About Carl Owens
Carl Owens is a strategic creative leader, an award-winning designer and artist, and visionary who is passionate about design, aesthetics and communications that improve the lives of others. He infuses new challenges with a bold imagination to innovate and develop engaging solutions. He is a strong problem-solver and strategically approaches decisions with an analytical and objective mindset to understand impacts and alternative perspectives. With a high proficiency in tools like the Adobe Creative Suite and Microsoft Office, he possesses a wide range of experience across adult learning, marketing, branding and environmental collaborating with executives, stakeholders, cross-functional teams and others to achieve organizational goals. He proactively pushes for continuous improvement and enjoys designing on any scale, from marketing campaign collateral, to billboards, to facades of buildings incorporating strategic approaches in user empathy, design psychology, typography, information design (including Edward Tufte principles), clear space, dynamic layouts, color theory and more.
Carl has had the opportunity to design and lead the creation of assets for Fortune companies and many other organizations including Underwriters Laboratories, NASA, Johnson & Johnson, Hilti tools, Siemens, Sanofi, Amgen, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Merck, Reckitt Benckiser, Kaiser Permanente, Pfizer, British Petroleum, Northrop Grumman, the U.S. FDA, Texas A&M and College of the Mainland.
From 2022-2024 he led College of the Mainland to win its first-ever gold medals (4) in the NCMPR Marketing awards. He possesses a strong growth oriented mindset and is always looking for new opportunities to learn and make a difference.
Throughout his career, employers have routinely relied on Carl to conceptualize effective design solutions and proactively take the lead for critically important initiatives. These have included:
All of these projects and many others led to very successful outcomes.
Carl has proven his ability as an integral team player to collaboratively deliver strategic solutions for high-profile clients, executives and stakeholders. He has a desire to take every project to the next level ultimately striving to connect on all levels with target audiences. Carl has a solid track record of success as a creative director, adult learning expert, creative services manager, brand manager, marketing designer, environmental designer, graphic designer, multimedia designer, interior designer and landscape designer.
Carl possesses a strong proficiency in the following software and technology including Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, PowerPoint, Excel and Word.
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