Benjamin Kinzer Email & Phone Number

San Francisco Bay Area

Collaborating with the team at 21st Amendment to shape the future brand of 21st Amendment. • Responsible for helping guide the brand strategy, story, purpose and vision.• Collaborate with internal team to explore future beverages.• Lead, guide and integrate our visual identity system in conceptual strategy, art direction and design.• Guide team through conceptualizing campaigns and working with the marketing manager to activate and measure results.• Collaborate with team on how to improve current marketing channels and explore new channels or campaigns to broaden our audience reach.• Collaborate with team, brand designers, and agencies to ensure the most impactful and consistent representation of our brand in design, videos, customer stories, packaging and other collateral.• Manage design resources, vendors and external teams.• Act as a mentor and motivator that encourages collaboration within the marketing/creative team and cross-functional teams.• Help set and contribute to the goals of the marketing/creative team• Lead and contribute to projects that range across partnerships, corporate branding, events, and branded content to ensures a consistent and strong creative narrative for the brand.

Santa Barbara, California Area

Working collaboratively with clients to create a unique approach to communicate their passion through design and art direction across a variety of mediums from print to online media. Short client list: Easton Baseball, Jem Organics, JUJU, Adobe, King Estate Winery, Ale Apothecary

Bend, Or

Developing the brand visual language of JUJU http://go.sharethejuju.com. Working with team of developers to create a new UX/UI for JUJU. Developing future products, strategies and revenue models.

Bend, Oregon

I worked on a variety of projects, but the best part of my job at TBD was the people I worked with. I was both a designer, an art director, writer, and occasionally an illustrator. We loved the concept and we fought relentlessly to make our ideas happen, and they did. Worked on a variety of campaigns for brands like Deschutes Brewery, Swisswater Decaf, and American Licorice Company.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Helping moderate and provide technical support for front-end development (i.e. CSS and HTML) discussions for Cargo Collective during Beta launch.

I worked directly with the Creative Director and small teams creating strategically focused brand identity systems. This is where I learned my appreciation of typography, the grid and the passion for refinement.

Redmond, Oregon

Helped in developing voice recognition software for personal computers.

Helped in assuring customer satisfaction by conducting transactions in a timely fashion, managed the floral expression of the gas station, stocked and maintained visual cleanliness of product placement, and ensured that all elderly receive nothing but outstanding service.

Helped in managing a small Corn crop for a privately owned farm. Mastered the art of siphon, maintained water levels, inspection of crop and helped around as needed on the farm. Became an expert in pig ball dodging.