Ben Weeks
| Ben Weeks | |
|---|---|
| Born | Benjamin Weeks Toronto, Canada |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Canadian |
| 🎓 Alma mater | Sheridan College |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| Notable work | They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children |
| 🌐 Website | www |
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Ben Weeks is a Canadian artist, illustrator, art director and motion designer. He is known for large scale drawings and paintings.
Early life and education[edit]
Born in Toronto, Weeks grew up in Limerick, Ireland before returning to Canada. He later studied Art Fundamentals, anatomy for animators and illustration at Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario and was awarded a Master’s Degree in Creative Imaging by Sir Patrick Stewart at Huddersfield University in England on full scholarship in 2004.[1] While a student, Week's work won awards from Applied Arts, Coupe and American Illustration.
Career[edit]
Before starting in Toronto, Ben worked at Attik in England with founder James Sommerville.
James won a startup grant from Charles, Prince of Wales, awarded by The Prince's Trust, before growing the agency to a sale of $30 million to Dentsu in 2007[2][3] along with Ric Peralta and Simon Needham. James now is Global VP design at Coca-Cola. At Attik, Ben worked on advertising creative for brands including Toyota Scion, AOL, Smith Barney and Nike.[4]
After leaving Attik, Weeks started his own company in 2005 in Toronto. His 80 page continuous line drawing for PEN Canada's Annual report with Jim Ryce and Gary Beelik of Soapbox led to a national campaign for Honda. He created book and magazine illustrations, advertising campaigns. Weeks illustrated They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children by Roméo Dallaire[5] and contributes to publications like The Walrus, Bloomberg Business Week, The Atlantic and New York Times magazine, as well as creating motion design and business strategy consulting.
In 2015, documentary film director Mark Bennett created a short film based on Ben’s work, "The Illustrator".[6] In 2017, Ben released a compilation of his motion design artwork for organizations such as Toronto Star, Cossette, Inc., Juniper Park, Desiring God, and Staples. Ben designed the cover and interior artwork for Juno Award nominee jazz musician Laila Biali’s 2010 album Tracing Light.[7]
Weeks serves on Sheridan College’s Professional Advisory Committee, has chaired judging for its grad show exhibitions and worked with non-profits like YMCA, Habitat for Humanity, PEN Canada, TD Bank First Nations School Programs and College Track.
Awards and recognition[edit]
For his work, Ben was awarded by D&AD with 2 Wood Pencils,[8] Advertising and Design Club of Canada with 2 Golds, 2 Silvers and 10 merits, Association of Illustrators's Silver Award,[9] American Illustration with 3 selected, 2 chosen), Applied Arts, Coupe, Design Edge Canada, Creative Review and Communication Arts magazine. His work has also been published in books by Taschen,[10] Index Book, Die Gestalten Verlag[11] and Princeton Architectural Press.[12]
Ben's work has appeared in exhibitions juried by Tim Marlow, the Director of the White Cube in London, England; Simon Groom, Head of Exhibitions at Tate Liverpool; Robert Smigel, Saturday Night Live Animation Director and David Liss, Artistic Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto Canada in Toronto.
References[edit]
- ↑ "Brilliant adverts". 2010-04-14. Retrieved 2017-07-29.
- ↑ O'Leary, Noreen (2007-10-26). "Dentsu Acquires Attik". Adweek. Retrieved 2017-07-29.
- ↑ Lepitak, Stephen (2012-09-11). "Attik co-founder James Sommerville walks away from Dentsu agency after 26 years". The Drum. Retrieved 2017-07-29.
- ↑ "Creative masters launched". Times Higher Education World University Rankings. 2002-05-03. Retrieved 2017-07-29.
- ↑ Dallaire, Roméo. They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children. Hutchinson, 2010.
- ↑ Bennett, Mark (2015-04-19). The Illustrator.
- ↑ Goddard, Peter (2012-02-09). "Laila Biali and the womanly wave in jazz". The Star. Retrieved 2017-07-29.
- ↑ "Ben Weeks Has Many Loves". D&AD. Retrieved 2017-07-29.
- ↑ "Ben Weeks". AOI. Retrieved 2017-07-29.
- ↑ Wiedemann, Julius (2011). Illustration NOW! 4. Cologne: Taschen. pp. 428–429. ISBN 978-3836524230. Search this book on
- ↑ Antoniou, Antonis (2014). Visual Families: Graphic Storytelling in Design and Illustration. Berlin: Gastalten. ISBN 978-3899555400. Search this book on
- ↑ Perry, Mike (2008). Over and Over: A Catalog of Hand-drawn Patterns. Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 978-1568987576. Search this book on
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