Ben Arfur is undoubtedly one of my favourite contemporary graphic designers right now. The self taught designer’s bold work demonstrates strong visual collaborations between type, bold colour, imagery and illustrations. A lot of Ben’s designs supposedly come from thoughts dreams and loose ideas and he see’s graphic design as a good medium to “pull them all together and give them sense of practicality”. This is evident in his work and how intuitive and harmonious the combinations of type, colour and imagery are, his grid systems and layouts are all very intuitive as well. The types of projects Ben undertakes are really interesting to me as well, mostly lying within the realm of music branding and events. His use of 3d graphics and illustrations give his work a whole new sense of motion, dynamism and perspective.
Subjects to Cover in Questions
- Posters
- Design for Music
- Freelance vs. Studio?
- Being Self Taught
- Ideas
- Individual style
- Poster design has always been something a lot of designers are drawn to, its certainly a favoured method for contemporary designers to generate work. Do you think poster design has or will ever lose it’s value in an ever increasingly digital discipline?
- What personally appeals to you about designing work for musicians and music events, do you think music and and visual arts have an inherent connection?
- Being a self taught designer, what informed your creative process the most when you first started off? Did aspects like grid systems and typography come naturally or did you have to teach them to yourself in a more formal sense?
- I saw in one of your It’s Nice That articles you mentioned that you draw from experiences, sound and sometimes even vague dreams to create work. If you have a project and nothing is immediately jumping out at you, how do you generate and apply these ideas?
- To what degree do you subscribe to the idea of having a ‘signature style’ - should this be sought after by aspiring designer?
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