David William Scott - Creative Director

David is a freelance Creative Director based in San Francisco, California. His area of expertise focuses on consulting with agencies and clients on all of the digital aspects of advertising campaigns and brand experiences. This ranges from User Experience, Interactive Design, Digital Engagement & Strategy for Social Media and Media Thinking.

He has worked with agencies such as frogdesign, marchFIRST, Stone Yamashita, Modem Media, Landor Associates, Avenue A /Razorfish, IDEO, Carat Fusion, Organic, McCann Worldgroup, Publicis, and Mekanism. His partial client list includes Gap, Apple, Gateway, HP, Motorola, Sony, Target, Phillip Morris, Seagate, Sun Microsystems, Bayer, Microsoft, Wells Fargo, Visa, AT&T, Adidas, Bank of America, LG and most recently, Electronic Arts.

A seasoned designer and design thinker, David is hired for strategic roles within agencies to lead creative teams, and work with Media, Producers and Production to ensure the best creative & experience comes to the surface. He has managed digital projects & campaigns in excess of 12 million dollars and broke multiple records on MySpace for successful brand communities & pages.

His campaign work in Social Media has been featured in Adweek, Brandweek and Proof Magazine published by Microsoft.

Blogs, Widgets, Wikis, iPhone applications, APIs, viral content, Facebook, MySpace, Flickr, YouTube, LinkedIn, Twitter and what’s to come, David has an insatiable appetite for social medias and new technologies that contribute to a positive user experience for brands, products & services. He is also an avid reader of design, advertising and digital trends.

David’s previous experience includes two influential roles, teaching at the Academy of Art University as an Adjunct Professor in the Graphic Design Department and holding a board position for the largest AIGA Chapter in the county – AIGA San Francisco. In these capacities, design events, education and advocacy were a large part of the daily functions in addition to speaking engagements and lectures. Prior to the Academy of Art and the AIGA, David held a full-time position at Apple working on confidential product launches such as the first generation iPod, the Apple Stores, the “pill” mouse and the first generation of iDVD.

Annual conference attendance includes the South by Southwest Interactive & Film Festival (SXSWi), Sundance & Slamdance Film Festivals and most recently, Project, a division of the Magic fashion trade show, PSFK Trends and ad:tech.

David holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design from the School of Communication Arts, Savannah College of Art & Design.