Summary
Benjamin Koditschek is a New York–based designer and ceramics educator with 11 years of professional experience blending graphic art, product UI, and tactile craft. He has led visual direction and production at Jacobin Magazine, run his own design studio since 2014, and teaches ceramics across multiple NYC studios, bringing a maker’s sensibility to digital and print work. Trained at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and holding an MA from the University of Chicago, he pairs rigorous art-historical thinking with hands-on studio practice. Known for clean aesthetic judgment and collaborative studio leadership, he translates conceptual critique into polished visual systems and functional objects. An underappreciated thread in his career is the continuity between editorial art direction and ceramics: both practices inform his focus on form, materiality, and human-centered aesthetics.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BFA, Design and Visual Communications, General, BFA, Design and Visual Communications, General at SAIC Early College
BFA, VisualCommunication Design & Visual Critical Studies, BFA, VisualCommunication Design & Visual Critical Studies at School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Master’s Degree, Art History, Criticism and Conservation, Master’s Degree, Art History, Criticism and Conservation at The University of Chicago