Benjamin Crick

Benjamin Crick

Benjamin Crick

Graphic Designer @Apple, ex @COLLINS

I am a graphic designer with a fascination for craft at scale. I believe that great work springs from equal parts vision, art, and obsession for the details.

My work spans a diverse range of brands, from luxury boutiques to global giants — with particular recognition for the development of uncommonly artful, large scale visual systems. This work has been internationally recognized by D&AD, Graphis, AGDA, Communication Arts, The Type Directors Club, The One Club for Creativity, and the Art Directors Club — as well as notable features in Forbes, Fast Company, Creative Review, It's Nice That, and Brand New.

Designweek named my Brand Identity work for Spotify as "...some of the most globally defining to date".

In 2017 I was honored as an ADC Young Gun (Class 15). In 2019 Fast Company named the Mailchimp rebrand as some of the best design that year, and more recently my utopian sci-fi inspired reimagination of investment app Robinhood was included in the best work of 2020 by Brand New.

COLLINS San Francisco's work for Robinhood and the San Francisco Symphony won us D&AD Design Agency of the Year. The TDC named SF Symphony the best project of the year.

In 2021 I joined the Apple Design Team (the definitive authority on craft at scale) at their studio at Apple Park "one of the most faithfully guarded places of our time...a cradle of creativity and innovation, and the hub from which it shapes the world’s evolving relationship with technology."

Outside of my practice, I have judged for The One Club for Creativity, The Art Directors Club (ADC), The Graphic Design in China Award (GDC 设计奖), as well as the Society of Publication Designers (SPD). I live in abject fear of speaking publicly, and do so rarely. Notable instances include the Rise Up Summit in Cairo​, The One Club for Creativity's leadership conference in Arizona, and most recently at Brand New's First Round in San Francisco. I have recently found Podcasts a less intimidating alternative.

Art Direction

Visual Design