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Jonathan Pite is Principal and Creative Director of Pite Creative, a boutique corporate communications firm specializing in the creation of websites, annual reports and collateral materials for publicly-traded companies. Pite Creative also produces investor presentations, social media marketing, conference booth displays, brochures, eNews, ads and branding for non-profit organizations and emerging businesses. The firm consists of Jonathan Pite and a flex staff of nomad creative and on-site admin.

Pite graduated from the University of Colorado in the late seventies with a degree in art, then moved to New York City where he became a corporate and travel photographer. Assignments for the New York Times, Forbes Magazine, Connoisseur Magazine and the Jamaican Tourist Board sent him around the world. While shooting a book project in Japan in 1985, A Day in the Life of Japan, he was given one of the first Macs. It was about to replace his cameras.

After completing several magazine assignments in the Far East, Pite returned to NYC and learned how to use the Mac. The agencies he shot for embraced the spec design he offered with his photography, subsequently producing brochures for General Motors, AT&T, Mannufacturers Hanover and the Depository Trust Company. As his focus shifted from photography to design, he was hired as the design director at Deutch Shea & Evans Advertising in NYC where he worked on campaigns for IBM, Motorola, Pfizer, Merck, Microsoft and Citibank.

In the early nineties Jonathan Pite became the creative director at Carl Thompson Associates, an investor relations agency in Boulder, Colorado. Since then he's created hundreds of annual reports, websites and collateral materials for public companies across the country – many winning national and international awards. He's been President of the Art Directors Club of Denver, on the board of Design Coalition/USA and a member of AIGA. He's also been a lecturer, consultant and judge at universities, conferences and competitions.

In 2017 Jonathan Pite won the The One Club Denver Chapter’s 'Legacy Award.' "Through the years, Jonathan’s commitment to design and the creative community has been invaluable,” said Jay Roth, Senior Copywriter (formerly of Karsh Hagan and Integer). “He has championed generation after generation of the young and young at heart to rewarding, fulfilling jobs and careers. Jonathan stands as a pillar of grace, professionalism, and a passionate creative who emboldens Colorado’s design community."

Other honors include 'Top 50 Designers in the Nation’ by Graphic Design/USA Magazine as well as awards from the Potlatch Annual Report Show, Strathmore Annual Report Show, Financial World Annual Report Show, Nicholson Annual Report Show, Art Directors Club, American Graphic Design, Creativity, Public Relations Society of America, Business Marketing Association, International Association of Business Communicators, American Marketing Association, and Creativity In PR Assoc.