John Carl Martin with his artwork

Film · Music Video · Fashion · 30 Years

JMARTIN
DESIGNS

When the world is quiet, you learn to read everything else.
That is where JMartin Designs began.

Select Credits
Missy Elliott Jay-Z Destiny's Child Don Cheadle Fergie Warner Bros.
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About

Art. Fashion.
Resilience.

JMartin Designs is a life expressed in art, founded by multidisciplinary artist and designer John Carl Martin, who is hearing impaired, and who has spent over three decades translating what he sees into fashion, film costumes, murals, portraits, and brand identities that stop people mid-stride.

From a tailor's apprenticeship in Barbados to the film sets of Warner Bros. and the music video sets of Missy Elliott, Jay-Z, Destiny's Child, and Fergie — the JMartin story is one of craft, vision, and a different kind of listening.

John Carl Martin
The Legacy

Four Chapters.
One Vision.

The LA Era, Selected Credits
Don Cheadle · Ocean's 13    Missy Elliott · Work It · Pass That Dutch    Destiny's Child · Bootylicious    Jay-Z · Concert    Gwen Stefani · Hollaback Girl    Will Smith    Fergie · Fergielicious    Jennifer Lopez    Gap · Missy Elliott & Madonna    Audi · Justin Timberlake    Brand Jordan · Carmelo Anthony    Don Cheadle · Ocean's 13    Missy Elliott · Work It · Pass That Dutch    Destiny's Child · Bootylicious    Jay-Z · Concert    Gwen Stefani · Hollaback Girl    Will Smith    Fergie · Fergielicious    Jennifer Lopez    Gap · Missy Elliott & Madonna    Audi · Justin Timberlake    Brand Jordan · Carmelo Anthony   
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The Work

Here Is
The Work.

Every piece begins with attention, to the person, to the wall, to the shape a story needs to take.

"He moved through a hearing world with his eyes. And what his eyes saw, no one else could translate."

- John Carl Martin

What's Possible

How We Work
Together.

Commission a Piece

A portrait. A mural. A custom wearable. You bring the vision, or we find it together. Every commission begins with a conversation and ends with something made to last.

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Creative Counsel

Thirty years across art, healing, storytelling, and teaching have shaped a particular way of seeing. These sessions are for creatives, founders, and makers who need more than advice, they need clarity. A perspective forged by a full life.

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Brand Architecture

Before a website. Before a logo. Before a single pixel, there is a story. Brand Architecture is the work of finding that story, shaping it into identity, and building a digital world that holds it without apology.

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