# David William Scott

> Creative Director, Hands-on Designer, and frequent Copywriter for Global Brand, Marketing, Comms + Events 🤘🏻Artist 💪🏻 Athlete

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/davidwilliamscott

Me, Creative Director, Designer, and frequent Copywriter rolled into one creative human for Global Brand, Marketing, Comms + Events Teams. True story. Maker and Mentor, always. Community Enthusiast. Artist and Athlete, everyday.

Shepherding Story & Design
I arrived at design to tell stories for brands, solve business problems, and be a student of brilliant communication everywhere—visual or verbal. Good design for clients, consumers, customers, cohorts, community, or constituents. And good design for the businesses speaking to them. 

My career shepherding nowadays can lead creative from the front as a Driver, and/or help support Brand & Marketing teams as a hands-on Do'er. I make work every day, concept, write, and present ideas forward to our business partners; Founders, Board of Directors, CMOs, SVP/VPs, Brand Marketing, Comms/PR, Heads of Brand, Heads of Design and Marketing, and Program Leads. I help land the budget and produce the work for launch. 

Simply put, I make ideas into action that drive results for business.

Thankful for years of building, launching, and restructuring agency services — in-house or agency teams alike. And given hybrid work vibes, I work in offices, studios, co-working spaces, from home, or remote. Down for travel.

Brand Experience
Nike, Apple, Tesla, Electronic Arts, Meta, Google, DocuSign, StubHub, Stripe, eBay,  Indeed, LinkedIn, GoDaddy, Intel, HP, AMEX, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Visa, Accel, Avery Dennison, Williams-Sonoma, Office Depot/Max, United Airlines, Dignity Health, Option B — Sheryl Sandbergs’s non-profit, Life Time Athletic Country Clubs, and Dave.

## Work Experience
### Embedded Creative Director, Global Brand Studio Teams + In-House Agencies @ David Scott Design Office
Jan 2017 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area & Remote
Creative Director, Design Manager & working Designer — Builder, Driver and Partner alongside Global Brand, Marketing & Product teams, moving visual brand systems, content and marketing forward to meet the needs of the business - in-house and agency teams alike. Other functions: Creative/Design Lead, Team Lead/Department Head and People Manager — 1-5 person teams and agency management. 

Average length of strategic freelance roles: 5-7 months working with large brands-to-startups.

Agencies:

— Jack Morton Worldwide - Meta
— Supermoon - Upgrade (startup)
— Skylight Collective - GoDaddy
— Good People - Mad Lilly (startup)
— AnalogFolk - Nike Football, US
— Landor - Avery Dennison, FHLBank, Workonomy, United Airlines & Frito Lay
— Feed Agency - North America clients
— Eleven, Inc. - Dignity Health, SFO Airport w/ Gensler
— Firewood - LinkedIn
— Emotive Brand - Facebook, San Francisco Bay Coffee & Lyra Health (startup)
— MKTG - Facebook & Stripe

In-House Brand Teams:

— Wolf Games (TV Producer Dick Wolf’s family)
— TechNet
— Arena Club (startup)
— Google - REWS Team
— Life Time Fitness, Inc.
— Dave, Inc. (fintech startup to IPO)
— Electronic Arts
— StubHub
— Accel Venture Capital: US, London & India
— DocuSign
— Nearlist (startup)
— Stok
— Option B, Sheryl Sandberg’s non-profit (former COO, Meta) 

Smaller Scale Clients (working with Founders):

— Stick & Ball, sustainable luxury brand
— Sierra Hotel, sustainable fashion brand

### Creative Director, Brand & Fractional Design Team Lead @ Arena Club
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
⚡️Brand Sprint Workshop Client

Creative Director, Workshop Faciltator, working Designer: Strategy, Art & Copy — Over 3 phases, re-envisioned and rebuilt all aspects of the visual identity system (VIS-ID), and ultimately provided Fractional creative services advising the Design Team + special projects.

Phase 1: Working closely with the Co-Founders; Derek Jeter, Brian Lee & Jessie Glass, facilitated a multi-day immersive brand sprint workshop (IRL): category research, competitive brand audit, emotive storytelling, and iterative daily design/proof of concepts. This future-forward approach positioned the company to be a leader in the secondary market of the highly competitive sports collectibles category. The ultimate workshop deliverable: a compelling brand book communicating the new vision of the brand, creative strategy, and the brand narrative. 

Phase 2: Per the new strategy, and retaining some heritage brand elements via the Co-Founders, a new design language was established and applied to all Marketing channels and Product Design: CRM, social, print, retail packaging, events, marketplace website, mobile app, TV, and flagship digital products (Slab Packs). This also includes direction for event production agencies, and motion graphics contractors.

Developed new copywriting, style and tone, tagline, typography/fonts, design system, photography and trading card art direction, digital products look/feel + icon system, robust brand book/style guide, and team training + onboarding new Design Team members.

Phase 3: Fractional creative services and on-going advisory for the Design Team (Brand + Product): reviewing creative, sharing inspo, and competitor creative, teaching best practices, up-skilling craft, presentation techniques, and mentoring/coaching. Weekly Design Office Hours were also run for the team. All while handling special projects for the Head of Marketing with creative approvals by the Co-Founders.

### Founding Partner @ KIND/RED
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Developed by Musa Tariq, I joined as a Founding Partner to help build a people-first mentorship community centered on kindness, growth and connection. Currently focused on Marketing, Strategy, Media, Producers/PM's, Talent, Account, Comms professionals + Creatives & Creative Ops (for now).

Membership through referral only.

### Founding Circle Community Member, Design Leadership @ Arena
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Arena is a community platform for 1000s of professionals in sports, media & entertainment.

Every week, members receive curated intros that lead to 1:1 meetings and new opportunities. Our golden rule: when you match, you meet.

Members work across leagues, studios, teams, agencies, brands, labels, and publishers - spanning every corner of sports, media, and entertainment. From the NBA, NFL, and MLB to Netflix, Warner Bros., and ESPN, to agencies like WME and Wasserman, Arena brings together decision-makers, creators, award winners, and rising leaders across the industry.

### Community Member, Design Leadership @ Sports Business Ventures
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Sports Business Ventures (SBV) is a dynamic platform dedicated to advancing careers in the sports industry. It connects aspiring and established professionals through resources like The Playbook and our mentorship marketplace, offering access to workshops, coaching, and networking opportunities designed to foster growth and success.

### Community Member, Brand Design @ Design Executive Council
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Design Executive Council (DXC) is the premier membership network for senior design executives shaping the world’s most influential companies. Members lead experience design organizations responsible for over $1 trillion in annual revenue across major public and private enterprises.

### Community Member, Design Leadership @ Mixing Board
Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Mixing board is a community of brand and communications leaders that provide their expertise, mentorship and help with building teams to organizations looking for smart advice and fast tracks to solutions.

Our community members are CMOs, Heads of Comms, seasoned Brand Strategists, Social and Content experts, Community Builders, Researchers, Speechwriters and Policy Veterans. We share insight and experience, supporting and learning from each other, seeking to elevate our practice and the work.

### Community Member, National & TEDxSF @ TED Conferences
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
TED’s mission is to discover and champion the ideas that will shape tomorrow. Powerful ideas, powerfully presented, can move us to feel something, to think differently, to take action and create a brighter future.

TED finds these powerful ideas across disciplines and around the globe, from people who passionately seek a deeper understanding of the world and want to make a difference in it. TED’s spotlight, and its engaged, open-minded audience, help these ideas to create real impact: to shift one person’s perspective, to make a difference within a community or to spark global transformation. 

Ideas change everything.

### Community Member, Design Leader Tier @ Design Bay Area
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
DesignBayArea is a platform dedicated to promoting design and amplifying the voices of the California design community, and those in adjacent fields, to create economic opportunities by fostering the local and international community.

### Founding Community Member, Design Leadership @ Comms People
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
The business school comms people never got. At its core, the mission is simple: Help comms professionals step out of the shadows of job titles and build something of their own. This isn’t just about getting clients—it’s about building a practice, a platform, and a brand that grows.

### Community Member, Design Leadership @ the co-lab
Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
The co-lab is a member-led, private global networking community for fashion, beauty, wellness, retail, and consumer luxury professionals.

### Founding Community Member, SF @ The Motoring Club
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
The Motoring Club is a destination for the modern-day car enthusiast. Founded in 2019 as a members-only social club based in Los Angeles, now open in San Francisco. TMC is equal parts club, (member drives, events & co-working) and a public-facing retail coffee shop & cafe, and lifestyle brand.

themotoringclub.com 
motoring.coffee

### Mentor, Design Leadership @ Talk To A Creative Director
Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Started by a Creative Director, Copy, TTACD is simply a place where creatives of any level can talk to an ad industry Creative Director, Strategist or Recruiter. For free.

### Mentor, Design Leadership @ adplist.org
Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
ADPList is a global community of Mentors and Learners — born in 2021 to democratize mentorship for all, and has since grown to 16,000+ Mentors who have mentored more than 100 million minutes in 141 countries across the globe. Mentors on ADPList are everyday people who share their knowledge to elevate careers.

ADPList believes career happiness should be a pursuit available for humanity. #BeMore

### Creative Leader, Neol @ Neol
Jan 2023 – Present | London, England, United Kingdom
Neol is a Community-powered platform for audacious creative minds to do the best work of their lives.

Neol’s platform empowers creative leaders with the technology, people, and processes they need to deliver impactful projects from anywhere at scale. As a Creative Leader at Neol, my ambition is to spearhead real change in the following domains; purposeful brands, the future of work, and climate.

Neol is part of the Kyu Collective portfolio that includes agencies: IDEO, SYPartners, Godfrey Dadich Partners, ATÖLYE, Upstatement, Yard, Sid Lee, and more.

### Community Member, Design @ Creative Lunch Club
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
The Creative Lunch Club is a community for people working in the creative industries.

Whether you are a graphic designer, a photographer, a marketer, or a filmmaker, the Creative Lunch Club gives you the chance to regularly meet other creatives in your city for lunch.

### Community Member, Design @ The Breakfast
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
A global community of modern creatives. Meet new people over breakfast. Not dating or networking. Just breakfast.

### Creative Director, Creative Lead, Experiential + Virtual Events @ Jack Morton Worldwide
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area
Creative Director, Creative Lead & working Designer, Meta Account — Creative Team Member leading design for select experiential and virtual events - internal and external-facing. Working alongside the agency team and Meta clients providing; storytelling, concept presentations, and final design specs for production to extend Meta’s global brand into events for different audiences around the world. 

Experiential event creative includes; Activation design thinking, floorplans, physical structures, stage design, print, swag, video design, and content design (slides). Virtual event creative includes; video shoots, screen design & design systems in/around speaker and graphics content, motion direction, sound direction, invitation & promotion design.

People Manager of freelancers, direction for partner agencies, co-managing projects with Producers, client-facing.

### Creative Director & Team Lead, Design Team @ Godfrey Dadich Partners
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area
Creative Director, Team Lead & People Manager — Design leader alongside Head of Design & Partner, helping drive design craft, storytelling for clients, and team culture and engagement among the multi-disciplinary creative team (15) specializing in Editorial Design, Advertising and Brand VIS-ID. 

Godfrey Dadich Partners was co-founded by Scott Dadich, former Editor in Chief, Wired Magazine. GDP is part of the Kyu Collective's iconic portfolio of agencies; IDEO, SYPartners, and more.

The Team Lead role was a combination of internal and external focuses. Internally; Nurturing creative team culture, mentoring, managing people, team process and agency engagement points with the Design Team, new business pitches, and agency brand design projects for the Founder and CEO. Re-invented monthly team gathering allowing it to be more interactive, inspirational and participatory. Externally; Managing client accounts and supervising team creative, account growth - scoping, workshops, ideation, and pitching new opportunities. Frequent copywriting for client presentation decks, positioning and selling creative work.

Client accounts:

— Indeed - Editorial Art & Design
— Tipalti - Advertising
— InterSystems - Video, Advertising, Social & Events

Account growth and increased budget spend for all three clients accounts was awarded during my tenure. I supervised three direct reports as a People Manager with the team working hybrid in/out of the office, and 100% remote. Worked and interacted with the majority of the Partners at the agency as a Team Lead.

### Creative Director, Brand & Special Projects @ Life Time Inc.
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco & Minnesota
⚡️ Brand Sprint Workshop Client

Creative Director, Workshop Facilitator, working Designer: Strategy, Art & Copy — Sprint ideation re-invigorated the storytelling for the brand: creative strategy, brand narrative, and visual identity system (VIS-ID), paving the way for a game changing agency brief. In addition to market launch creative and special projects,

Working closely with the Chief Creative Officer and Head of Brand Story, facilitated a multi-day immersive brand sprint workshop (IRL). This entailed: category research, competitive brand audit, emotive storytelling, and iterative daily design/proof of concepts. The goal was two-fold: 1. Bring LT's holistic world to life through new, enhanced, and strategic storytelling. 2. Future-proof against competitive brands and experiences in the category with similar price points. All with design parity for the category. The ultimate workshop deliverable: interim brand book communicating what was possible: creative strategy, brand narrative, and VIS-ID.

Developed new copywriting, brand signature (Athletic Resorts / Athletic Country Clubs) typography, color thinking, design system, photography style, and selects and a brand book. After an agency was selected to continue the thinking, the workshop insights and strategy become the creative brief to execute the full VIS-ID.

Special Projects:

—NYC Market Launch: Building on the workshop strategy, launched the brand in the New York City market for the first time. Set the brand tone for future properties opening as LT gains traction in the new market. 

—LT Living & Stay: Exploratory creative and messaging for a brand extension and new business unit: high-end residential living and hotel offering with LT Fitness and retail on the ground floor. 

—ESG Reporting: Drove new look/feel into long-form content in the form of ESG Reporting for LT's social good.

### Agency Leadership Team + Founding Community Member, Design @ Good People
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
Lead Community Member, Creative Consultant and Designer — Brand & Marketing, Creative Direction & Design for agency clients.

Good People is advancing cannabis and hemp for the people and the plant, providing consulting services for all aspects of the supply chain. A truly distributed remote agency across the US & Canada.

Agency Leadership Team (non-partner) with the Co-Founders, focused on the Good People brand and ethos for marketing, positioning, community on-boarding, content creation & copywriting, planning + more as the agency and client list grows. On-going business development creative support & storytelling.

### Creative Director, Brand & Platform @ Dave
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
Creative Lead and Designer, Art & Copy — In close collaboration with the Head of Design (Brand & Product), re-envisioning all aspects of the visual identity system, VIS-ID approaching an IPO.

Per a new brand strategy and tagline, and retaining some heritage elements via the Founder, a meticulous approach and process was implemented - weekly design reviews & sprints. Starting with comprehensive category color research, a subsequent competitive color strategy, new typography, design language, photography art direction, robust brand guidelines and design templates were written, created and regularly presented to the internal stakeholders - Founder and the Executive Leadership Team and C suite.

The VIS-ID work influenced all new product design and design system thinking. Worked with the Product Design Leads on font testing, color accessibility, and tokenization of elements in Figma. The thinking was extended to all marketing channels;  website, marketing, advertising, social, video, etc.

Executed strategic storytelling presentations for the Founder and the Executive Leadership Team, simplifying our process, and the visual story. Communicated with the Founder directly during the duration of the contract.

### Creative Director, Global Brand Marketing Transformation & Events @ Electronic Arts (EA)
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
Creative Lead and Founding Team Member — Newly created Marketing Transformation Team focused on re-inventing the Electronic Arts global brand, externally and internally.

Launch, lead and help operationalize the first in-house Global Design Studio. The Studio's charter is to actively design and extend the interim VIS-ID with new creative solves, design system additions and ideation for company-wide creative requests, employee resource groups, flagship events (digital per covid), special projects & Executive presentations and more. 

Close collaboration and coordination with all arms of the team (18) in a fast-paced startup like environment; Brand Strategy, Brand Marketing, Brand Management and Operations & Program Management. 

Run weekly Brand Office Hours as the Brand Creative Lead, addressing a wide variety of use cases for teams around the world and pro-actively communicate brand rollout timing and updates. Work with Operations to plan agency work streams, set timelines and project flow. Co-Creative Lead for external agency team alongside CD, Gaming. Developed a creative community of Designers & Creative Directors from different orgs. to co-develop new design, colab on projects, share knowledge and discuss on-going brand challenges and scenarios. 

Provide best practices and organizational systems for the new creative service - input briefs and active management of studio projects on Airtable. Identify new brand agencies as future partners as well as sourcing & hiring design talent.

### Creative Director, Creative Studio - Global Brand @ StubHub
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
Creative Lead and Designer, Art & Copy — Founding member of newly created Creative Studio (15 - Brand + Advertising creatives), developing a new visual identity system, VIS-ID. Reporting to the Executive Creative Director, I was charged with leading the brand-side VIS-ID, alongside new advertising and activations, and day-to-day Design Team management.

Our task was to transform a high volume, performance and growth-based brand, rooted in eCommerce, moving to an authentic, experiential-based brand without interrupting conversion. Working closely with Marketing partners/sponsors, led the VIS-ID creative process - rigorous 2.5 month sprint, project scheduling, creative resources, Executive and stakeholder presentations and associated production. Managed Creative Studio team members focused on marketing channels (performance ads, email, experiential/events) optimizing the VIS-ID creative into platforms for ads, early consumer testing validating the creative, and extending the design system into special programs, such as loyalty, interiors and events.

Supported the ECD with share-outs to all Department Heads, achieving buy in ahead of final creative presentation to the Brand President. Due to Covid, the approved VIS-ID brand guidelines were created, written and designed in two weeks  - over 100 pages of content.

### Creative Director, Brand, Communications & Events @ Accel
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area & Palo Alto, CA
Creative Lead and Designer, Art & Copy — Developed the global visual identity system in close partnership with the Head of Communications and Partner, Sameer Gandhi. Based out of the San Francisco and Palo Alto offices, and working with the London and India offices.

Revamped & ideated a new brand design system; creating new visual elements, typography, color palette, art direction for photography, custom illustration and portfolio logos integration for the Accel brand, social and various special programs and events; Accel India Podcast, Annual Founder Retreat, Salon Conferences and last minute IPO events and happenings.

Created brand guidelines (art & copy) for the new design system, specs, usage and templates for freelance designers and creative vendors; Accel brand, social creative, special anniversary monogram compendium and portfolio logo system.

Handled internal creative project requests of all shapes, sizes and deadlines from each office and the PR firm from social posts to event design. Coordinated with Admins and the Events Lead on best practices for printing and production of creative assets. Helped identify, source and coordinate outreach with new design agencies for future projects. Interacted and presented to the Partner regularly.

### Creative Director, Global Brand Creative & Events @ DocuSign
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
Creative Department Head & Designer — Co-led all aspects of a multi-disciplinary design team (15) working across all channels of Global Integrated Marketing - art & copy. Digital everything (from banners-to-email-to-social & more), integrated campaigns, print, events, content design & thought leadership pieces, HQ campuses, and events. High volumes of global creative requests. Worked closely with Project & Studio Management to organize and assign projects week-to-week and coordinate large asset projects with Program Managers/Owners in Marketing.

Co-led global rebrand design and transformation with Executive Creative Director (internal project — no agency), track successful project styles to include in new global brand guidelines, serve as Brand Liaison for Product Design team working on product redesign & new design systems, developing relationships with internal clients, stakeholders & Execs. as a Department Head, daily mentoring, support and SaaS product education for the design team. Provide team with the latest tools, resources and update studio infrastructure ex: on-boarding new photography sites, procuring studio materials, etc. 

Run twice weekly all team creative reviews and drive creative inspiration and share outs. Manage an active roster of freelancers - on-site and remote. Led direction of annual Developers conference and hack-a-thon.

### Design Director, Global Brand & Innovation Marketing + Experiential Events @ Visa
Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Innovation Office
Creative Department Head & Designer — Developed a new internal creative services arm within Marketing focused on delivering agency creative for the Brand & Marketing orgs. and various other teams - Comms/PR, Innovation & Strategic Partnerships, Digital Solutions and Sports Sponsorships, etc.

All creative was concepted, designed and produced in-house for future-forward initiatives, products and partnerships in innovation - digital, IoT, biometrics, wearables, POS, VR, etc. presented through experiential mediums and spaces. Managed and scheduled the creative workflow for all internal clients. Supported external agency-led projects with creative direction and sourced new creative vendors.

Designed & produced 20+ experiential events: 3D environmental design for interior spaces, floor plans, lighting, AV, programming stages, large format print, digital screens, custom patterns & graphics, car wraps, copywriting/naming, branded decor, premium giveaways and provided leadership for product demos.

Notable events: SXSW, Cannes, Super Bowl 50 & 51, NFL Draft & Olympic programming for Rio 2016

Developed creative and brand assets for all Marketing channels: identity, print, digital, social, new business & partner pitches, kiosk design, photo shoots, live action video shoots, product & program launch support & leadership. Example: Visa Developer launch.

Led Visa x NFL sponsorship creative efforts and Super Bowl 50 & 51 as a global sponsor of the league. Lead the look & feel for multi-channel sponsorship design system, advertising (non TV), POS materials, digital branding for stadiums and team & player VR content - storyboards, video graphics, art & sound direction. Supported various Visa x Olympic sponsorship design projects & events for Rio 2016.

Led eCommerce Marketing design for Visa Checkout, a new flagship digital product - desktop & mobile launch creative for over 35 retailers. Example brands: Starbucks, Dunkin’ Donuts, Gap, Under Armour, Orbitiz, Virgin, and Lyft.

### Creative Director, eCommerce - Houzz Shop @ Houzz
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco & Palo Alto, CA
Creative Lead & Designer — Analyzed all creative aspects of the eCom offering within the social/community focused site - visual design, UX, functionality, copy, photography, brand email and all forms of online advertising driving conversion supporting 200+ shopping categories for desktop and mobile. Analysis, strategy, visual design, site merchandising & marketing, and photography production processes & operations. 

Document all learnings and best practices from best-in-breed eCom brands and sites to implement for the new Houzz "Shop" launch. This included multi-channel seasonal & holiday selling tactics and merchandise marketing approaches.

Partner with the Retail Merchant team on eCom photography production processes and photo samples for photo shoots. Work with Editorial Team on photo concepts, thematic product selections, on-set shoot direction & production, styling & prop shopping, sourcing photographers and design systems & graphic looks for editorial selling - also driving conversion.

Structured a photo production operations plan, budgeting, eCom creative job descriptions (and Merchant Team production adds) and shoot space requirements & logistics. Integrated how existing Creative Team would be structured alongside the new eCom Photo Team.

Reported to the Founders and Chief Editor, Content.

### Director, Internet Creative - eCommerce, Social, CRM & Ad @ Williams-Sonoma, Inc.
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco Bay Area
Creative Department Head — Managed all facets of creative team (13) supporting 16+ shopping categories feeding into a robust digital marketing ecosystem; 1. website & editorial design, mobile, social properties 2. brand emails & online advertising 3. digital assets for products/skus & special projects 4. product photography (1,000+ images per season) 5. global site creative for country websites.

Upon arrival, re-structured team roles & internal workflow, project process & management
interaction points with other teams. Implemented key promotions, made full-time hires and freelance-to-FT conversions. 

Seasonal creative planning with editorial, website merchandising & operations, UX & IT teams. Developed guidelines for new design systems. Regularly presented seasonal creative; holiday design & product launches to Brand President, Exec. Brand Creative Director and VP’s. Team administration tasks included; offer letters, reviews, goal setting, mentoring, resource planning, contingency & team succession planning.

Highlights & Launches:

— Brand Tumblr launch
— Wedding Registry - first iPhone app
— Online ticketing partnership - Cooking Schools & store events
— Cooking School retail launch - US & Australia
— eCommerce country launch - Australia

### Associate Creative Director, Design Director & Sr. Art Director @ David Scott Design Office
Jan 2005 – Jan 2012 | San Francisco, CA Seattle, WA & Boulder, CO
Active Designer — Freelance creative roles ranging from working with in-house Brand & Marketing teams to agencies.   

In-House Teams:

eBay - Advanced UX Design Group
Intuit - Global Business Development Group 

Agencies:

— AKQA
— SapientRazorfish
— Carat Fusion
— Cibo Studios
— Code & Theory
— Crispin Porter + Bogusky
— Doremus 
— DraftFCB
— Duncan/Channon
— EVB
— Firewood
— Gyro Group
— IDEO
— Jess3
— Jumpstart Automotive Media
— Landor
—  Liquid Agency
— McCann Worldgroup
— Mekanism
— Modem Media
— Momentum Design Lab
— Odopod
— Organic
— Publicis Riney
— Sequence
— Stone Yamashita
— 215 McCann
— ZAAZ

### Senior Designer, Brand Team @ frog design
Jan 2003 – Jan 2005 | San Francisco Bay Area
Senior Designer, Identity, Print & Digital — Part of a small, but nimble brand design offering launched in frog's founding US office in Silicon Valley. The Founder, Hartmut Esslinger was based there. The Brand team extended frog's agency capabilities alongside Industrial Design and Strategy Teams. The agency's core competency was rooted in Industrial Design.

Projects included; visual identity, packaging, and retail & environmental signage. We closely collaborated with the Industrial Design Team when designing structures for retail or buildings, and campuses. Web design, competitive brand audits, new business pitches, and team project management was also included as part of the Senior Designer role.

Represented the Brand Team as a member of the frogThink design thinking workshop team — a multi-day in-person ideation workshop focused on lateral thinking to ideate new brands, products and services.

Clients: 

— Gateway Computers
— Grundig
— Symantec
— Philip Morris
— Seagate
— Nvidia

### Adjunct Faculty, Graphic Design @ Academy of Art University
Jan 2002 – Jan 2004 | San Francisco Bay Area
Design Instructor — Taught undergraduate Graphic Design studio classes for Freshman and Sophomore level students in the Graphic Design Building: 79 New Montgomery St., San Francisco. Classes: Design Fundamentals (Intro to Graphic Design), Packaging & Software - Adobe suite. 3/4 per classes weekly - 3hrs each. 

Tasks included: Class lectures, presentations & demos, lesson plans, syllabus creation, facilitated group critiques, mentoring and dedicated office hours for extra instruction and support.

High School Summer Workshops Member — Taught Graphic Design studio workshops for high school art students interested in studying Graphic Design. The multi-week workshops (3 hours each) concluding with an Art Show showcasing the classes design work.

### Board Member, Events Co-Chair @ AIGA San Francisco
Jan 2002 – Jan 2004 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Designer & Founding Member, Graphic Design Group @ Apple Computer, Inc.
Jan 2001 – Jan 2001 | Cupertino, California, United States
Designer & Founding Group Member — After working on the Apple account team at marchFirst (agency), I was among 25 people selected to join Apple when the agency declared bankruptcy. The Graphic Design Group was relaunched, after many years, as a creative service to the "Marcom" Group (Marketing & Communications) headed by Executive Creative Directors: Andy Dreyfus, Jill Savini and Hiroki Asai.

As a member of the group I worked on a wide range of new, highly confidential brand, and product launches being introduced to the market for the first time. This included: concepting, design, helping with production and misc. tasks.

Brand and Product Launches:

— First retail store packaging, Tysons Corner Mall, McLean, VA
— First iPod (Gen 1) packaging, design materials & photo shoot support
— First iPod (Gen 1) signage, Apple Campus, One Infinite Loop, Cupertino, CA

### Designer, Apple Account Team @ marchFIRST
Jan 2000 – Jan 2001 | San Francisco Bay Area
Designer — The creative team was divided into confidential and non-confidential projects. I was a member of the confidential projects and launches team working in a secured section of the agency office. This included: concepting, design and production support for a wide range of projects for digital/web and print/packaging.

Projects and Product Launches:

— UI/UX flows and page design, Apple.com eCommerce store
— Visual design for desktop applications, iDVD and iMovie
— Mighty Mouse launch, packaging design support

After joining the agency they declared bankruptcy one year after launching. The origin of the Apple Creative Team & Account came from a series of M&A's: CKS Partners to USWeb/CKS to marchFIRST.


## Education
### BFA in Graphic Design, School of Communication Arts
Savannah College of Art and Design

### President in AIGA Student Chapter (American Institute of Graphic Arts)
Savannah College of Art and Design

### Co-Captain in Men's Crew Team - Lightweight 4 & 8 Boats
Savannah College of Art and Design


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/davidwscott
- Website: https://www.dsdesignoffice.co
- Website: https://linktr.ee/dsdesignoffice

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