Matthew Clark

Principal & Creative Director

Bio:

Matthew Clark is an internationally-recognized and highly awarded Creative Director and Designer based in Vancouver, Canada. Founder of Subplot Design Inc., he is also an... author, mentor and public speaker known for his opinionated (amusingly?) take on branding, design, and the world of marketing and advertising. He is also a drawer, painter, and sword-play-dance-party-pantomime dad and husband. Matthew took a circuitous route to design. Prepping in high-school for a medical career, he sat on the fence by enrolling in both advanced biology and studio art before fully switching to a fine art major with concentrations in psychology and literature, and graduated with a Bachelor's degree (honours) in Fine Arts in 1992 from the University of British Columbia. Having already started a one-man design firm in 1989 during university, Matthew joined DDB Canada's design division, karacters, in 1994, moving up the ranks to Associate Creative Director, focusing on consumer, packaging and retail design. Matthew's passion and commitment to breakthrough creative has been recognized in local, national and international design shows and publications, including Graphis, New York Festivals, Mobius Awards, ID, Good Design Awards, Graphic Designers of Canada, Advertising and Design Club of Canada, Lotus Awards, Lurzer's ARCHIVE, the London International Advertising Awards and Pentawards. Matthew's work is also part of the permanent collections of the Chicago Athenaeum Museum and the Design Exchange.Read More

Category:

Design

Company:

Subplot Design Inc.

Contact:

http://www.subplot.com/

Awards:

200+ Awards / Including London Advertising Awards, New York Festivals, New York Type Director’s Club, Pentawards, One Club, Graphis, Good Design, Lürzer's Archive, Communication Arts,... ID, GDUSA , HOW, Print, Design Exchange, Advertising & Design Club of Canada, Applied Arts, Coupe, Design Edge Canada, and Graphex Awards. Museum Archives / Work is in the permanent archives of the Chicago Athenaeum and Toronto’s Design Exchange. 50+ Editorials / Including HOW (8-pg), CA (2-pg), GDUSA’s “People to Watch”, Applied Arts (6-pg) Author & Op Ed / Applied Arts, Marketing, Strategy, Communication Arts, Design Edge Canada, and online. Speaking & Award Show Judging / How Design Live & The Dieline Conference (Boston), Design Research Conference (Chicago), Creative Mornings (Vancouver), Applied Arts Student Awards, ACE Awards (Edmonton), GDC Salazar Awards, New York Festivals, local design colleges, student awards & classes.Read More