Global Creative Director

Adam Nemett is a Global Creative Director at TELUS Digital, where he leads a distributed team producing brand, video, and content across web and campaign channels. Over 17+ years he has directed creative for clients including HarperCollins, 21st Century Fox, Adobe, New Balance, and Pfizer, and has written award-winning corporate history books for Brooks Brothers, City of Hope, Discover, Huntington Bank, and Lockheed Martin. He is the author of the NY Times-reviewed debut novel We Can Save Us All (2018) and his work has appeared in Rolling Stone, Salon, LitHub, and Fatherly. He holds an MFA from California College of the Arts and a BA from Princeton University.

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Featured project

HarperCollins — 200th Anniversary Campaign

Back in 2014, I led HarperCollins's bicentennial brand campaign end to end: the flagship history exhibit at the publisher's New York headquarters and the full digital experience at 200.hc.com. I authored the 120-page anniversary "StoryBook" across five messaging pillars — Author Partnership, Global Growth & Reach, Publishing Innovation, Social & Cultural Impact, and Employee Passion — and ran global StoryARC sessions with HarperCollins leadership in New York, Nashville, San Francisco, London, and Remote (India and Australia).

Case Studies

Beginning in 2022, I served as Director of Brand & Content Strategy at the digital experience agency WillowTree, and, following its acquisition, I’m now Director, Global Brand & Creative Studio at TELUS Digital, a global technology company with 83K+ employees across 35+ countries, and a subsidiary of TELUS Corporation (NYSE/TSX). TELUS Digital provides digital customer experience (CX) management, IT services, artificial intelligence (AI) data solutions, digital products (mobile apps and websites), and trust and safety services like content moderation. I lead the creative team that turns client engagements into published articles, case studies, and video content: inclusive of the research, narrative strategy, copywriting, photography/video, SEO/GEO, and UX design and web development behind each story. The examples below span both organizations.

 

Dairy Queen

Led the creative team behind this case study on Dairy Queen's multi-year digital overhaul — a rebuild of mobile ordering, DairyQueen.com, and the brand's marketing technology. I shaped the narrative and visual storytelling that framed the results: 2.1M new loyalty members, plus measurable lifts in order conversion and click-through. A flagship example of turning a complex commerce engagement into a clear, on-brand story.

 

iZotope

Wrote and art-directed the case study on iZotope's Adobe-powered e-commerce transformation — a rebuilt storefront, checkout, content, and personalization engine for the audio-software brand. My role was making the performance story legible and compelling: +37% transactions, +17% sales, and +11% conversion rate year-over-year within a quarter of launch.

 

Brightline

Directed the storytelling and design for this case study on Brightline, the high-speed rail brand's end-to-end digital experience across web, native apps, and station kiosks. I distilled a sprawling, multi-discipline engagement into a single clear narrative anchored by its performance: 4x bookings growth, 70% faster in-app booking, and a 618% jump in organic traffic.

 

Zumba

Produced the case study behind Zumba's first direct-to-consumer platform — the research, pricing strategy, and product design that carried a licensing-and-DVD business into subscription fitness. I led the creative that packaged the launch story: 400K+ downloads in four months and a #1 "Best New Subscription" award.

 

Virginia Lottery

Led the creative team on this case study for the Virginia Lottery's mobile-first, omnichannel gaming experience. I shaped how the story balanced commercial performance with responsible-gaming design: $5M+ in first-week sales, 102K players in the opening week, and 7x higher retention than the web experience.

 

Pepsi

Created the case-study content for Pepsi's Super Bowl LVI Halftime companion experience — a real-time second screen for the year's biggest cultural moment. I directed the narrative and visuals that captured the scale: 500M QR-coded packages, 103M viewers, and a "Brand Bowl MVP" crown.

Video & Content Franchises

Original content programs I've created and led — a rapid-prototyping docuseries, a growth-marketing podcast, and on-camera AI thought leadership. Each one built to earn attention and move an audience toward action.

 

“2 Weeks To Better” - Rapid-Prototyping Docuseries

Concepted and produced a docuseries following cross-functional teams as they design, build, and test a real digital product improvement in two weeks. Built as top-of-funnel prestige content engineered to pull viewers toward high-intent conversion pages.

 

“AI Dialogues” - GenAI Thought-Leadership Franchise

A multi-format content franchise I led at WillowTree that translated the Data & AI practice's expertise into executive-ready thought leadership, making a fast-moving, highly technical subject clear and compelling for a C-suite audience. Samples include a signature report (Navigating the Generative AI Landscape: 10 Questions Informed Executives Are Asking) and the companion "AI Dialogues" video series. Related articles I wrote and host in the embedded videos position me as both author and spokesperson on applied AI.

 

"Room for Growth" — Growth-Marketing Podcast

A podcast I created and produced at WillowTree — candid conversations with senior marketing and brand leaders on growth, e-commerce, customer acquisition, and lifecycle strategy. Guests included executives from Penguin Random House, Amazon Music, White Castle, GoodRx, Braze, and SparkToro, reaching an audience that ranged from Fortune 500 CMOs to early-career practitioners across Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube.

Brand & Design Systems

Here are some identity and design systems I've created and led — the frameworks that keep work consistent across teams, digital channels, and physical spaces. Design systems lead to the creation and evolution of brand guidelines.

 

WillowTree Brand Book

The comprehensive brand and design system for WillowTree, a TELUS Digital Company — a 58-page “field guide” spanning logo, color, typography, graphic devices, photography, and videography, plus a full editorial voice system (brand characteristics, tone of voice, content standards) that keeps a distributed team on-brand across every channel.

 

TELUS Digital Brand overhaul

Following WillowTree's acquisition, I led the team that is refreshing the TELUS Digital brand — an evolving, living system managed and evolved section by section in a central DAM (Bynder). The largest-scale brand build of my career, and the current chapter of this work.

 

StoryARC — Trademarked Storytelling Methodology

Created StoryARC, a trademarked methodology adapting classic story structure to brand and corporate narrative. Facilitated hundreds of global sessions, from entry-level teams to C-suite leaders.

Books & Writings

I'm a working fiction/nonfiction writer as well as a creative director: a NYT-reviewed novel, essays in Rolling Stone, Salon, and LitHub, and comprehensive history books authored for major brands.

 

We Can Save Us All — DEBUT Novel (The Unnamed Press, 2018)

Welcome to The Egg, an off-campus geodesic dome where David Fuffman and his crew of alienated Princeton students train for what might be the end of days. Funded by the charismatic Mathias Blue and fueled by performance enhancers and psychedelic drugs, a student revolution incubates at The Egg, inspired by the superheroes that dominate American culture. The arrival of Haley Roth―an impassioned heroine with a dark secret―propels David and Mathias to expand their movement across college campuses nationwide, inspiring a cult-like following. As the final superstorm arrives, they toe the line between good and evil, deliverance and demagogues, the damned and the saved. 

  • One of Booklist's "Top 10 Debut Novels of 2018."

  • "Nemett captures a group whose unfettered exuberance is seldom found in today's novels." — The New York Times Book Review

  • "Nemett's wondrously fresh novel positively bursts with charm, heart, and invention." — Booklist, Starred Review

  • "Nemett’s recipe for disaster is sound—a dash of Pynchon, a hint of Neal Stephenson, and a nihilistic undertone that belies a semihopeful denouement... a confident, visceral debut that’s worth the ride." —Kirkus Reviews

 

Selected Essays & Articles

Bylines spanning my work as a fiction writer, creative director (with a focus on tech), and novice homesteader.

 

Corporate Histories and eBooks

Long-form writing for brands — award-winning corporate histories and practical guides like an eBook on the Adobe Experience Cloud martech stack. Different subjects, same job: turn dense material into something people actually want to read.

 

Thunderbird Disco

Creator of a homesteading and preparedness platform reaching ~250,000 readers a year; featured in Rolling Stone.