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David Bates

Design

Emotive and iconic. These two words encompass the two basic principles that motivate and drive my passion for design excellence. Deliver on the emotional which imprints as memorable. Through social popularity, it earns iconic status.

I personally believe that design plays a very important role within our contemporary society. It can serve to celebrate our greatest intellectual advancements as much as it can fall prey to our darkest, most unimaginable thoughts. I am impressed with its sheer power to mold minds and create movements.

With that said, I treat design as if I were building a sandcastle on the beach. I invest time to dream, create, build, take criticism from bystanders and ultimately watch everything get swept away in the rising tide of the new day.

Let's go make sandcastles together.

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David Bates

November 2,2011

The Future... 0

Two visions from the past and one from the present. 1. 1969. With a young Al Gore, online at the helm of an electronic correspondence machine. 2. 1995 from Apple. Emphasis on education and the announcement that Shakespeare did not write his own plays. 3. 2011 Microsoft. A prediction that "touch" is the way of the future. Get out, really?

October 23,2009

Never Be Without Great Coffee 0

Over a year ago, Starbucks approached us to help develop a category-breaking new ready-brew sub-brand within the Starbucks portfolio. Our team went to work creating a strategic platform that delivered the gasoline to fuel the creative platform.

March 13,2008

Just Say "Know" To Bushmeat 0

In an effort to raise local awareness, I have been working on an assortment of art for a future installation. All of the profit from the sale of the items will go toward the Dian Fossey Gorilla Foundation.

February 29,2008

Where were you in 1987? 0

I love this! K2 resurrected their very first snowboard graphic done by us, Hornall Anderson. Believe it or not this was created before my first tour of duty, by our own fearless leader, Jack Anderson.