Strategic thinker, client whisperer, free-range Creative Director. I love winning and growing business. I love leading teams of fellow tinkerers and explorers. I love creating narratives that bring meaning to brands that lack it. To clients and colleagues, I'm known for smart thinking up-front, and equally insightful creative output later; for mining assignments to quickly unearth the most meaningful nugget — not just finding what's true, but making it matter; and for being someone who truly does live, breath, and sleep this stuff. I'm a Texas Creative grad, a former New Yorker, and a veteran of agencies large and small. I've produced integrated work across disciplines for large brands with household names, as well as for niche players with bigger dreams than budgets. I've learned a ton, been lucky to be able to apply it over a long career, and still feel the giddy tingle of excitement when the eureka moment hits.
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Noah Davis
Creative Director / Art Director / Brand Therapy
Austin-based, Zoomable to anywhere
email: noah@yesandnoah.com
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2025 — Current
Yes & Noah
Direct-to-Client Creative Marketing Consultant
Offer creative and strategic marketing support on an as-needed basis. Yes&Noah is the semi-official business name for a solo operation focused on powering up clients' internal teams without having to go through traditional agency hassles — scopes, markups, overages, etc. It's essentially me routing my accumulated skills, taste and experience directly towards my client's needs, serving their goals for growth rather than those of an agency who would typically charge 3x for the same offering, with far less commitment.
This model lets me maintain close relationships with people and businesses I genuinely care for — values that can't survive in most agency/client relationships, having been replaced by more transactional approaches. So far it's been a welcome relief for all parties.
Accounts: Just a few, really good people.
Multiple Engagements, September 2024 — March 2025
McGarrah Jessee
Austin, TX
Freelance Creative Director / Art Director
Contributed to campaigns for multiple teams across the agency, providing platform-level concept thinking, as well as art direction, brand design and copywriting to several of McJ's most important existing clients and new business pitches over a very busy three-month period in late '24.
Accounts: Frost Bank; Whataburger; Deep Eddy Vodka; 2HR Learning; Various pitches
September 2017 — September 2024
Door No. 3
Austin, TX
Executive Creative Director
Responsible for all agency creative product. Mediator, multitasker, overseer of creative machinery from concept to completion. Led a small-but-mighty team of art directors, writers and designers to sustained agency growth and too many new business wins to count. Un-tangler of blurry objectives and other marketing vagaries; Translator of babble into truthiness; Team builder, team player; Deep commitment to strategy going in, quality going out; Quick distiller of problems into pathways; Maintained a full-time hands-on, brain-on approach.
Accounts: Baylor Scott & White Health, Malk Organics, Texas.gov (Deloitte), Beef (National Cattlemen's Beef Association), T3 Micro, First United Bank, Riverside Resources, Mighty Swell, Maine Root, American Bank, Centennial Bank, Northstar Financial, First Care Health Plan, ShipWorks/Shipping Easy, Austin Humane Society, Cintra/Texpress Lanes
Before that...
Swizzle Collective
Austin, TX
Co-owner, Co-creative director
Concept, creation and execution of traditional and digital advertising, marketing materials of every scale and scope, videos, content, social, freelance creative services and God knows what else for hard-working Austin creative marketing agency.
Before that...
Foote, Cone & Belding / FCB
New York, NY
Sr. Art Director > Creative Director > SVP Group Creative Director
Creative Director: Kraft Foods, Inc. Managed projects and personnel for many Kraft brands, with primary attention paid to Oreo and sub-brands. Acted as primary client contact, maintaining strong relationships with client-side personnel from brand managers to advertising directors. Reported directly to agency chief creative officer. Also contributed to other Kraft assignments for ECDs as needed, including Planter's, Wheat Thins, Chips Ahoy and others.
Creative Director: Gevalia. Manage all day-to-day creative duties and personnel working on the American retail launch of the Swedish coffee brand. Led winning business pitch to reclaim the account.
Creative Director: Jamaica tourism. Oversaw creation and production of all creative executions including digital, out-of-home and broadcast television.
Other Accounts: U.S. Census, Starbucks, Nivea, Diet Coke, Samsung, AT&T, Dex Media, Qwest Communications, Trane, Milk-Bone, International Rescue Committee
Before that...
Partners & Shevack / The Wolf Group
New York, NY
Art Director
Accounts: Haagen Dazs, Aamco Transmissions, Cook’s Champagne, New York State Tourism, HSBC, Scott’s Lawn Care
Before that...
Grey Advertising
New York, NY
Art Director
Accounts: Domino’s Pizza, Red Lobster, Dairy Queen, Kohler, Hasbro, Topps, Post Cereals, Topps, Bazooka Gum
Education
University of Texas at Austin
B.S., Advertising, Creative Sequence
Miami Ad School Digital Reboot
Digital Training
Miami Ad School, Brooklyn, NY
Blingy Award Recognition
Comm Arts Annual
One Show Annual
Lürzer's Archive
Cannes Press Lions Finalist
USA Today Superbowl top ten
Addy Gold (Multiple)
Creativity Platinum (TV & Print)