Ben Woods
He/ Him
A Seattle based artist and designer who got their start in designing geeky goods for tv, movie, and video game licenses. He continues to design goods for a wide range of clients and styles and continues to expand into concept illustration.
Illustration
Concept Art
Character Design
Logo Design & Branding
Product Design
Graphic Designer
DPI Merchandising | June 2022 to Present
Working with our sales team in the US and Europe to produce compelling and competitive concepts to secure new licenses and partners.
Senior Designer
Catalyst Marketing | October 2021 to May 2022
Producing concept art and custom illustrations for our largest clients including Torchy’s Tacos, T-Mobile, Blizzard, Supercell, and others.
Lead Designer
Catalyst Marketing | June 2019 to October 2021
Expanded production capabilities with soft good manufacturing experience.
Graphic Designer
Catalyst Marketing | August 2017 to May 2019
Generated unique graphics, illustrations and brand assets for a wide range of clients
such as Facebook, Valve and T-Mobile.
Created fast and efficient layout for print and factory production.
Product Developer and Designer
The Coop | January 2014 to October 2016
Designed across a wide range of products and graphics and used understanding of current legal requirements for product, client style guide needs, and active product testing and quality control of each sample to create finished product and exemplary design.
Thoroughly researched materials and fashion trends to create product lines that defined the geeky product market, blind boxes and the ThinkGeek online store.
Product Designer
The Coop | October 2016 to August 2017
Designed new product lines of bags and custom molded vinyl toys.
Lead contracted artists to define new toy aesthetic for the company for limited edition blind boxes for LootCrate and other sellers.
Developed new project management system in Wrike with company wide visibility of active projects and assisted other managers in day to day scheduling. Trained company users and refined system to increase company engagement and ease of use.
Education
Workshop Academy
Futurepoly
University of Kansas - Industrial Design Bachelors of Architecture