Benjamin Marra Email & Phone Number

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Clients: Rolling Stone Magazine, Playboy Magazine, Radar Magazine, Paper Magazine, Nylon Magazine, Marvel Comics, Oni Press, Vice Magazine, Time Out Chicago, Smash Magazine, The Bavarian State Opera, The Criterion Collection, Nike, Widen+Kennedy, WK12, Doubleday and Cartwright, Red Bull Creation, Stussy, Rachel Roy, Fuse Marketing, The New York Times Book Review, The New York Times Op-Ed Page, Brooklyn Rail, Philadelphia Citypaper, McGraw-Hill Book Publishers, Image Comics, Archaia Comics, Oni Press, Stones Throw Records, Gannett Newspapers, The Journal News, Rabid Rabbit, Vice (Italy), Esquire Magazine (Russia), Rock en Seine (France), Collection Revue (France), Voxer Magazine (Belgium), Large Magazine (Australia), Bongout Design Group (Germany), Code Magazine (Holland), Computer Blue (England), Bang Your Head (Belgium), Plin Tub (Belgium), Zeke Bazaar (Belgium), Violator (Brazil)

Greater Seattle Area

Author of TERROR ASSAULTER: O.M.W.O.T. (One Man War On Terror), AMERICAN BLOOD, NIGHT BUSINESS, DISCIPLES

New York, Ny

Addictive Pics and NeoText Books, New York, NY | 2018 to present• Provides concept art and developmental illustrations for various ongoing film and television projectsThe Education of Fredrick Fitzell (retitled Flashback, 2020), Toronto, ON | 2018 to 2019• Created concept artwork for the film The Education of Fredrick Fitzell (retitled Flashback)• Worked directly with writer/director Christopher MacBride on concept artwork for the monster featured in the film

New York, Ny

• Draws storyboards of advertisements and videos for the Multimedia department• Creates custom illustrations for special projects• Lead designer for various teams including: Cincinnati Reds (reds.com), Detroit Tigers (tigers.com), New York Mets (mets.com), Philadelphia Phillies (phillies.com) San Diego Padres (padres.com), Tampa Bay Rays (raysbaseball.com), Toronto Blue Jays (bluejays.com), and U.S. Figure Skating (icenetwork.com)• Designs marketing materials such as ticketing ads, emails, and social media images• Created mocks and production images for national sponsors such as McDonald’s, Budweiser, Cadillac, Volkswagen, Dove, Head & Shoulders, Target, and the U.S. Army• Created editorial photo-illustrations for Sports on Earth• Fluent in the current online technology, user experience, social media, and mobile application design• Former lead designer for Minor League Baseball• Redesigned entire 170+ sites of Minor League Baseball network of websites

Brooklyn, Ny

Titles: NIGHT BUSINESS, GANGSTA RAP POSSE, THE INCREDIBLY FANTASTIC ADVENTURES OF MAUREEN DOWD, LINCOLN WASHINGTON: FREE MAN, RIPPER AND FRIENDS, BLADES AND LAZERS

Greater New York City Area

• Co-teacher of Character & Empathy class in the MFA Visual Narrative program at School of Visual Arts• Class focuses on the creation and function of character in visual narrative using techniques found in improv and role-playing games

Bucks County, Pa

• Created illustrations and award-winning informational graphics for the 65,000-circulationdaily newspaper• Designed layouts for section fronts, including weekly At Home section from conception to completion• Lead designer of special sections on the subjects of education, tourism and business• Created original logos for article series• In charge of importing, restyling, and press production for the weekly Travel section• Provided illustrations for section fronts, and editorial cartoons for the Opinion page• Assisted in redesign of the newspaper

• Produced award-winning informational graphics for the 250,000-circulation daily newspaper• Worked on long-term news graphic projects, including a multi-part visual examination of the first death in an MRI Machine• Created original illustrations for Lifestyles, Business and Education section covers• Designed full-page special section covers

Master Of Fine Arts (Mfa), Illustration

Studied illustration, book-making, pre-press, silkscreen and comic book fundamentals, or sequential art. I studied under Marshall Arisman.

Bachelor Of Fine Arts (Bfa), Illustration

Activities and Societies: Ultimate Disc Studied Illustration, visual narrative and visual writing as well as the fundamentals of art, such.