I'm Benjamin, a designer based in Barcelona, now working in GIS, cartography and data visualization.
For over ten years, I've designed interfaces, visual identities, editorial layouts, festival stages and the occasional VR game. Mostly for cultural institutions, public services and causes I cared about. I co-designed products that supported 53,000 people facing digital exclusion, and 189,000 literacy assessments across France. Design has been my language, and I intend to keep speaking it.
Maps are where I point that language now.
I was the kid who stopped at every map in his history and geography textbooks, and who read atlases for the details rather than the countries. Geospatial work lets me dig into the things I care about (climate, urbanism, conservation, energy) with the skills I already have: making complex information clear and readable. I work with QGIS, Python and spatial analysis every day, learning the stack and building my own projects, while design keeps paying the bills.
What a design background brings here is the two things that matter most when you turn open data into maps: the rigor and attention to detail that dense spatial data demands, and the visual communication that gets the work noticed and understood.
Design stays with me, of course. I'll still be judging every piece of typography I come across, still translating complex things visually. I'm moving from design as a job to design as a method, applied to data and geography.
If you work in GIS, cartography, spatial data or climate tech, please say hi! Same if you know someone who might need a data-viz person with a design background.
For over ten years, I've designed interfaces, visual identities, editorial layouts, festival stages and the occasional VR game. Mostly for cultural institutions, public services and causes I cared about. I co-designed products that supported 53,000 people facing digital exclusion, and 189,000 literacy assessments across France. Design has been my language, and I intend to keep speaking it.
Maps are where I point that language now.
I was the kid who stopped at every map in his history and geography textbooks, and who read atlases for the details rather than the countries. Geospatial work lets me dig into the things I care about (climate, urbanism, conservation, energy) with the skills I already have: making complex information clear and readable. I work with QGIS, Python and spatial analysis every day, learning the stack and building my own projects, while design keeps paying the bills.
What a design background brings here is the two things that matter most when you turn open data into maps: the rigor and attention to detail that dense spatial data demands, and the visual communication that gets the work noticed and understood.
Design stays with me, of course. I'll still be judging every piece of typography I come across, still translating complex things visually. I'm moving from design as a job to design as a method, applied to data and geography.
If you work in GIS, cartography, spatial data or climate tech, please say hi! Same if you know someone who might need a data-viz person with a design background.
If you want to get to know more about my experiences, here's my /linkedin and my /curriculum vitae
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In more than a decade of work, these clients, agencies & collaborators trusted me
Public sector & Scientific institutions
Cultural institutions
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