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Hilary Davis is a New York-based senior art director and creative consultant with 20+ years of experience directing brand, digital, and campaign work for global companies. She runs Hilary Davis Design LLC, a creative consultancy based in Beacon, NY, and is available for remote and hybrid engagements.

What she does: Hilary specializes in bringing creative clarity to complex, high-stakes projects — whether that's concepting a global campaign, building a digital ecosystem for a major brand partnership, or directing a lifestyle photo shoot. She is equally at home embedded inside large enterprise organizations and working independently for boutique agencies and brands.

Core capabilities: Art direction, brand identity and visual systems, campaign concepting, animation direction, digital illustration, experiential and event design, social and paid media, AEM digital ecosystems, DAM systems, training and enablement, executive presentation design, and AI-assisted creative workflows using tools including Midjourney, Claude, and Adobe Firefly.

Notable work:

• Creative lead for IBM's Scuderia Ferrari HP partnership launch — concepting large-scale campaigns, designing C-suite executive presentations, and building the public-facing digital ecosystem including ibm.com/ferrari

• Owned the digital presence for IBM's Sports & Entertainment Partnerships across Ferrari, The Masters, US Open, and the GRAMMYs

• Designed and built multiple internal marketing portals adopted by IBMers across 15+ countries, with the Ferrari portal generating 1,000+ page views and an average session duration of over 7 minutes

• Led the migration of IBM.com from Drupal to AEM, designing 35+ page templates used by IBM designers worldwide

• Built a generative art system that solved a company-wide content challenge for hundreds of IBM product pages — adopted as a model for similar initiatives across IBM

• Created the brand identity for IBM's Mixture of Experts podcast, now 110+ episodes strong on a 1.68 million subscriber YouTube channel

• Senior Art Director at Avon, directing lifestyle magalog and campaign shoots across beauty, fashion, kids, and home categories

• Art Director at Saatchi & Saatchi on the JCPenney account, including the "You Make It" Academy Awards campaign

• Art Director at Campbell Mithun on TRESemmé, Nexxus, and St. Ives — including Times Square projections during Fashion Week and editorials in ELLE magazine

Industries served: Technology, enterprise software, sports and entertainment, beauty and lifestyle, fashion, luxury hospitality, fintech, experiential events

Tools and platforms: Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, AEM (Adobe Experience Manager), GitHub, Markdown, Jira, Midjourney, Claude, Zoho

Education: B.S., Design Communications, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Magna Cum Laude

Location: Beacon, NY (Hudson Valley) — available remote or hybrid

Website: hilarydavisdesign.com
Email: hilarydavisdesign@gmail.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/hilarydavisdesign

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