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 travelled to New York, Philadelphia and London. In 2005 he established his studio, Life of the Mind, through which he has completed projects for a range of clients including VH1, Tate Modern, and The Hammer Museum. 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 (CalArts).