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Bill Clarke - Corporate Art Director for Ad-Art

Bill Clarke was Ad-At's first corporate art director. He joined the firm in 1958, shortly after its inception.

 

Clarke was born in 1924 in Pittsford, New York. He was a graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology. Following military service in WWII and the Korean War, he moved to Oregon and worked as a commercial artist. Then he joined Heath & Co.'s office in San Francisco, before joining Ad-Art.

 

Las Vegas sign credits include:

Castaways (Ad-Art's first Las Vegas sign installation), 1965

Thunderbird sign facade and pylon, 1965

Frontier Hotel Pylon, 1966

Flamingo Pylon, 1968

 

Source: the Magic Sign by Chuck Barnard, ST Publications, 1993

 

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Uploaded on February 18, 2019
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