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No matter how far a jackass travels, it won't come back a horse

About Me

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BlueObjectDesign = no more. Benny Yarnell, freelance designer = begin.

I'll have a new website up soon. You can still view my old work at www.blueobjectdesign.com for the time being.




My Interests

everyone knows I like foreign girls and good food!

THE GODDESS LIST

AMBRA

OKSANA

MONICA

AUDREY

NATALIE

KEIRA

MIA

AZAM

I'd like to meet:

Oksana Akinshina, Chris Bangle & Adrian van Hooydonk, Mathew Barney, Anthony Minghella (RIP), Mamoru Oshii, Azam Ali, Michael Ondaatje, Kristoffer Rygg

Music:

I'm currently listening to...

SEABOUND - double crosser

COVENANT - northern light

HECQ - 0000

ULRICH SCHNAUSS - goodbye

IN STRICT CONFIDENCE - exile paradise (hecq destruxxion)

TRENTEMØLLER - the trentemøller chronicles

AZAM ALI - elysium for the brave

CONETIK - carbon electriq v2.0

PORTISHEAD - dummy

HAUJOBB - vertical theory

JARS OF CLAY - much afraid

OPETH - blackwater park

ULVER - shadows of the sun

FRANÇOISE HARDY - la question

LADYTRON - witching hour

DE/VISION - devolution

WOLFSHEIM - casting shadows

SNEAKER PIMPS - splinter

ZAO - liberate te ex inferis

MASSIVE ATTACK - mezzazine

IRIS - awakening

NIYAZ - niyaz

RAY LAMONTAGNE - till the sun turns black

ENDUSER - form without function

WORM IS GREEN - automagic

NATALIE WALKER - urban angel

BROADCAST - haha sound

MONO - formica blues

GARBAGE - version 2.0

...and some other strange stuff

Movies:

If you look at the directors list below, you'll know what type of movies I like. If you don't follow directors, some examples of my favorites are The Fountain, The English Patient and The Double Life of Véronique. I'll get around to a formal list here one of these days.

I am obsessed with The Criterion Collection. The films, the transfers, the treatments, and of course, the packaging artwork.

Books:

Right now I'm in the middle of 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' (recommended by Leah) and Ondaatje's 'The English Patient'. I bought 'Snow Falling On Cedars' and 'Reading Lolita in Tehran' but haven't read them yet because I'm sort of a slow reader. Ostentatious, I know.

Heroes:

DESIGN

Asterik Studio/Invisible Creature | UserDX | WeWorkForThem | Dstrukt | Hydro 74 | Devoid of Yesterday | Kris McKaddon | Cancerbox | IndustriArts | Carolynn Loeppky | WitchHunter | Dave McKean | Travis Smith (Seempieces) | Jason Oda (Starving Eyes Inc.) | Christophe Huet | The Hejz | Steve Trujillo (Kalos Interactive Design) | Stanley Lau (AnimalSquare/Imaginary Friends)

FINE ARTS

Alphonse Maria Mucha | Gustav Klimpt | John Singer Sargent | Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) | Maxwell Parrish | Lucong | Alex Kanevsky | Lynn Heitler | Gerhard Richter

DIRECTORS

Alain Resnais | Jean-Luc Godard | Eric Rohmer | Michael Mann | Danny Boyle | Terrence Malick | Paul Greengrass | Krzysztof Kieslowski | Luc Besson | Chris Cunningham | Mamoru Oshii | Jane Campion | Víctor Erice | Stanley Kubrick | Robert Bresson | Alfonso Cuarón | Vittorio De Sica | Roman Polanski | Vilgot Sjöman | Jean Renoir | Ridley Scott | Terry Gilliam | Gaspar Noe | François Truffaut | Gus Van Sant | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | Scott Hicks | David Fincher | Michael Haneke | Steven Soderbergh | Guy Ritchie | Walter Salles | Andrei Tarkovsky | Kenji Mizoguchi | Ingmar Bergman | Alejandro González Iñárritu | Michel Gondry | Hiroyuki Okiura | Christopher Nolan | Federico Fellini

My Blog

"extra" design work

Typically, when I am commissioned to do cd art, the deal includes design of marketing materials using the theme of the album. Such materials can be animated web banners, flyers, posters, myspace profi...
Posted by BennyYarnell" on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 06:06:00 PST

DC10 ad design

I recently completed an ad for Denver club/lounge DC10, which required several major steps and some outside-the-box thinking on my part (I don't normally do "colorful" or "glamorous"), and many people...
Posted by BennyYarnell" on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 08:20:00 PST