I’m a hands-on Creative Director, Art Director, Illustrator and Maker with over twenty years of professional experience and a track record for creating thumb-stopping social creative and developing high-performing teams. So yes… I’ve been around the block a few times; and starting my career post-grad in a small town and exhausting all the creative roles there meant that I learned a lot—but the job titles I had never matched what I did. I led all Creative for Dippin’ Dots, Inc. for over five years—and helped develop “Minion Madness Cookie Dough” as a co-branded tie-in with Illumination Entertainment when the first “Despicable Me” came out—but my title there was only ever “Designer.” I’ve driven initiatives for scalable digital creative solutions in addition to leading custom social content and video productions that resulted in double-digit sales increases. My career began in print design and gave me a strong grounding in production specs and “doing work right the first time” to avoid costly reprints. I’ve championed the power of social and new media; leading the launch of Facebook for Dippin’ Dots, Inc. (2007) and TikTok for Arby’s (2018) and The Home Depot (2022). I empower and challenge my teams to think strategically—not just creatively—as we work to elevate the brands we touch and make content that resonates with our audiences. I enjoy passing along what I’ve learned and teach new shooting, editing and software techniques to my teams on a regular basis to help everyone develop new skills. I’ve worked freelance, long-term contract, in-house and agency-side as a single contributor on a larger Marketing team as well as a Creative team leader and mentor—hence the number of titles that don’t accurately reflect the job I was hired to do. I identify as a member of the LGBTQ+ community and proudly bring my whole self to every role. I’ve won awards for my work, including a Cannes Silver Lion and a Shorty Award for Art Direction; but the one that means the most to me is the HOW Design award for the wedding invitations I created for my husband and me in 2014.
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Congratulations! You've found the website for Scott Andrew Hunt (he/him/his), award-winning creative team leader and maker with over 25 years of professional concepting, design, strategy and marketing experience with a focus on social media and digital advertising.

My husband had to move my site to a new server (!), and that meant a chance to CLEAN HOUSE, rebuild and not migrate everything from my old site. So... I apologize if you've been to my site before and can't find something that you've seen previously. Trust me, it's stored away safely. I'm <slowly> adding all of my previous content creator work done for Arby's Restaurants to my back-from-the-dead Instagram account.

Stay awhile, take a look around, and hit me up if you have a project we can collab on!

A note about the icons you'll see on my site: No, there isn't a problem with your browser. The icons are made of cut paper. I love real, tangible things crossing over into the digital world, and as a Maker I had to do something fun for my own site.

I hand-cut each one with an X-Acto knife and photograph them on the rig I have at home that captures the shadows and depth of the layers of paper.

The photos below show some of the in-progress "icon tiles" before they're finished, shot and added to the site. The first four (technically five) I made back in 2017 were for Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn.

I made two versions for Instagram because sometimes I needed the white logo against a dark or really colorful background.

I've since added a bunch of new tiles at the start of 2024 and updated Facebook's to their newer, centered "f" version as well as using a brighter blue paper than I used for the original.

I put off replacing "Twitter" with "X" for as long as I could... BUT I was able to make it kind-of cool by using a piece of felt for the background. I miss the blue bird, though.

And yes, TikTok is <slightly> larger because the thin paper I used for the fluorescents in the icon kept tearing when I cut it at the smaller size. The joys of working with paper...
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Wanna find me elsewhere?

Take a look at my cut paper artwork that has moved its way over to Instagram, or connect with me on LinkedIn.
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