Designer. Photographer. Trainer. Former performer. Professional collector of weird visual things.
I'm David-Benji, a graphic designer based in Washington, DC.

I didn't take a particularly straight path to get here.
My background moves through performance, photography, fitness, music, and a handful of creative rabbit holes along the way. What connects all of them is something I've become pretty obsessed with: how people experience things. Not just how something looks. How it feels. How it communicates. What you notice first. What you remember later. That's ultimately what brought me to brand design.

I like brands that feel like somebody lives there. The work I'm most interested in isn't about making everything perfectly polished. It's about building visual systems with enough personality, flexibility, texture, and intention that they actually feel like they belong to the people behind them.

Sometimes that means typography. Sometimes it's photography, packaging, editorial design, illustration, or a weird texture I scanned off something I probably wasn't supposed to be scanning. Whatever the medium, the goal is the same: make something recognizable without sanding away everything that made it interesting in the first place.

Design is communication.
 

Working in fitness taught me something surprisingly useful about design: people don't always need more information. They need the right information presented in a way they can actually use.

Performance taught me to think about audience.

 

Photography taught me to pay attention. And design became the place where all of those things finally started talking to each other. Today, I work with artists, founders, small businesses, and emerging brands to build identities that feel distinct, usable, and genuinely theirs. Because your brand shouldn't look like it came from the same template as everybody else's. It should look like you.