Ben Barnes
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Identity × campaigns × art direction

Building identities that stay recognizable as they change.

Selected identity, campaign, web, and environmental work showing how visual ideas create recognition, invite participation, and perform across channels.

Amplify Decatur Music Festival stage environment

Outcome proof

+60%
conversion lift associated with Georgia Urology HIFU
$575K+
directed to local nonprofits through Amplify Decatur
100+
public programs supported by the Atlanta Science Festival identity
Role
Creative Director / Art Director
Focus
Identity · Campaigns · Web · Art direction
Throughline
Visual systems built to scale across formats and years
02

Atlanta Science Festival

A public-facing identity built to make science feel energetic, accessible, and unmistakably local.

I helped shape the festival’s visual language across campaign, editorial, event, and experiential touchpoints. The identity made complex science feel approachable across a 40+ page event guide, more than 100 public programs, wayfinding, social content, print, and on-site experiences.

Atlanta Science Festival campaign poster
Campaign poster
Atlanta Science Festival event booklet spread
Event guide
Atlanta Science Festival magazine spread
Editorial campaign
Atlanta Science Festival schedule spread
Program system
Atlanta Science Festival mascot at Delta aircraft
Experiential activation
03

Amplify Decatur Music Festival

An identity designed to stretch across artists, seasons, stages, and a growing community event.

The visual system needed enough structure to stay recognizable year after year, but enough range to let each artist and season feel distinct. The identity extended across posters, web, advertising, stage graphics, and signage as the festival helped direct more than $575,000 to local nonprofits.

Amplify Decatur Music Festival logo
Identity
Amplify Ben Harper concert poster
Ben Harper campaign
Amplify Mavis Staples and Jeff Tweedy concert poster
Mavis Staples + Jeff Tweedy campaign
Amplify Decatur identity symbol
Identity mark
Amplify Lucinda Williams concert poster
Lucinda Williams campaign
Amplify Decatur stage branding in use
Festival environment
04

Georgia Urology

A conversion-focused campaign connecting digital experience with a broader healthcare marketing system.

The HIFU campaign moved across web, print, and out-of-home. The digital experience was designed around a clearer path to action while the broader campaign kept the message and visual language consistent across channels.

The HIFU experience was associated with a 60% lift in conversions.

Georgia Urology HIFU microsite design
Conversion-focused microsite
Georgia Urology HIFU out-of-home campaign
Out of home
Georgia Urology HIFU magazine advertising
Print campaign
05

American Oncology Network

Translating a healthcare brand into a responsive digital experience.

The responsive website carried the healthcare brand across desktop, tablet, and mobile while creating clearer paths for two distinct audiences: patients seeking care and physicians or practice leaders evaluating the network.

American Oncology Network responsive website across desktop, laptop, tablet, and mobile
Responsive web experience
06

Coca-Cola

Promotional design built to work inside one of the world’s most recognizable brand systems.

These retail and motorsports assignments demonstrated how to create fresh campaign energy inside a tightly governed global identity. The outcome was work tailored to specific promotions and environments without weakening Coca-Cola’s immediate recognition.

Coca-Cola Indianapolis 500 promotional point-of-sale work
Indianapolis 500 promotion
Coca-Cola My Coke Rewards point-of-sale campaign
My Coke Rewards promotion