Former Wired editor recruits designer from Fast Company

Scott Dadich, the former Wired editor-in-chief who quit Condé Nast to start his own design and strategy firm, Godfrey Dadich Partners, has just poached award-winning creative designer Florian Bachleda from Fast Company.

He’s also signed another former Condé Nast executive, Rick Levine, to be a managing partner and head up the expanding New York office. Levine had actually been Dadich’s first boss at Condé Nast, when Dadich was still the creative director of Wired.

They teamed up to run the Condé Nast editorial group, but Levine was out in 2014 in one of the company’s periodic upheavals.

Dadich teamed up with Patrick Godfrey to form the firm in January.

While he won’t disclose revenue, Dadich said the firm has already expanded to more than 60 people at its HQ in San Francisco and offices in LA and NY, and counts the 9/11 Memorial & Musuem and the Obama Foundation among its clients. Dadich also created and co-produced a Netflix series on design.

Levine is heading the four-person New York office — which is looking to add eight people.