Michael Lemme

Executive creative director
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Mike (aka Lemme) owes his job to barefaced nepotism (more on which later). As a creative director at D/C, his focus is on brand strategy, design and interactive, and he has led rebranding efforts for, among others, Blurb, Esurance and Hard Rock International, for which the agency won the 2007 international REBRAND 100 competition. He also conceived and designed the widely honored interactive work for Hard Rock. Prior to joining D/C in 2004, Mike was creative director at the San Francisco design firm Method, where he led efforts for SFMOMA, Autodesk, Reuters and American Apparel. Before that, he was a senior designer at MetaDesign SF.

In addition to the REBRAND 100 award, his second (the first was for Autodesk in 2006), he has been recognized in CA‘s 2010 Interactive Annual for his Hard Rock work. He was also a One Show Interactive finalist for Hard Rock and a One Show Interactive winner for SFMOMA’s “Making Sense of Modern Art” interface. And his wise and witty musings were recently featured on Communications Arts‘ Insights blog.

He is secretly married to another D/C creative director and proud papa of two boys.