Scot Drake

Creative Director, Walt Disney Imagineering

Scot Drake is a Creative Director in the Blue Sky creative
department of Walt Disney Imagineering where he brainstorms
concepts and visualizes future attractions and experiences for
Disney Park guests. Drake was the lead designer of the new
Disneyland Monorail Mark VII trains, opening at the Disneyland®
Resort in 2008. Many of his concepts are considered "top secret"
because they involve the future expansion of Disney Parks and
Resorts around the world. Drake's first role with Imagineering was
in 1996 as an intern working on DisneyQuest, an indoor interactive
theme park at Walt Disney World Resort in Florida. He returned to
Imagineering as a consultant in 1998 and became a full-time
senior concept designer in 2000. Some of the projects that Drake
has been associated with that made it out of the Blue Sky concept
phase and into attractions for guests include Turtle Talk with
Crush (Disney's California Adventure® park, Epcot®, Hong Kong
Disneyland®), Spaceship Earth refurbishment and Mission:
SPACE (Epcot®), the 50th Anniversary of Disneyland®, murals for
Tomorrowland (Disneyland®), Sindbad's Storybook Voyage
(Tokyo DisneySea), 100 years of Magic and the American Idol
Experience (Disney's Hollywood Studios®), the current expansion
of Disney's California Adventure® park, and is currently the art
director for the all new Star Tours II ( Disneyland® and Disney's
Hollywood Studios® ).

Prior to working for Walt Disney Imagineering, Drake held positions
with Universal Creative, Idea Labs and BRC Imagination Arts as a
concept designer. He taught Visual Communication at the Gnomon
School of Visual Arts, Advanced Digital Painting at UCLA and
continues to teach Visual Communications 6 Dramatic Narrative at
the Art Center College of Design, which he has taught for the past
several years. Drake attended the Art Center College of Design in
Pasadena in the Transportation Department, with a focus on
Entertainment Design.