Design Strategy for Creative Professionals
About Me
A course by Douglas Davis , Strategist, Author, and Professor
About the video: About Me
Overview
“I'm not a performer but I do have something to say, so I'll get up there. I'm not an author but I have a point of view, so I'll write. I'm not an athlete but I have a goal, so I'll train. I'm not the best but I can try, so I'll work. I'm just like you, a creative looking for an outlet. ”
In this video lesson Douglas Davis addresses the topic: About Me , which is part of the Domestika online course: Design Strategy for Creative Professionals. Discover the Creative Strategy Framework, which explores the business side of design, and learn to develop creative solutions to marketing challenges .
Partial transcription of the video
“ About Me Hello, my name is Douglas Davis, and I'm an author, strategist, and professor. I'm based in Brooklyn, New York. Welcome to my Domestika course. My educational background is that I studied art at a young age. I went to Hampton University, which is a historically black college in Virginia to study graphic design and photography. That's where I got my BA. After leaving there, I went to New York, that's when I moved to Brooklyn. I applied to Pratt Institute and got my master's in Communication Design. A couple of years after that, I applied to NYU to get my second master's in Integra...”
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Course summary for: Design Strategy for Creative Professionals
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Business, Design Management, Presentation Design
Douglas Davis
A course by Douglas Davis
Douglas Davis is an award-winning designer and strategist. As a child, he was always creative and dreamed of becoming a cartoonist thanks to his love of drawing. He later went on to study graphic design and photography at Hampton University as well as communication design at Pratt Institute. However, he credits his education to his first day on the job as a designer.
Since then, Douglas has worked for clients including HSBC, The Economist, Campbell’s, Ruby Tuesday, Deutsche Bank, Liberty Mutual, Dassault Falcon, Maserati, Scholastic, Aveeno, and Illy. He has also taught strategy and design at institutions like NYU, SVA, Pratt Institute, Maryland Institute College of Art, and the City University of New York. Douglas has published a book, Creative Strategy and the Business of Design, and worked on projects including Imported from Brooklyn, a story about finding the path to possible, which received over 15 million views and was nominated for two Emmy Awards.
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