Website bencopperwheat.com | ||
Occupation Print designer and artist | ||
Ben Copperwheat is a UK-born print designer / artist living and working in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York City.
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Career
Copperwheat began his career by teaching textiles in the fashion department of Northumbria University in England. Upon arriving in New York City in 2003, he worked as a print designer for Calvin Klein Jeans where he also designed print collections for Stephen Burrows, Sue Stemp and Peter Som. From 2009–2012, he collaborated with his cousin, Lee Copperwheat on their own fashion label, COPPERWHEAT. As a freelance print designer, his work is commissioned by celebrities like Beyoncé Knowles' daughter Blue Ivy Carter (for the Super Bowl in 2016), Boy George (for his 2016 Culture Club Tour), and Liza Minnelli (for New York Magazine in 2007). He is also an adjunct instructor at New York University.
Education
Ben Copperwheat graduated in 2001 with a M.A. Printed Textiles from the Royal College of Art in London.