David Orr is a director, photographer, and artist based in Los Angeles. He began his career in New York, where he worked agency side as an art director then creative director, eventually founding  x2 Design, an advertising and design firm, before directing full time.

His work has won Addy, BDA, CTAM, Gracie, CTAM, LICC, Promax, and Telly awards, multiple film festivals, and appeared in Ad Age, ADWEEK, The Art Director’s Club, Buzzfeed, Communication Arts, Graphis Logo, Graphis Book, Harper’s, Hyperallergic, LA Weekly, Screen, SHOOT, VICE, and VICTOR: The Hasselblad Magazine.

Independent film projects have won festivals, screened in venues such as BFI and The Director’s Guild, and aired on networks including Channel 4 Britain, and PBS. He speaks about art, design, and advertising regularly, and has presented at The Joseph Campbell Foundation, The Director’s Guild of America, Dublintellectual, The Mütter Museum, The New School, Parsons School of Design, Reed College, and UCLA, among other venues.

His photography and art have been shown extensively in the United States and internationally in shows juried by representatives from the deYoung Museum, the International Center for Photography, the Lucie Awards, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, The New York Times, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among others. His work is in public collections among such artists as Ansel Adams, Ruth Asawa, John Baldessari, David Hockney, The Brothers Quay, Taryn Simon, Edward Weston, and Joel-Peter Witkin.
David Orr is a director, photographer, and artist based in Los Angeles. He began his career in New York, where he worked agency side as an art director then creative director, eventually founding  x2 Design, an advertising and design firm, before directing full time.

His work has won Addy, BDA, CTAM, Gracie, CTAM, LICC, Promax, and Telly awards, multiple film festivals, and appeared in Ad Age, ADWEEK, The Art Director’s Club, Buzzfeed, Communication Arts, Graphis Logo, Graphis Book, Harper’s, Hyperallergic, LA Weekly, Screen, SHOOT, VICE, and VICTOR: The Hasselblad Magazine.

Independent film projects have won festivals, screened in venues such as BFI and The Director’s Guild, and aired on networks including Channel 4 Britain, and PBS. He speaks about art, design, and advertising regularly, and has presented at The Joseph Campbell Foundation, The Director’s Guild of America, Dublintellectual, The Mütter Museum, The New School, Parsons School of Design, Reed College, and UCLA, among other venues.

His photography and art have been shown extensively in the United States and internationally in shows juried by representatives from the deYoung Museum, the International Center for Photography, the Lucie Awards, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, The New York Times, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among others. His work is in public collections among such artists as Ansel Adams, Ruth Asawa, John Baldessari, David Hockney, The Brothers Quay, Taryn Simon, Edward Weston, and Joel-Peter Witkin.