BEN DITTO

• @ben_ditto insta
• Concrete rep (represent him, administration etc.
• Ditto Press 
• Creative Director 
• 24-25 started doing evening classes in graphics, 6 years later it became a degree 
• he is more of a visual communicator but graphic design is the basis of what he does
• Worked for vice 
• started own magazine called fun 
• after doing his masters he realised he was really interested in publishing which he ended up pursuing 
• He started his own print company, Ditto Press 
• Use the money from printing for people, to publish their own stuff 
• Printing was extremely stressful and did not benefit from the global recession 
• They had got a really good reputation but it was too much, Ditto Press remains as a publishing company 
• Opened up his own gallery 
• Began working with a fashion designer, Delara Findercole and created a logo and textual designs 
• He really enjoyed working with fashion designers and still continues to work in the industry 
• Mushpit he art directed with two of his friends 
• Artificial Influencer for Wired 
• Isomayer French, make- up artist contacted him for collaboration for Dazed Magazine. 
• Did a lot of logos and letterforms for the zine and used very organic strange shapes. Made it from chrome 
• Gets paid to do commercial work 
• He doesn't always get paid to do his zines and stuff, but he uses it as a way to show off his work 
• He usually has the ideas and then directs other people to bring together his ideas, finds collaboration key for making his ideas successful 
• He makes all the designers for the design, he gets really involved with all aspects of the design 
• The band 1975, he met their manager for a drink and he was asked to design some content for their music video, he's directed 3 of their videos and a lot of onset design 
• The birthday party was produced with motion capture
• NOACF commissioned a lot of artists to respond to different tracks on the album 
• Spectacular reality
• Blender for CGI, 
• Fluid simiularion 

Task:

𝕮𝖗𝖞𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖈 𝕽𝖊𝖉

Cryptic Red is a Tumblr account that essentially posts gifs and photographs that depict the red aesthetic. Following the style of the aesthetic is edgy, mysterious, warped and distorted imagery, the sounds also add to the tone the visuals set. This was my chosen persona because its something I just like looking at and embeds a lot of my personality that I would not post to my personal social media a little bit how Ben used Telegram. There is not much censorship on Tumblr which means I can post a range of content without worrying about it being removed. The Black letter styled typeface is common amongst the red aesthetic and also keeps in touch with the edgy theme. 

https://cryptic-redd.tumblr.com