French Canadian by birth, David Lee attended the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence and started his career as a Graphic Designer in New York. After a short stint in New York, he traveled to Hong Kong for a year, then to back to Montreal where he worked as an Art Director for integrated advertising agency Sid Lee. Working on accounts such as Cirque du Soleil, MGM Grand, Redbull and Suzuki, his worked spanned across various media including TV, print and interactive.

After five years at Sid Lee, he became Associate Creative Director at AKQA San Francisco, where he was responsible for leading creative work on international clients such as Nike and Xbox.

Today David has joined Wieden+Kennedy London as Interactive Creative Director as of April of 2007 where is responsible for global creative work for Nokia, Nike and other clients. Throughout his career, David has been responsible for winning almost every industry award including the Cannes Cyber Lions, Direct Lions, One Show, LIAA, D&AD, New York Festivals, Eurobest and Digital Marketing Awards. His work has also been published in magazines such as Communication Arts and Applied Arts. Recently David has been recognized by the Art Directors Club Young Guns 5, nominated as a winner of the binnaual international competition which awards the most exciting young talent in visual communications. David has also been a judge at the One Show Interactive, a panel judge for the FWA, an instructor at Miami Ad School in San Francisco and gives frequent lectures at Hyper Island School of Design, Creative Review and other industry events.

Awards:

• Art Directors Club Young Guns 5

• 10 SOTD, 1 SOTM awards at the FWA

• One Show 2008 – Merit for The Addicts – Nike

• One Show 2008 – Merit for Join In – Cravendale

• D&AD 2008 – Merit for The Addicts – Nike

• Euobest – Merit for Music Almighty

• New York Festivals 2007 – Gold for Lebron IV

• Cannes Lions 2007 – Merit for Flight Sim X

• Cannes Lions 2007 – Merit for Lebron IV

• One Show 2007 – Merit for Flight Sim X

• One Show 2007 – Merit for Lebron IV

• Cannes Lions 2006 – Merit for PGR3

• One Show 2006 – Silver for PGR3

• One Show 2006 – Merit for PGR3

• Grafika Awards 2006 – Grand Prix

• Clio 2006 – Merit for PGR3

• Cannes Lions 2005 – Gold for Guru Cycling

• One Show 2005 – Gold for Guru Cycling

• Cannes Lions 2004 – Bronze for Solo Mobility

• Comm Arts Interactive Annual 2003 – Diesel Marketing

• Cassies 2004 – Best Launch – Zumanity, Cirque du Soleil

• Digital Marketing Awards 2005 – Gold for Guru Cycles

• Digital Marketing Awards 2002 – Best of Show for Cirque du Soleil