Design with Purpose.
Stories with Impact.
ART DIRECTOR
& VISUAL STORYTELLER
✧ I bring a balance of creativity, leadership, and production know-how to every project — helping teams deliver content that’s beautiful, meaningful, and commercially scalable.
I’m Derek R. Douglas, an Art Director with 15+ years in visual storytelling. I believe creativity can help people understand themselves, foster growth, and build a brighter future. With experience across publishing, education, and purpose-driven media, I design visual systems that connect and lead projects that deliver clarity, beauty, and measurable impact.
✧ What I Do
✧ Build cohesive branding and visual systems that unify assets and scale across diverse products and audiences
✧ Lead and mentor creative teams with clarity and care
✧ Analyze audience trends and directs design choices for marketable and competitive titles
✧ Deliver production-ready assets for publishing, curricula, exhibits, and media
✧ Design visuals that are engaging, purposeful, and commercially effective
✧ Create distinctive titles through inventive layouts and original visual languages
✧ Proven Results
✧ Directed branded content with a 400% engagement boost
✧ Designed projection visuals for a sold-out theatre production
✧ Created character design and animation for a youth film series with 15,000+ participants
✧ Produced video assets for global curricula used by 400+ organizations
✧ Illustrated museum exhibits that transformed education into engaging storytelling
✧ Designed projection visuals for a sold-out theatre production
✧ Created character design and animation for a youth film series with 15,000+ participants
✧ Produced video assets for global curricula used by 400+ organizations
✧ Illustrated museum exhibits that transformed education into engaging storytelling
✧ Testimonials
✧ Selected Work
Oliver & Co. Home
✧ Directed branded content system for social media — 400% engagement boost
Theatre Ancaster – Matilda the Musical
✧ Designed projection visuals and illustrations for a sold-out production
XP Ltd. / Solid Films
✧ Created character design and motion graphics for youth film series — 15,000+ participants
Raise Up Faith / Wonderborn
✧ Produced video assets for global curriculum adopted by 400+ organizations
Canadian Fire Fighters Museum
✧ Illustrated and designed exhibits that turned education into engaging storytelling
Blossom Books Press
✧ Illustrated acclaimed Canadian children’s trilogy — praised by educators, endorsed by public figures
Highlights Magazine
✧ Illustrated spot and narrative features for a leading U.S. children’s publication
✧ Let’s Work Together
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