Taryn Cowart

Taryn Cowart

Design at Figma in Portland, OR, She/her

Work Experience

2022 — 2023

Creative leader and people manager on the Brand Studio wing of GitHub’s Brand & Marketing Design team. A team of eight, we work on our marketing site, campaigns, events, merch, brand infrastructure, illustration, and integrating our brand into the product experience.

2019 — 2022
Portland, OR

Creative leadership, people mentorship and management, and new business development at a 400–person digital agency. Clients included Apple, Epic Games, Greenhouse and Pace Gallery.

2018 — 2019
Portland, OR

Design leadership for One Medical, Intercom and Google.

2017 — 2018

Rumors was an award-winning design and technology studio that placed equal emphasis on content, community, and behavior. We mainly focused on interactive projects for organizations in the cultural and editorial space like Verso Books, Bomb Magazine, NASA and Unity Technologies.

2014 — 2017
Portland, OR

Senior designer on Ace Hotel's chaotic and experimental in-house creative team. Work spanned hotel marketing efforts, event campaigns and installations, artist collaborations, restaurant branding and environmental design. Developed signage, brand systems, design and artist research for properties in New Orleans, Chicago, Toronto, Brooklyn and Kyoto.

2011 — 2014

Education

2006 — 2010
BFA Design, Minor Women's and Gender Studies at University of North Carolina at Greensboro