Clifford Borress

Clifford Borress has a diverse work experience in the creative field. Clifford is currently serving as the Executive Creative Director at Wild Alaskan Company since April 2021. Prior to this, they worked at Freshly as the Creative Director and then promoted to the position of Executive Creative Director from February 2019 to April 2021.

In 2018, Clifford joined Thinx Inc. as a Creative Director, where they stayed until March 2019. Before that, they worked at AIGA as a Creative Director from an unknown start date to January 2018. During their time at AIGA, they led visual brand strategy and management, provided design direction, established relationships with renowned design firms, and managed a team of in-house designers.

Clifford also has experience working as the Art and Liberal Arts Faculty at Cleveland Institute of Art in 2013, as well as freelancing as a Graphic Designer and Design Manager for various art and design publications from 2007 to 2013.

Additionally, they worked at Acconci Studio as an Exhibition Designer in 2010, Massachusetts College of Art and Design as an Art Faculty in 2010, and D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers in a production role from 2004 to 2008.

Clifford Borress has a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) from the University at Buffalo, where they studied from 1999 to 2003. Clifford then pursued a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Photography at Bard College, completing their studies in 2010. In 2011, Clifford attended the Jan van Eyck Academie for Post-Graduate Research in Fine Art, Theory, and Design, where they worked as a researcher for a year.