Matt Owens

Matt is a founding partner and creative project lead at Athletics. A Texan by birth, Matt studied Graphic Design at the Cranbrook Academy of Art before moving to New York in the heyday of Silicon Alley. In New York, Matt developed self-initiated design projects including some now featured in SFMoMA’s permanent collection, and worked with clients like Sony, Nike, and The Cooper Hewitt, among others. Matt founded Athletics in 2004 with Jason Gnewikow. At Athletics, Matt has led projects for clients including Music Together, The Pulitzer Prizes, and JP Morgan. In his spare time, he can be found sketching custom-type designs and developing new ventures like Kingston Standard, an upstate-based brewing company founded in 2018.