Before becoming the creative director of Texas Monthly, Scott Dadich was just another college kid making ends meet delivering pizzas and working in a bagel shop. Then, one morning in 1996, the art director of a Lubbock ad agency stopped into Hoot’s Bagels and asked who had decorated the shop’s blackboard, which was festooned with ornate pastel drawings and hand lettering. Dadich was pulled out of the kitchen—where he was making bagels—and given an unpaid internship at the Price Communications Group. Before long, he had become the agency’s senior designer.

Dadich joined the staff of Texas Monthly as associate art director in 2000, and was promoted to art director the next year. He was named creative director in 2004. He was previously the art director of the Texas Tech University Office of News & Publications, in Lubbock. He holds a bachelor’s degree in fine arts from Texas Tech University with emphases in design communications and photography.

Dadich has received over 30 national design awards from groups such as the Society of Publication Designers (SPD), the Art Director’s Club (ADC), and the Council for the Advancement of Secondary Education (CASE). His work has also been showcased in Communication Arts and Print. He is a regular speaker at the University of Texas in Austin, Texas Tech University, Baylor University and the University of Mississippi in Oxford, and has served as a judge for the National Magazine Awards, the SPD Awards, and the Communication Arts 2005 Photography Annual.

Photo District News described Dadich as a "visionary" who "led the way in photography" in 2003 when it named him a PDN Player. The following year, the New York Times published his critique of the Bush and Kerry campaigns’ use of graphic design. In 2005, the City and Regional Magazine Association named Dadich “Designer of the Year,” and Print named him one of the “20 Under 30” breakthrough visual talents in the world.