Mark James

Mark joined D&CO in 2019, bringing over 20 years of experience as a creative director and brand strategist. Mark’s work in brand development, identity design, digital design, and print collateral has been recognized nationally and internationally by The American Institute of Graphic Arts, The Type Director’s Club, Graphis, and others.

His client engagements have included design, branding and digital work for Harvard Business School, Solidworks Corporation, American Express, MetLife, Verizon, Physicians for Human Rights, and many technology start-ups. Prior to joining the D&CO team, Mark held in-house creative director roles at CVS Health, Mass Mutual Financial, and the Harvard Innovation Labs. Mark also serves as a consulting creative director to Santa Fe Workshops in New Mexico.

Passionate about design education, he has taught visual design and design thinking at The University of the Arts, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, and currently is an adjunct professor at Lesley University’s College of Art and Design in Cambridge, MA where he teaches a two-semester class of visual communication.

Mark is an accomplished photographer, shooting mainly editorial and portrait assignments, and is never without a camera. When it’s time to break from design and image-making, he is often on his road or mountain bike, or on skis in the winter. The pile of half-read books on his nightstand seems to be growing taller but he swears he is making progress!