I’m David Montrose, a London-based multi-disciplined senior creative with 16 years experience helping brands stand out.
While my main love and focus is all things digital, over the last two decades I have designed and directed everything from film and animation, on and offline advertising, photo shoots with high-profile musicians from bands such as Arctic Monkeys, Metallica, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Cream, to print editorial, social, native apps, large-scale responsive web and enterprise-scale design systems for startups and FTSE100s including Vodafone, Sky, Tesco, Fender, British Heart Foundation and Sage.
Previously part of the senior management team of 65-person full-service Top 100 Independent Agency, I am an experienced team leader, and believe in creating cultures where both collaboration and individual creativity is encouraged.
You can currently find me at Valtech in London.
While I’m not at work, you can find me hanging out with my wife and two kids in Oxfordshire, or producing music, playing guitar and drums, generally pretending I’m not a failed musician.
For past experience and to read nice things people have said about me, you can find me on Linkedin.
Skills & Experience:
- Agency Senior Management
- Agency operations
- Art, Design & Creative Direction
- Multi-disciplined team leadership
(art, design, copy, dev) - Conceptual Development
- On and offline advertising
- Client / stakeholder consultation
- Project scoping – time/budgeting
- Creative/project workshops
- Digital design systems
- Responsive & native UI, UX, prototyping
- Interaction and motion design
- Branding & identity development
- Content and creative strategy
- Print & digital editorial design
- Copywriting
- Client / stakeholder consultation
- Creative brainstorming & workshops
- Project scoping / P&L
- Product & portrait photoshoot direction – studio & location
- Adobe CC – PS, ID, AI, AE; Sketch, InVision
- Front-end dev – CSS3, HTML5, jQuery
A few brands I’ve worked with
