Occupation

Matt Owens is Co-Founder and Chief Design and Innovation Officer at Athletics, a brand studio in Brooklyn, New York. He is a designer, entrepreneur, and author who's expertise focuses on sense-making a cross business, strategy, design and technology

Education

Phi Beta Kappa with a BFA in graphic design from UT Austin and earned his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art's Graphic Design Program.

professional experience

In New York City in the late 90s, Matt was art director for the digital agency Methodfive during its meteoric pre-acquisition rise. From 1997 to 2009, he self-published his experimental design quarterly, Volumeone.com which is in SFMoMA’s permanent collection. Matt established the small design studio One9ine, working with Warren Corbitt and Lee Misenheimer from 1999 to 2003 developing projects for Sony, Nike, Madlib, and The Cooper Hewitt. Matt founded Athletics as a collective of like-minded creatives in 2004 with Jason Gnewikow. In 2011 Athletics became a formal creative agency with Matt serving as founding partner and one of its creative leads. Welcoming new partners Malcolm Buick and Jameson Proctor, the agency has created large-scale brand and design projects

clients

Major League Soccer, IBM, Citrix, Google, Stripe, Square, and many others.