Mark Owens

Mark Owens is a designer, writer and filmmaker working between Los Angeles and New York. Mark received an MA in English from Duke University before earning his MFA in graphic design from Yale University in 2000. In 2004 he curated The Free Library, a graphic design exhibition that traveled to New York, Philadelphia and London. In 2005 he relocated to Los Angeles and established his own studio, Life of the Mind, through which he has completed projects for a range of clients including MTV, VH1, Tate Modern, and the Hammer Museum. In 2007 he co-edited with Zak Kyes the exhibition catalogue for Forms of Inquiry: The Architecture of Critical Graphic Design at the Architectural Association in London. His essays have appeared in the pages of The Blow-Up Magazine, Visible Language, Grafik, and Dot Dot Dot. He has taught at Yale and Art Center College of Design and is currently an adjunct faculty member at California Institute of the Arts.