As of this week I will be saying goodbye to Ink Project. I have had a great 2 1/4 years there but felt it was time for a change, so as of July 1st I will be available for freelance and possibly full time employment.
I will be posting a link to my revised folio in coming days.
Please email benmakesmarks@gmail.com for any inquiries.
Here are some mix cd's I made - just a personal project to practice my collage.
The numbers 14, 17, 18 are the number of tracks on the cd but the number also informed my collage. They are representative of age and the interests of people at that age.
I was watching Leon aka. The Professional, the other day and loved the line 'love or death' - so I made a type treatment for it. I love the porcelain feel of it, it looks really fragile. This would look nice on a vinyl record cover all worn and beat up... might have to mock that up
These are some logos done at Ink Project for Sam's parents' new cafe in Berry - The Posthouse. There is also accommodation upstairs, hence, The Posthouse Rooms.
Here is a little illustration and some type experiments I made for my alias JAWS. I tend to make up little names and just make logos them - just a bit of fun plus it's good practice for mark-making
This is a channel I branded for TVNZ at Ink Project. I created the logo and look of the package with the team here and had a real neon sign made :) The whole channel is based on curiosity and the unexpected. I will try and track down a video of the package and the ID's - soon!
I wrote this the other day - was thinking of doing a little something with my buddy Josh called The Letter T's . Thought the word 'letter't looked nice so here it is... that is all.
This is a commercial directed by Ken Lambert of Ink Project - I helped ken create the look of the commercial and also designed all of the neon elements. Here are the initial styleframes for the neon and the finished commercial.
It won't let me upload the video right now - grrr I'll sort it out soon
Here is a font I created - very jungle-y. All of the letters have 2 versions - one with a heavy top weight and the other with a heavy bottom weight - this is so any combination of letters will fit together nicely.
This is one of the first projects I worked on at Ink Project. It is the rebrand of New Zealand's TVOne. I worked with Ken (creative director / founding partner) to create the package.
I will try and through up a montage if I can - it looks so much better moving.
This illustration was done at Ink Project - it is for a Wine/Tapas bar in Surry Hills. I drew the bull, the type and other elements were done by Rich Deighton and Ken Lambert at Ink Project.
This was one of the first projects I worked on at Ink Project. It is the brand refresh of UKTV - I worked on developing the look of the IDs and the channel packaging but didn't participate in production.