That’s me. Name’s Matt Clark. A simple Google search will tell you there are
A LOT of people who share my name. Probably too many. Twelve Matt Clarks are working as creatives in advertising alone. TWELVE. Which is why after countless attempts to name my website, I settled on this one.

I was born and raised in Missouri and spent my summers working on a family farm. Lots of hay baling, barbed wire laying, cattle herding, sweating, itching, and wondering how early in life a person can retire from farm work.

So, in 2004, I moved to New York City with a degree in horticulture.

Side note: A horticulture degree in New York City is not especially helpful, unless you’re looking for weird stares.

After a lot of networking and grabbing coffee, I inexplicably landed a job at a publishing company on Sixth Avenue. That turned into day trading on Wall Street, creating a humor website, and eventually finding advertising.

Which, it turns out, is a pretty good place for someone with a bunch of unrelated jobs, questionable career decisions, and strong opinions about tomato varieties.

I’ve worked as a writer, creative director, group creative director, and Chief Creative Officer at Fact & Fiction, VML, Mullen, Deutsch LA, BBH, Crispin Porter + Bogusky, and TBWA\Chiat\Day.

I’ve won Lions, Pencils, Clios, Webbys, Effies, and most of the other award things people in advertising like to mention in bios.

But I’m still waiting for my first big cattle-herding account.

Someday. Someday.

Outside of work, I spend time with my family, play Pokémon and Minecraft with my eight-year-old, garden, grow rare fig trees, become weirdly invested in plant varieties, flip houses, fish, and travel whenever and wherever I can.

Reach out if you want to talk about advertising. Or plants. Or fig trees. Or travel. Or why there are so many people named Matt Clark.

Hopefully, you’ll meet this one soon.