David Johnston
Founder, ECD at D&AD
Oregon, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Johnston is a founder and creative technologist with over two decades spent at the intersection of design, strategy, and speculative futures. He leads Accept & Proceed and co-runs Outlandish strategy at Today, blending brand craft with provocative concepts that push boundaries of experience and meaning. A Central Saint Martins-trained designer who has worked with Nike and Interbrand, he also teaches "design for the future" at Elisava and judges for D&AD, signaling a commitment to nurturing the next generation of creative talent. Author of a technical book on random number generators and self-described "Arch Grumpy Coder," he combines rigorous thinking with an appetite for odd, elegant projects—like Dut18, a minimalist refuge that merges architecture with pagan ritual. Based between Oregon and the UK, David brings entrepreneurial grit, cross-disciplinary curiosity, and a taste for the unexpected to every brief.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BA(Hons) Graphic Design, BA(Hons) Graphic Design at Central Saint Martins
Github Skills (55)
prng10
linux10
entropy10
in-place10
converter9
fftw9
python9
init9
assembler9
vagrant9
system9
statistical-tests9
65029
systemd9
markup8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
dj-on-github/quickrdrand
Apr 2018 - Jan 2022
Contributions:1 release, 36 commits, 32 pushes in 3 years 9 months
dj-on-github/hexbinhex
Mar 2017 - Oct 2022
Contributions:1 release, 16 commits, 22 pushes in 5 years 8 months
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