Benjamin Shown

Greater Boston Area United States

Creative Director at Blink

Design

As creative director at Blink’s Boston office, Benjamin Shown leads envisioning projects wrestling with topics such as brand expressed as software, ephemeral media, and dynamic typographic systems. Previously, he worked on future design concepts at Microsoft’s Envisioning Lab and as an exhibit designer at the Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle. Ben loves collaboration, heady problems, Murphy beds, grids, typography, unity, and variety. He is an alum of UW’s visual communication design graduate program and currently lives in Somerville, Massachusetts, with his wife and 3-year-old son, Percy.