The Designers: Accept & Proceed’s Benjamin Lee on pre-internet design, thinking differently and more

The Designers delves deep into the world’s leading design studios through a series of in-depth conversations with the individuals that make them tick. For the fourth interview in the series, we spoke to Benjamin Lee, a senior designer at London-based studio Accept & Proceed. EM: Hi Ben. Can you tell us about your background, and how that led to you becoming a senior designer at Accept & Proceed? BL: I landed in London around 2006 and after three years I graduated from CSM (broke) and jumped into a Junior Art Director role at Ogilvy in the capitalist utopia that is Canary Wharf. The irony of it still makes me laugh, as my entire three years at CSM had been devoted to developing my output around anti-corporate narratives. After a year or so I had the chance to move to a much smaller, independent studio where I had the opportunity to work within the record industry, so it was a no brainer really, from there I moved around a few studios until I eventually got chatting to the AP gang and I’ve been there for around three years now.