Clayton Hove
Creative Director
Bismarck, ND, USASee the daze.
Work Experience
KK BOLD
Creative Director
Quickie origin story: I was hired as copywriter. I wrote. Out of agency necessity, I willingly took on additional roles. Three months after starting the gig, a mysterious box of business cards landed on my desk, magically transforming me into a creative director.
Alas, no cape.
So now, I direct creative as well as do a plethora of other important-type things befitting my wide-ranging skill set.
Don’t fence me in.
Seriously. Those little barb things sting like the dickens.
Alas, no cape.
So now, I direct creative as well as do a plethora of other important-type things befitting my wide-ranging skill set.
Don’t fence me in.
Seriously. Those little barb things sting like the dickens.
February 1997
- Present
Bismarck, North Dakota, United States
GLNess (now Sundog)
Art Director
I was hired as art director after a freelance gig involving concept and design. Along with my art director duties, I also tackled writing projects, and later, directed and produced broadcast. I particularly enjoyed radio and the challenge of being a visual thinker working in an audio-only medium, because that’s the kind of guy I am.
December 1995
- December 1996
Fargo, North Dakota, United States
The Nightshade Studio / Blurred Vision Image Enhancement
Graphic Designer
Thanks to the inevitability of serendipity, my propensities and necessities had a high-speed collision with each other. From the twisted wreckage emerged a freelance graphic designer I like to call “me”.
I started with promotional pieces and identity packages, then taught myself to speak in fluent branding and conversational campaigns. That's when things started to get fun and take off, eh? (Grand Forks is somewhat close to the Canadian border.)
I started with promotional pieces and identity packages, then taught myself to speak in fluent branding and conversational campaigns. That's when things started to get fun and take off, eh? (Grand Forks is somewhat close to the Canadian border.)
September 1989
- December 1995
Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States
Education
Dickinson State University
Bachelor of Science, Business Administration
Minor in Entrepreneurship
2007
- 2010
Dickinson, North Dakota, United States
University Of North Dakota
Communications, Advertising
1989
- 1992
Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States
Minnesota State University Moorhead
Mass Communications
1988
- 1989
Moorhead, Minnesota, United States
Bismarck State College
Certificate of Completion, Commercial Art
1986
- 1988
Bismarck, North Dakota, United States
Languages
English (Native),
Latin (Conversational),