaughlin, an advertising copyeditor, with writing the original tagline, "Virginia is for history lovers." Martin approved of McLaughlin's work, but suggested that they omit the word "history" from the slogan. He was a member of the team which created the slogan. Martin is perhaps best known as the " brainchild" behind the famous Virginia is for Lovers tourism campaign, which was first launched in 1969. David Martin retired from The Martin Agency in 1988, two years after selling the ad agency. (In turn, Scali, McCabe, Sloves was later acquired by the Interpublic Group of Companies). His company Martin's until 1986, when The Martin Agency was sold to Scali, McCabe, Sloves. In 1975, Martin and Woltz agreed to divide the firm, which Martin renamed The Martin Agency. Martin and business partner, George Woltz, founded their ad agency, Martin & Woltz, in 1965. Martin was promoted to partner and vice president of account services within the company. He moved back to Richmond, Virginia, in 1956 to take a position with Cargill & Wilson. He briefly worked in New York City during his early career, where he worked as a television producer, creating live content for The Today Show and The Tonight Show on NBC. He then joined the staff of VanSant Dugdale, an ad agency based in Baltimore, where he drew storyboards and wrote scripts for television commercials. Martin's career after college began as an editorial cartoonist for a newspaper published once a week. Martin obtained his bachelor's degree in social science in 1952 from Hampden–Sydney College in Hampden Sydney, Virginia. He attended Thomas Jefferson High School in Richmond. His father, Hawley Phillips Martin, worked as the director of advertising and communications for the Southern States Cooperative and later became the Richmond branch of a Washington D.C. My works are not heavily planned in advance, and are usually painted in a stream of consciousness technique using my own photography or imagination for the subject matter luckily this technique results in unexpected, and sometimes, revealing pieces.Martin was born in Tucson, Arizona, on April 19, 1930. My pieces often contain hidden private jokes or secret messages, or even simple humorous/futuristic cityscapes. Many of my pieces are layered, etched, scratched, splattered, and scraped, resulting in a depth of textures, both bold and subtle color applications and washes, and vague symbols and figures, while others may be only slightly off from realism. I was greatly Influenced by my painting instructor Gary Pruner, and I tend to focus mainly on bold pieces with hyper-pigmented impasto and some form of abstraction. After my first figure drawing class, I decided to focus exclusively on art. Inspired by these wonderful artists and educators, I returned to school to study drafting, landscape design, and fine art. It has allowed me the opportunity to meet and occasionally collaborate with many local artists such as ceramicists Deborah Pittman, Donna Billick, and Bunny Jean Cunningham, painters such as Marie-Therese Brown, Andrea Johnston, and Binuta Sudhakaran, as well as dozens of breakout artists through my Studios, Cobalt Salon & Gallery, and All That/Hair Artistry. My art and writing have been irrevocably affected by my thirty plus years as a stylist and gallery owner in the lovely, and beautifully quirky town of Davis, Ca.
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