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Ben has eight years agency experience in design, press advertising and direct marketing across a broad mix of clients including Apple, Universal Records, BBC, HP and BP.

Ben, along with Tom Marrows, founded Citizen Design in 2002 and joined Creation in 2003. His work has been featured in both Computer Arts and Mac User magazines.

Hey Advertisers…

cake.jpg…if you run out of ideas why not float your product in the sky and have shots of commuters looking up at it all puzzled, back it with an acoustic soundtrack say… Nick Drake and you’re done.

If you hurry you might only be the billionth person to do it.

Bob Dylan and the Inspiration Five

blank.jpgSome days it’s really hard to feel inspired and other days I’m unstoppable. When I’m down and I need a hand the 5 things that inspire without fail are;

1. A Deadline
Nothing inspires me more, without a deadline I’m nothing, and as soon as it looms over me I catch fire. […]

My Notebook Hierarchy.

notebooks.jpgIt’s about time we talked about my strict Notebook Hierarchy. If you could just open the picture on the left in a separate browser window.

You will be needing it as a reference.OK working from the far left we have my Day Book, this is the largest of the notebooks and […]

Maps, We Can Create - Follow up

we-can-create.jpgYou may remember a couple of months ago I posted my first blog entry about a competition calling for people to enter a redesigned piece of album artwork for a record cover I’d designed. It made me kind of anxious.

Anyway I’ve decided to enter the competition with one […]

The only brand I ever trusted.

barberstuff_10-10-2006.jpgPutting your faith in a brand is a dangerous business. In the end they don’t owe you anything, it’s all smoke and mirrors and behind what you thought was a life affirming decision is normally a bunch of smarmy marketing squares in sharp suits smoking cigars you paid for. The brand that had […]

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