MAYDA

With a design-thinking approach born out of his first love of product design, Ben combines creative vision, technical knowledge, and curiosity for the new, to deliver innovative and thoughtful work across a variety of projects encompassing live-action, animation, VFX, and technology.
Ben has won direction, innovation, and VFX awards, and is one of the chief architects of the revolutionary BLACKBIRD®, the Cannes Gold Lion winning virtual car.

Ben is a Founder and Executive Creative Director at Mayda, a creative collective formed from the worlds of advertising, technology, film and gaming. Mayda recently was named #4 on the 2024 AdAge Production Company A-List.

According to early explorers, Mayda was a non-existent island in the North Atlantic that, despite appearing on several published maps at various points in history, was never actually found.

Aside from being a provocative name for a creative collective, Mayda is also a philosophy for working in an ever changing environment, embracing challenging conditions as a creative catalyst, and searching for innovation gold.