◆ THE LIVING ARCHIVE
David Zak makes things.
This is the record.
I'm David Zak — Canadian artist, motion designer, and the founder of ArtResin (exited 2024). This site is my archive: the stories, lessons and strange detours from four decades of making things. For my current motion design and creative direction work, head to davidzak.com.
I take on a limited number of motion design, brand identity, and explainer-video projects each quarter — for agencies and direct brand clients. See services & availability →
◆ ARTICLES — NEW STORIES ADDED REGULARLY
- ◆ E-COMMERCE Launching a 2-Part Silicone Product from Scratch David Zak walks through launching a 2-part silicone mold-making product at ArtResin - from R&D and branding to packaging, video, and marketplace rollout - and what it taught him about building a platform.
- ◆ THE NEW CHAPTER Why I Went Back to Client Work After Selling My Company After exiting ArtResin in 2024, David Zak returned to motion design and creative direction. Here's why a founder goes back to client work — and what changes when he does.
- ◆ STRANGE NICHES LiDAR Scanning Fast Food Restaurants: My Strangest Freelance Niche David Zak on his unexpected freelance specialty — 3D LiDAR spatial scanning of Tim Hortons, Burger King, Popeyes, Taco Bell and Peet's Coffee locations.
- ◆ E-COMMERCE How We Private-Labeled Butane Torches (and Why Accessories Win in E-Commerce) David Zak on ArtResin's private-label butane torch line — sourcing, packaging, and the accessory strategy that grows an e-commerce brand beyond its hero product.
- ◆ ENTREPRENEURSHIP Exiting the Company I Founded: What the 2024 ArtResin Buyout Taught Me David Zak reflects on exiting ArtResin in 2024 via partner buyout — what it feels like to leave a company you founded, and what comes after the exit.
- ◆ MOTION DESIGN Motion Design for the World's Biggest Brands David Zak on 17+ years of motion design and animation for Pepsi, Coca-Cola, Samsung, BlackBerry, NASCAR, FedEx and major banks — and what working through top agencies really teaches you.
- ◆ E-COMMERCE How I Built ArtResin: From Headaches in My Studio to a Global Brand David Zak tells the founding story of ArtResin — how frustration with toxic, yellowing epoxy led him to partner with chemists and build an artist-safe resin brand sold in over 20 countries.
◆ GO DEEPER
- ◆ WHOThe full biography of David Zak Artist, motion designer, founder — the long version, from York University to a global exit.
- ◆ WHENThe 40-year timeline Every era of a making life, laid out keyframe by keyframe.