Benjamin Thomas

Director of Tokyo based design studio Bento Graphics Inc. Other social accounts:

[Benjamin Thomas @bentographics]

⚡Studio News:
Corporate identity refresh and SEO-optimized bilingual website for @nextleveljp, a sustainability-focused marketing agency based in Tokyo 🌳🗼

https://t.co/R97lLyxtE5

#Branding #CorporateIdentity #UIdesign #WebDesign #WebDevelopment #BentoGraphics

[Benjamin Thomas @bentographics]

@elemntor I'm interested in testing your AI Site Planner: https://t.co/CJvo2IH015.
Though, I keep getting an error after the initial chat part, see screenshot. I understand it's still a Beta, but is it currently broken or is there an issue on my side?

[Benjamin Thomas @bentographics]

Made the cut again, thanks!
Check out some other fun new year’s cards under the link:

[Spoon & Tamago @SpoonTamago]

Happy New Year of the snake 🐍
Here is a roundup of our favorite designer nengajo

https://t.co/3F2aX58ygh

[Benjamin Thomas @bentographics]

Welcome to 2025, the year of the snake!

Wishing all friends, collaborators and clients a happy, healthy and flavorful 2025!

今年も宜しくおねがいします！

二〇二五 🙌
アケオメ 🐍

https://t.co/Nx8YseinLn

#yearofthesnake #happynewyear #happynewyear2025 #yearofthesnake2025

[Benjamin Thomas @bentographics]

Portfolio Update ⚠️
Brand identity, Japanese-English bilingual corporate website, custom illustrations and animation for trustworthy AI startup @CitadelAI 🤖

https://t.co/l0HgDBgqZr

#vi #ci #ui #ux #development #webdesign #AI #trustworthyAI #japan #tokyo

[Benjamin Thomas @bentographics]

Enjoyed this: "Embracing imperfection and humour with heta-uma" by @ray_masaki.
Noticed this for a while e.g. design which is intentionally unpolished, oversimplified or formatted/styled opposing common practices. Makes me feel a little old 😅

#ヘタウマ

https://t.co/aBhKPrZWD5

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New Project: We created a visual universe for software company #Asial, including UI design for their new International corporate website, branding extension & a large range of custom illustrations and animations.
https://t.co/1GmY55oltI

#UI #Illustration #illustration #animation

[Benjamin Thomas @bentographics]

@guerriero_se @nucleoapp Thank you! They definitively are and it’s the reason we sent them your way. I’ll forward this and thanks for offering the previous icon pack.

[Benjamin Thomas @bentographics]

@nucleoapp (@guerriero_se)

We recently sent a client your way to purchase the awesome Nucleo icon pack (and app). Though, to our confusion it turns out that only the 18px sized icons are included now. What happend to all the other wonderful icon sizes?

[Benjamin Thomas @bentographics]

We specially sent them your way to purchase the icon pack since we've been using your 64px sized icons for their design. We would love the client to be able to search and select that size in the app. Is there any workaround, or can they request the previous icons with that size?

[Benjamin Thomas @bentographics]

Gorgeous selection and thanks for featuring us @Johnny_suputama!

[Spoon & Tamago @SpoonTamago]

Happy New Year of the dragon 🐉

Japanese Designer New Year’s Cards of 2024

https://t.co/tGTeSMxMmP

[Benjamin Thomas @bentographics]

Welcome to 2024, the year of the dragon! Wishing our friends, collaborators and clients a happy, healthy and flavourful 2024!

今年も宜しくおねがいします！

https://t.co/TDELRi3AFu

#happynewyear #happynewyear2024 #yearofthedragon

[Benjamin Thomas @bentographics]

Portfolio Update 🤖
Design and web development of a new bilingual corporate website for @rapyutarobotics, a Tokyo based robotics and automation market leader.

https://t.co/DMYEFXL3xW

#rapyutarobotics #robotics #automation #UI #UX #webdesign #development #tokyo #japan #casestudy

[Benjamin Thomas @bentographics]

@mrkirkland In another life I used @BuySellAds for @designmadeinjp. Check if it fits your needs

[Benjamin Thomas @bentographics]

@elemntor We use WPML, often for English & Japanese websites. Unfortunately Elementor lacks the ability to set up global (typography) styles for different languages.

Is there any news when this might be supported?

[Benjamin Thomas @bentographics]

Brilliant minimal signage system in the public toilets of Ueno park. The zoo is right next door which explains the animals.
But somehow cracked me up as well.
#signagesystem #graphicdesign #illustration #publictoilet #uenopark #tokyo #japan

[Benjamin Thomas @bentographics]

This is priceless #insultGPT

[Nick St. Pierre @nickfloats]

I found a far more interesting way to get questions answered in ChatGPT.

Introducing InsultGPT, the chatbot that hopes I choke on a fishbone next week at Providence.

[Benjamin Thomas @bentographics]

Portfolio Updates⚡
The Dignified Professional Network (DPN) hired us for visual identity and UI/UX design of their new membership site. DPN is a new business network based on the Happo-Yoshi philosophy, where 8 stakeholders benefit from collaboration.

https://t.co/rL5K4YaI91

[Benjamin Thomas @bentographics]

@gt @WeAreAirsideJP are fantastic! Reach out to @megafist.

[Benjamin Thomas @bentographics]

Obviously there's a huge question about ownership of sources, credits and remuneration if ChatGPT plugs the internet for knowledge. It essentially kills off website visits and thus affiliate/advertising revenue and perhaps some random shopping. Will AI eat itself?

[Benjamin Thomas @bentographics]

I fully understand why Google would be scared of #ChatGPT. It's just such a time-saver. Instead of sifting through dozens of websites links for answers, you get the answer(s) presented on a silver platter.

[Benjamin Thomas @bentographics]

And web search is just one use case for ChatGPT. It's slowly becoming my writing companion, spell and grammar checker, summarizer & rewriter, researcher & teacher, translator, personal assistant or joke generator.