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Welcome to the premiere issue of Studiobenben News. It's been a busy summer. Read on for the details...

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--->Current Exhibition
Manual, my MFA Thesis Exhibition, is now open until August 18th at the Moss-Thorns Gallery of Art in Hays, Kansas. A special thanks goes out to everyone who helped with the exhibition. You can view images of the show here.

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--->New Work
Preparations for the MFA Exhibition kept me busy for most of the summer leaving little space for other projects. However I did find time to create an illustration for Von Glitschka's upcoming design book "World of Textures: 55 Stunning Photo Textures to Use", which will be published by How in 2007. I was one of 55 artists who were each assigned a texture to incorporate into a design. It was a blast to create! View the illustration here.

Glitschka or ‘Vonster’ as most people know him, is a major inspiration in my work and it’s an honor to be a part of one of his projects. I was also thrilled to be one of five artists Vonster awarded a Three Thumbs Up Award to. If you’re an illustrator or designer I suggest checking out his site as it’s a great community and a chance to gain valuable feedback and exposure for your work.

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--->Store News
New goods available in the store: Robot 107 poster and Home Sweet Home print. Also, a ton of button badges are now available via prickie.com.

Littlepaperplanes.com is now carrying a few items from my store. The prices are the same as my site so if you want to pick up some works by other artists as well, this may be the place for you. The site is run by Kelly Lynn Jones, a talented painter and fashion designer from Los Angeles.
Also in LA, Gallery Revisited has several of my products. If you are in the area, stop by and enjoy.

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--->Upcoming Projects
A variety of projects are currently taking shape in the studio. One in particular that I’m very excited about is the opportunity to work with the talented Marcel Salathe from Switzerland. We're collaborating on a series of poster designs based on his wonderful website graphing applet. The applet looks at the structure of any given website and generates a beautiful graph in return. You can give it a try here. The results are amazing and the imagery should adapt well to a poster series. I was first introduced to Sala after I stumbled upon his innovative onethousandpaintings project. He’s an extremely bright individual and I look forward to our collaboration.

-Ben Schlitter

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