Scott Wilson
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wilson.scott7@gmail.com

About

I’m an international award-winning Design Director / Art Director from New Zealand, currently based in Canada.

With over 13 years’ experience working in design, my work covers brand design, conceptual editorial design, advertising art direction, and everything that falls within.

That might be a lot of things, but whether it's for waste management giants, a postpartum support house, stuffed-crust pizza, or a city of 1.5 million, I bring the same relentless hunt for the big idea and an emotional intelligence that leaves even the most complex subjects simple and full of feeling.

Awards

2026

Ranked in top 30 • Strategy Magazine Report Card’s top designers in Canada
Winner • Design • Entire Publication • Applied Arts Design
Currently Shortlisted • Design • Strategy Marketing Awards

2025

Silver • Design • Corporate Comms • ADCC Awards*
Bronze • Design • Public Service • ADCC Awards
Winner • Mobile Series • Communication Arts Advertising
Gold • Design • Strategy Marketing Awards*
Winner • Integrated Brand Identity • Communication Arts Design
Bronze • Rebrand • Design • Strategy Marketing Awards
Merit • Typography • Design • Strategy Marketing Awards*
Winner • PSA/Charity/Government • Applied Arts Design Awards
Gold Anvil • Direct Mail • AdRodeo Awards
Silver Anvil • Brand Identity • AdRodeo Awards
Gold Anvil • Annual Report • AdRodeo Awards*
Silver Anvil • Annual Report • AdRodeo Awards*
Gold Anvil • Microsite/Campaign Website • AdRodeo Awards*
Gold Anvil • Purpose Driven Impact • AdRodeo Awards*
Gold Anvil • Fearless Client • AdRodeo Awards*
Gold Anvil • Craft Design • AdRodeo Awards*
Gold Anvil • Craft Art Direction • AdRodeo Awards*

2024

Merit • Design • The One Show
Bronze • Design • Strategy Marketing Awards
Silver • Design • Public Service • ADCC Awards
Winner • Best in Show • Communication Arts Typography
Silver • Photography • Graphic Design Photography • ADCC Awards
Winner • Brochure • Communication Arts Typography
Winner • Brochure/Report • Communication Arts Typography
Winner • Annual Report • Communication Arts Design
Finalist • Public Service • Communication Arts Design
Winner • Public Service/Charity • Applied Arts Design
Winner • Entire Publication Design • Applied Arts Design
Best in Show • AdRodeo Anvils
Winner • Annual Report • AdRodeo Anvils
Silver • Photography Single • AdRodeo Anvils
Silver • Photography Series • AdRodeo Anvils
Silver • Craft Photography • AdRodeo Anvils

2023

Shortlisted • Design • The One Show
Winner • Annual Report • Communication Arts Design
Winner • Annual Report Single • Applied Arts
Merit • Strategy 101st Marketing Awards • Design
Finalist • NZ Best Awards

2022

Merit • Design • The One Show
Winner • Entire Publication Design • Applied Arts
Merit • Design • Marketing Awards
Winner • Cause Related Creative Response • Applied Arts
Winner • Brochure • Communication Arts Design Awards
Anvil • Brochure, Book, and Publication Design • Ad Rodeo Awards
Finalist (Pending) • Design Communication • NZ Best Awards
Bronze • Live Action / Animation • IDÉA Awards (Quebec)

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*As Leadership

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Title

No Place to Go

Client

Vibrant Communities Calgary

Project

Transit Disorder Report

Type

Editorial Design

Year

2024

Credits

Designer
Ben Coles
CCO
Keli Pollock
Account Director
Tali Demassi

Role

Design Director — Along with Keli Pollock, I oversaw the design and development of this project.

About

In order to better understand Calgary’s challenges around transit, social disorder and public safety, Vibrant Communities Calgary conducted research, which would be shared with policy makers and the general public through a report and microsite.

The research findings were not pretty.

The problems were complex, and there were a lot of unhoused Calgarians on the streets being perpetually moved on from every location they gathered; no place to go. This was not an assignment that could be solved with glossy stock shots and corporate body copy. It needed to tell the truth, even if it was a harsh truth. We wanted the design to reflect the uneasiness and harshness of the disorder on transit.

Ben developed an unsettling and distorted aesthetic approach by printing out, tearing, distressing, layer, and reconstructing elements by hand. The typographic elements and inconography is extracted from markings, words, and glyphs found along Calgary's LRT stations.

Awards

Merit • Typography • Design • Strategy Marketing Awards 2025

Silver Anvil • Annual Report • AdRodeo Awards 2025