Ben Frank

Current

Broadcast Designer/Animator at CMT / MTV Networks
Owner at benfrank: design & photography

Past

Sr. Web Designer at CMT / MTV Networks
Art Director at Inpop Records
Intern at ATTIK

Junior Designer at Northcutt & Associates

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Education

Watkins College of Art & Design

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Ben Frank’s Summary

Growing up in a wondrous land filled with dragons and butterflies, young benfRank found himself armed only with a camera. He began to defend himself from the dastardly critters with the blinding light of the flash. As it turned out, he got some pretty cool pictures and thus began a deep love for the art of photography. He soon began spending his allowance on silly things like film and photo developing, rather than the more useful things purchased by his peers (baseball cards, He-Man toys, BB guns, etc.). When the time came for him to ride his trusty steed (Ezmerelda, an '88 Toyota Camry) off to college, he took his cameras with him. While earning his degree in graphic design, our intrepid hero took numerous classes in photography, discovering a fascination for experimenting in the darkroom.

Since college, our fearless knight has been on many great quests, doing freelance print and web design for a great number of music industry nobles and spending time as an art director for a record label. He began to shoot many of the photos for his design projects himself, increasing his love for photography. His heroic history provides him with a unique vision and distinct understanding of the importance (and mystical power) of a fantastic image. Currently a broadcast designer and animator for CMT, benfRank plans to seek out as many photographic adventures as possible, hoping to devote most of his nights and weekends to this worthy crusade. benfRank currently lives in his castle in the land of Nashville, TN with his savage lady and two enchanting canine beasts.

Ben Frank’s Specialties:

Art direction (including film/video direction), print design, web design, photography, motion design, broadcast design and animation, editing (film & video), cinematography

Ben Frank’s Experience

Broadcast Designer/Animator

CMT / MTV Networks

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Entertainment industry)

June 2007 — Present (2 years 2 months)
Owner

benfrank: design & photography

(Design industry)

June 1998 — Present (11 years 2 months)
Sr. Web Designer

CMT / MTV Networks

(Design industry)

January 2006 — May 2007 (1 year 5 months)
Art Director

Inpop Records

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Music industry)

January 2002 — February 2005 (3 years 2 months)

I was the art director for inpop records from jan 02 - dec 02 and then again from june 04 - feb 06. while there i was in charge of all creative aspects of the label from album packaging to artist websites.
Intern

ATTIK

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Design industry)

June 2001 — July 2001 (2 months)

This was an internship at the attik new york office the summer of 2001. i did a lot of production as well as created online teasers and advertising for NOISE4.
Junior Designer

Northcutt & Associates

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Design industry)

August 1999 — September 2000 (1 year 2 months)

As it was my first job, I did mostly production work a typesetting for Northcutt & Associates. This was a small firm in Nashville but handled a lot of work for large clients like Bridgestone tires including a quarterly magazine for them.