
Lead Designer
Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Lead Designer
Charlotte, North Carolina Area
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Angela Benton publishes BlackWeb20.com, a blog that analyzes emerging web trends as it relates to African-Americans and African-American culture. Her experience spans a variety of industries including consultative relationships with companies such as UPS, Bizjournals.com, Realestate.com, and Lendingtree.com among others.
Angela also speaks on topics such as diversity in the web and media industries, web trends, web strategy, and web 2.0’s effects on urban entertainment. She has participated on panels at conferences such as South by Southwest and Experience Music Project Pop Conference to name a few. She is presently leading design at RushmoreDrive.com.
Angela graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Communications with a specialization in Digital Design. She has also completed postgraduate coursework in Graphic Design from Savannah College of Art and Design.
She is a member of the National Association of Black Female Executives in Music and Entertainment and currently serves on the Management Board of the Charlotte Network as Membership Director. In her spare time she is devoted to bringing awareness to the lack of African-Americans who hold management and executive positions in the Design and Web industries.
Creative Direction, web strategy, branding, web trending, social media, viral marketing, diversity
(Internet industry)
October 2007 — Present (10 months)
(Internet industry)
August 2007 — Present (1 year)
(Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Graphic Design industry)
2000 — Present (8 years)
MFA, Graphic Design, 2005 — 2007
Completed Graduate coursework towards the MFA in Graphic Design program.
BFA, Visual Communications, Specialization Digital Design, 2002 — 2004
Graduated with Honors: Magna Cum Laude
AIGA, NABFEME, Black Web 2.0, 2008 SxSW