Brand Carpenter is a Creative Director/Director from Southern California, currently based in SLC, Utah. He has a multidisciplinary approach to brand strategy, creative direction, and campaign development. Brand is drawn to brands, projects, and collaborators with shared obsessions in culture & community, research & development, and art & design. He deliberately keeps his methodology non-formulaic and unfocused.
Unknown Exit
The Kind of Man Who
Terry Urban Collection
High Vibrancy
The Garage
Brand has a deep passion for building community. He runs a pop-up theater project called Plastics that brings “movieheads” together to watch films on 35mm, 16mm, and VHS, celebrating a shared love of cinema and physical media.
BFA Graphic Design
2020
President / Co-Founder of Graphic Design Club
Creative Director / Co-Founder
Feb 2024 - Current
Plastics Theater Project
President / Co-Founder
September 2025 - Current
Thread
Creative Director
July 2023 - August 2024
Art Director
May 2021 - July 2023
Senior Designer
August 2019 - October 2020
Utah Valley University
Adjunct Professor (BFA Capstone 1)
2023 (Spring Semester)
Super Top Secret
Graphic Designer
October 2020 - May 2021
Graphic Design Intern
May 2019 - August 2021
Fast Fill Systems
Graphic Designer
February 2017 - July 2019
Brand Strategy
Creative Direction
Campaign Development
GTM Strategy
Art Direction
Production Design
Commerical Film Director
Cinematography
Photography
Commercial Film Producer
Film Editor
Graphic Design
Motion Design
Brand Marketing
Growth Marketing
Time Management
Team Collaborator
Strategy & Planning
Thread
Notom
Stack Athletics
Gravel Travel
Shaun White
Vulcan
Wasatch
Evora Watches
Lander
Vanlife
Mophie
Spylt
George Davies Studio
Super Top Secret
Delirium
Plastics
Project “Cyber Communification”
AIGA 100 Show
Salt Lake City, Utah
2020