Ben Deter

Nick Cave: Sojourn is a multi-sensory, immersive installation that transports visitors through a magical world of imagination. And to begin this experience, we collaborated with the artist on a a title wall to set the stage. The 30-foot wall covered in kaleidoscopic wallpaper is pierced by the show-title’s letterforms providing the viewer a “through-the-lookingglass” glimpse into the first gallery. The letterforms are 2.5 feet deep and veiled on the back-side by a screen of buttons that tie it to the exhibition on a material as well as an emotional level. Housed in the Precourt Gallery of the Denver Art Museum, the collaborative installation with Cave, Second Skin, is the perfect hand’s on experience to follow his immersive exhibition. The room itself is a visual treat from the kaleidoscopic wallpaper to the to the pixelated FLOR-covering, but it’s the child-sized, three-dimensional forms and floor to ceiling felt wall intended to be embellished by little hands that brings the space to life. Inspired by analog grade-school activities, troughs full of colorful felt cutouts can be patterned, felt to felt, on the forms and wall so that visitors can imagine, realize and then redo their own creations over and over.

Art Direction
Nick Cave
Bob Faust
Ben Deter

Design
Ben Deter

“What the !$#*?” was the concept the School of the Art Institute posed as the driver for a cultural branding campaign for Fashion 2013. While this idea represents the department’s continual boundary pushing, it also gave us permission to turn “expectations” on its head, literally. The primary image is presented either upright with upside down text or vice versa. We also created a magazine with dual orientations, first as a magazine of students work and second (flopped) as the program of events for the gala fundraiser and fashion shows themselves.

Art Direction
Bob Faust
Ben Deter

Design
Ben Deter

An experience created to showcase Rider Dickerson’s capabilities through a “Show, Don’t Tell” presentation. More Than Ink is an “unzippable” package with a custom perforation that houses an origami inspired folder based on the ”more than” symbol that unfolds into a full-sized, full-color poster. The quality story is communicated through authentic story telling as well as visually through multiple print processes and finishes on various paper stocks.

Design Director
Bob Faust

Designer
Ben Deter
Dave Pabellon

Recognition
FPO Awards
FPO
Super Cool Fold of the Week

Patterned silk scarves and leggings designed for the SoundsuitShop Seattle Art Museum opening were created using details of Soundsuits, helping transfer the experience to your own body.

Design Director
Nick Cave
Bob Faust

Designer
Ben Deter

Each piece in what is now a visual playlist of “Truluv”-themed posters is a reflection of my gut responses to particular songs; they are meant to be quick glimpses into how I visualized the song through the filter of my emotions at a particular moment in time. Some are somber, others are funny.

To see more of this project visit itstruluv.com. To purchase any of these posters visit my shop.

Designer
Ben Deter

The new Faust website takes queues from the previous site but showcases the work much more prominently with the use of scalable full-screen imagery, and collapsible menus and description boxes to provide an unobstructed view of the work.

Design & Art Direction
Bob Faust
Ben Deter

Development
Robb Irrgang

Recognition
STA Chicago Design Archive

This (Un)Viewbook for Roosevelt University reflects the uniqueness and diversity of the school. A series of fourteen booklets can be connected to each other through the use of a vertical pocket on the back cover, making the book customizable to each individual prospective student’s various interests.

Design Director
Bob Faust

Design
Ben Deter
Dave Pabellon

Recognition
STA Chicago Design Archive
FPO
Educational Advertising Awards

Through a series of stories, both verbal and visual, “Ken Carls. Public Designer. Private Artist.” weaves together drawings, collages, and graphic design pieces into a highly personal — and sometimes unexpected — biography. The immersive experience transformed the Center’s lobby into a kiosk of over 10 years of his design work and set the stage for an unique exhibition experience. Every surface was affected, including a 30 x 70 foot cinder block wall covered floor to ceiling with over 700 laser prints of his writings that created a kinetic wall of paper fringe.

Art Direction & Curation
Bob Faust
Maria Grillo

Designer
Ben Deter