About Sam Doust

Since 2014, under the studio name Latchkey, I’ve delivered cultural works to the Sydney Opera House, Google, and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and others.

As a multi-disciplined digital creative, I work as a visual artist, writer/director, executive producer and project director - an experienced creative director with a broad church of hands-on skills, and a commitment to knowledge sharing.

My work spans more than twenty years in the digital media landscape of Australia. In that time, projects I’ve conceived of and led, such as ABC iview, have provoked change and disruption in both consumer and industry behaviour. Others have won multiple awards. Throughout my career I’ve worked both autonomously as well as leading highly creative teams.

An early adopter of the Adobe creative applications from the early 90s, I developed an affinity for the creative possibilities inherent in digital design principles, which gave me a fast start in the rapid transformation of the visual design, broadcast and agency sectors, where I regularly freelanced as a commercial artist and artworker, while completing a BA (hons) in Film and Video at the University of Arts in London.

After working as an art and creative director in London and Sydney, I joined the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in late 2001 as a hybrid digital producer, designer/developer, working across multiple divisions, including News and Current Affairs, where I created the first interactive editions of Four Corners, the country’s premiere investigative journalism program.

In 2007, I was made Creative Director of Strategic Development for the newly created Innovation Division, leading projects that identified the ABC as a major innovator in digital content. These included ABC iview, The Opera House Project, Bluebird AR and Gallipoli: the first day.

Since founding Latchkey Studio in 2014, I continue to manage and collaborate with other artists, developers, engineers and producers, and have in the process developed an excellent network of talent in the region.

I have been awarded as a writer, director, producer, editor, graphic designer, motion graphics artist, executive producer and project director and I’m a professional member of AACTA and the Australian Writers Guild. In late 2020 I was appointed to the Heritage Consultancy Panel at the Sydney Opera House. I was invited to speak at TEDx on the tools of digital storytelling and have also been a speaker and lecturer at numerous conferences, universities and events, including the Australian Film Television and Radio School, the Australian Screenwriters Conference and the Melbourne Writers Festival, UTS and UNSW.

Examples of Published works combining writing & visual design

The Opera House Project - AWGIE & AIMIA award-winning interactive documentary.

Bluebird AR - AWGIE award-winning transmedia narrative.

Sydney Opera House, official tours multilingual films.

Days in Conflict - multi award-winning interactive documentary.

RECENT Exhibits &exhibitions

The Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House - physical and digital exhibition and curation and film.

John Coburn’s Tapestries at Sydney Opera House - physical and digital exhibition and curation and film.

Sydney Opera House on Google Arts & Culture - writer, designer, curator, director/editor for 50 exhibits and 360 film.