Benjamin Critton is the first speaker in the Museum of Arts and Design’s new series in collaboration with AIGA/NY’s, Owner at Self: Adaptive and Innovative Design Practices. Critton received his BA from Hamilton College in 2006 and his MFA from the Yale School of Art in 2011. Benjamin Critton Art Department (BC AD) was founded in 2012 as an art and design practice / service focusing on collaborations with and commissions from patrons in the fields of academia, art, architecture, fashion, film, furniture, hospitality, music, and publishing. The studio’s client-based work in printed matter, publications, typography, identity design, object creation, and interactivity is supplemented by independent and interdependent initiatives in publishing, writing, editing, research, curation, and pedagogy.