A portable screen printing press, or "factory", designed by Rotenda Nevhutalu and Benjamin Edgar produced by Caliper in Madrid, commissioned by BEAMS T Japan. Kohei and Mika of BEAMS T commissioned Benjamin Edgar to design a portable screen printing press that could travel to their various locations around Japan for events, installations, etc. A simple brief of the final object needing to be durable enough for 10-15 years of use, should feel a bit like a sculpture, should be very Benjamin Edgar, and that we should effectively design without any real limitations. Inspired by our love for the processes, machines, tools, and factory environments where our commercial objects are made, as well as the intense bright colors used on factory floors for systemization and safety. We leaned into this to create something that almost appears as if it were a small rolling factory itself. The end result shown is visually and structurally intense, heavy, over-engineered, functional, purposeful, brutal, abstract, and very orange. The final object also found inspiration in the philosophical meaning of a screen printing press. Many creators in the scenes of the arts, design, streetwear, this new industrial design movement, etc use screen printing press as an their first tool to a non-tangible concept and make it real at scale. The graphic t-shirt is the initial canvas for so many creative minds.

Graphpaper Japan commissioned Benjamin Edgar to create a simple and direct collaborative t-shirt. The concept is an overly literal take on what a collaboration between two brands ultimately is: two companies weaving themselves together to create a specific product where the sum is greater than the parts. In this instance, the idea was to simply weave our names, our practices, and our history together. The end result is an elegantly confusing yet still familiar jumble of words. Completed in 6 different colors via a flocked transfer lettering, to give a sense of each letter being on object itself, onto either white or black Graphpaper t-shirts. 

BEAMS T Japan commissioned Benjamin Edgar to create a six piece capsule collection, a few store exclusive objects, and a large-scale mural. All to be on view and available for purchase over the course of a week at their Masamichi Katayama designed space in Harajuku Tokyo.

J.Crew commissioned Benjamin Edgar to create 3 piece capsule inspired by a love for the massive fresh water “ocean” of Lake Michigan that downtown Chicago sits against. A nod to a somewhat perpendicular boating, water, and beach culture found in Chicago and the ever-classic New England / East Coast take J.Crew often references.

An internal commission / exploration in material, story, and identity. A hand holding a cube, the most obvious “object”, is effectively my Ralph Lauren Polo Horse. Super high resolution solid cast bronze of a super low resolution 3D print. Idea is a museum-quality sculpture in “zine” form I suppose. A copy of a copy of a copy, etc. Sprue element preserved to exaggerate its process of being made / enhance its honesty as an object. Production, West Supply Foundry Chicago. CAD Modeling, Irene Gaume. 3D Printing, Larry Tchogninou. 32 lbs. 18 in. x 12 in. x 7 in. 

RIMOWA Japan commissioned Benjamin Edgar to create an abstraction of their classic aluminum suitcase for their "As Seen By" group art exhibition, which began at Art Basel in Miami and subsequently traveled to various international cities. Inspired by an obsession with either “literalism” or maybe just reduction. The concept was create the most reduced version of a RIMOWA case by referencing what it started as - raw aluminum in a factory - and also what it ends as - this zeitgeist standard of the best suitcase. The logo of elegant travel perhaps. Theconcept was furthered by creating an over-engineered shipping pallet found in any factory, rendered in beautiful, hand-finished, Baltic Birch fine-grade plywood. Placed atop the pallet is the hand-finished, raw 6063 aluminum, referencing the solid extruded rounds of aluminum that represent the material's birth state before it's worked into sheets to construct a RIMOWA suitcase. The tubes were then organized in a pattern that appears almost as a high-resolution version of a blurred image of the instantly recognizable RIMOWA product if the viewer squints. Production assisntance from Max Arkin and Jordan Shepard.

Benjamin Edgar's edit of chair number 3 for the 19 CHAIRS exhibition in London. The chair, titled, “Tired, but quite optimistic" is an abstraction of what was a rather simple wood slat chair with a nod to sensation of both the individual seated and the chair itself being especially exhausted as shown in the warpping while still being deeply optimisic as shown with the vivid blue color. Benjamin's edit was one of 19 presented by artists from around the world at a showcase in London where they were auctioned for charity.