Scott Dadich - Scott Dadich came to Wired in 2006 to oversee design, photography, illustration and typography as Creative Director.
In 2007, the magazine won the prestigious National Magazine Award for General Excellence and followed up in 2008, winning the National Magazine Award for Design, the magazine industry's highest design honor. His August 2006 cover with Stephen Colbert was named Best Celebrity Cover by the American Society of Magazine Editors, and his 2007 redesign was hailed as elegant and provocative. He has received more than 100 national design and editorial awards, including 35 gold and silver SPD medals. In 2008, he was awarded SPD Magazine of the Year and elected President of SPD. In 2005 and 2006, the City and Regional Magazine Association named him Designer of the Year, and Print magazine named him one of its 20 Under 30 breakthrough visual talents in the world.
Previously, Dadich was creative director of Texas Monthly, where the magazine was nominated for 14 National Magazine Awards and won for General Excellence in 2003.
He recently completed designing his first two books, Dan Winters' long-awaited monograph for Aperture and the 2009 American Photography Annual, now in stores.
Scott Dadich talks about designing Wired Magazine, developing a creative culture in magazine design, with three guiding ideas; that details matter, to design by evolution rather than revolution, and that constraint is freedom.