Creative Director / Commercial Director / Photographer
Dylan Schwartz is a Creative Director, Photographer, Director, and Technologist known for merging art and technology to deliver award-winning results. As founder of KISSD and former VP at MullenLowe LA, he has transformed brands like Honda, Acura and Toyota, and worked on groundbreaking projects such as the world’s first iAd for Apple and Nissan, presented by Steve Jobs at WWDC 2010.
An acclaimed artist and Sony Cameras brand ambassador with over 77,000 followers, his work has been featured in major publications and galleries, earning him numerous awards including a Cannes Lion.
Selected Clients
Directed by Dylan
As Creative Director
01 · Creative Director
Nissan LEAF
What if everything in our lives ran on gas instead of electricity? That’s the premise of this campaign. The :60 TV spot made Nissan a trending topic on Twitter and Google the night it aired during the NBA Finals, and gained nearly 2 million views on YouTube over the next two months. Adweek named it one of the 10 best commercials of 2011, and it won a Cannes Lion for Film Craft in Art Direction.
02 · Creative Director
Acura
Launch campaign for the 2018 Acura TLX, built social-first instead of following the traditional car-commercial process. Dylan played a rare cross-discipline role as Creative Director, Art Director, Editor, Animator, and Photographer. Featured in AdAge, Creativity, Forbes, Campaign Live, and Mobile Marketer.
03 · Creative Director
Acura
Launching the Acura NSX on the Super Bowl.
04 · Creative Director
Acura
After years without a clearly articulated voice, it was time for Acura to plant a flag and tell the world what it stands for.
Dylan had just spent months embedded with the team that designed and engineered the NSX, interviewing them at the R&D center in Ohio and following test engineers across the country as they drove the NSX on real roads for the first time. That gave him a strong sense of Acura’s culture and spirit, and the clearest way to tell that story was to say it plainly: this is our point of view.
05 · Creative Director
Toyota
About once a decade, car companies update their taglines. In 2012, after a few rough years, Toyota decided it needed a fresh start. After months of work, the team arrived at a simple truth: Let’s Go Places. This is the anthem spot that launched the campaign and the next chapter for the world’s largest automaker.
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