Life of the Mind is the studio of Mark Owens, a designer, writer, and curator working between New York, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia. In addition to independent projects the studio creates publications, print materials, websites, identities, exhibition graphics, apparel, and motion design for clients, collaborators, artists, and institutions. Mark holds an MFA in graphic design from Yale University and an MA in English from Duke University. His work has been featured in IDEA (Tokyo), GRAPHIC (Korea), Phaidon’s Area 2, the Walker Art Center’s Gradient blog, Graphic Design: Now in Production, and included in the 2013 Typojanchi Typography Biennial.
His essays have appeared in the pages of Dot Dot Dot, Visible Language, IDEA, GRAPHIC, PIN-UP, Bricks from the Kiln, and Experimental Jetset’s Statement and Counter-Statement. In co-edited with Zak Kyes the catalogue for the exhibition Forms of Inquiry at the Architectural Association, London, and in 2012 he was the recipient of a Creative Capital Arts Writers Grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation. In 2016 he served as guest curator of the exhibition The Surface of Design at Purchase College, SUNY.
Mark serves as a Critic in the MFA program in graphic design at Yale and visiting faculty in the Weitzman School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania. He has taught, lectured, led workshops, and curated exhibitions at RISD, CalArts, Princeton, VCU, UIC, Art Center College of Design, Purchase College SUNY, and Typography Summer School.
1241 Carpenter St.
Studio 112
Philadelphia, PA 19147
+1 917 686 7533
library@lifeofthemind.net
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Clients
Whitney Museum of American Art
The Jewish Museum, New York
Walker Art Center
ICA Miami
ICA Philadelphia
CAM St. Louis
UB Art Galleries
ICA Boston
Carnegie Museum of Art
MoMA PS1
MAK Center Los Angeles
Yale Art Gallery
Monkeypaw Productions
David Kordansky Gallery
Shane Campbell Gallery
Belkin Art Gallery
Sternberg Press
JRP Ringier
Koenig Books
Midgramme
Fence Books
Collaborators
Nilas Andersen
Andrew Lister
Ghazaal Vojdani
Tanya Rubbak
Rush Jackson
David Wise
Elaine Lopez
Sarah Cleeremans
Hassan Rahim
Harsh Patel
David Reinfurt
James Goggin
Sara De Bondt
Shannon Ebner
Florian Meisenberg
Photography
Joseph Webb
Paul Salveson
Breanne Furlong
Taylor Mosely
Dane Brist