Dimitri Kalagas is a multidisciplinary creative director based in Sydney, Australia.

He's currently serving as creative director for Apple in Australia and New Zealand.

Previously, he was creative director for Australian tech unicorn, Canva, where he developed the first global brand platform in the company's history.

Before that, he lived in Los Angeles, where he was group creative director on Omnicom's AT&T business (one of the largest agency/client relationships in North America), leading a multidisciplinary team across all their consumer brands. He also held roles at Tinder as a global creative director and at digital innovation studio B-Reel. 

Dimitri’s time in LA began at Apple’s dedicated global agency, Media Arts Lab. While there, he worked across all product lines and launched numerous global campaigns, including the highly lauded holiday spot 'The Song' and the launch of Apple Music.

In Australia, he cut his teeth as a designer and art director at Lifelounge, a boutique agency and publisher ranked in the top 20 creative companies across the Asia Pacific in 2009 and ultimately acquired by DDB Melbourne in 2015.

He has also independently co-directed and produced numerous films, including music videos and documentary shorts.

Whether in partnership with startups or Fortune 10 companies, his approach to building brands remains the same - earning the attention and advocacy of audiences via stories and experiences where the brand authentically intersects with human and cultural truths.

This approach has yielded work recognized at Cannes, New York Festivals, Young Guns, Webbys, and MADC, and featured in Lürzer's Archive, Communication Arts, plus countless more, for clients such as Apple, Beats By Dre, Adidas, Tinder, Netflix, Nike, AT&T, Google, EMI, Modular Records, Universal Music, Cadbury Schweppes and others.

If you want to know a little more about his story, you can reach out. 

And if social media is your thing, you can also find him @ the following places:

ORGANIZATIONS
Membership Board - Working Not Working
LA Task Force - Work In Progress

INTERVIEWS
Advanced Photoshop - Issue 73 - ‘Developing A Brand’ Feature
Computer Arts - Issue 146 - ‘Inspirational Projects’ Feature

EXHIBITIONS
2011 - Monster Children Photo Annual Group Show - Sydney
2010 - Baetulona Group Show - Barcelona, Badalona, Madrid, Buenos Aires
2009 - The Fox and the Crow - Melbourne

SELECT PRESS
Variety
Hollywood Reporter
Indiewire
Entertainment Weekly
Time
Forbes
The Wall Street Journal
The Daily Mail
Creativity
Adweek
Fast Company
Ad Age
The Huffington Post
Today
People
US Weekly
Refinery 29
Elite Daily
Mashable
The Verge
Tech Crunch
Cnet
Jezebel
Hypebeast
High Snobiety
Sneaker Freaker
Juxtapoz
Desktop Magazine
Communication Arts

PUBLISHED WORK
Monster Children 2011 Photography Annual
Graphics Alive 2
Lürzer’s Archive
Communication Arts