Multidisciplinary creative with five years helping Project Exodus tell its story through documentary film, brand design, and front-end development. Directs recovery-focused documentaries, shapes brand/visual language, and builds real interfaces—learning what each project needs and caring about both impact and craft. Facilitates addiction-recovery groups as well as facilitator-training workshops, and prefers work that feels meaningful to the people it serves. Now seeking a team or mission worth building for across design, media, and product-style front-end.…

William Owen

Multidisciplinary creative with five years helping Project Exodus tell its story through documentary film, brand design, and front-end development. Directs recovery-focused documentaries, shapes brand/visual language, and builds real interfaces—learning what each project needs and caring about both impact and craft. Facilitates addiction-recovery groups as well as facilitator-training workshops, and prefers work that feels meaningful to the people it serves. Now seeking a team or mission worth building for across design, media, and product-style front-end.…

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Multidisciplinary creative with five years helping Project Exodus tell its story through documentary film, brand design, and front-end development. Directs recovery-focused documentaries, shapes brand/visual language, and builds real interfaces—learning what each project needs and caring about both impact and craft.

Facilitates addiction-recovery groups as well as facilitator-training workshops, and prefers work that feels meaningful to the people it serves. Now seeking a team or mission worth building for across design, media, and product-style front-end.

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Language

English
Fluent

Work Experience

Photographer & Graphic Designer, Multimedia Creative & Front-End Developer at Project Exodus
April 1, 2021 - Present
Supports a faith-based addiction-recovery organisation across film, design, and web. Helps shape brand and visual systems, produces and captures photography and design assets, and—most recently—contributes front-end development in a Next.js monorepo rebuilding the organisation’s digital ecosystem. Work includes roughly 13 weeks across a public website and internal apps (Bridge, Group Finder, Group Register) that launched in May 2026. Personally built a shared component library and a Resources page, led UI/UX implementation, and handled day-to-day GitHub workflow. Also facilitates recovery groups and adapts sessions for facilitator training.
Photographer & Graphic Designer (Multimedia Creative & Front-End Developer) at Project Exodus, Durban
April 1, 2021 - Present
Photographs and designs across Project Exodus, supporting its addiction-recovery mission. Also acts as a front-end developer to rebuild and maintain the organisation’s digital ecosystem. Key contributions include directing documentary storytelling and supporting brand/visual identity work, and later expanding into component-driven front-end implementation using a Next.js monorepo. Built a shared component library and implemented key UI/UX surfaces, managing GitHub workflow (PRs, UAT) and day-to-day development tasks. Contributed to internal apps such as Bridge, Group Finder, and Group Register, which went live in 2026, replacing legacy platforms. Additionally facilitates recovery groups and supports facilitator-training sessions.
Junior Graphic Designer (Internship) at JIMBU
November 1, 2020 - February 1, 2021
Directed and produced a series of 30-minute documentary films sharing real recovery stories—covering planning/logistics, cinematography, editing, colour grading, and sound design (including two that aired on TBN Africa). Built the organisation’s video presence with a teaching series (16–18 episodes), online courses (SGF and ARTI), and motion-graphic explainers for its software. Led part of the brand/visual language direction and helped redesign the public website ahead of an in-house rebuild. Produced ongoing design outputs for operational needs (event banners, signage, merchandise, apparel, social/promo campaigns, print), and supported events and portraits behind the camera.
Junior Graphic Designer (Internship) at JIMBU, Durban
November 1, 2020 - February 1, 2021
Intern graphic designer at a design procurement agency. Directed and produced a series of 30-minute documentary films covering real stories of recovery, handling planning/logistics, cinematography, editing, colour grading, and sound design (two aired on TBN Africa). Helped build the organisation’s video teaching presence, including a 16–18 episode teaching series, online courses (SGF and ARTI), and motion-graphic explainers. Also supported brand and website redesign efforts, and produced day-to-day design outputs like event banners, signage, merchandise, apparel, social/promotional campaigns, print, and event coverage. Collaborated with a small team and covered photography/portraits as needed.

Education

National Diploma in Graphic Design at Durban University of Technology
January 1, 2018 - January 1, 2020
National Diploma in Graphic Design at Durban University of Technology
January 1, 2017 - January 1, 2020

Qualifications

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Industry Experience

Media & Entertainment, Non-Profit Organization, Education, Software & Internet
    Bridge, a Motion Graphics Overview

    A motion-graphics overview of Bridge, Project Exodus’s group-management platform for recovery groups. Under three minutes, one section at a time.

    Rebranding DavidJames.Africa

    DavidJames.Africa approached me to help rebrand their identity with a fresh look that aligns with their values and principles. The goal was to create a visual language that is modern, approachable, and distinctly African while ​​​​​​​maintaining a professional tone that resonates with their target audience.

    Based on provided information, I established a brand voice using the key words ‘human’, ‘innovative’ and ‘African’. For the logo, I emulated the key words using aesthetics from a fingerprint, ripple, and the African continent, respectively. I crafted a minimalist and contemporary visual identity, balancing a modern look with African aesthetics. ​​​​​​​

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    Stories of Recovery: Documentary Films

    Two thirty-minute documentaries, each one a recovery story. I worked them from the first planning call through to the final colour and sound. Both aired on TBN Africa.