As co-founder, strategist, and lead copywriter at BS LLC, Ben helps turn insights into deliverables. Ben is both a student and practitioner of human-centered design. For close to a decade, he has helped nonprofits, businesses, and institutions create strategies for growth based on internal reflection, external research, and creative problem-solving. Born and raised in Cincinnati, Ben holds a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. from Northern Kentucky University’s Salmon P. Chase College of Law. He is a member of the board of directors at the Mercantile Library, Breakthrough Cincinnati, and MORTAR.
As lead strategist & creative director of BS LLC, Sebastien Hue translates client goals into achievements. Born in Kentucky, he went on to study Linguistics & International Relations before earning an MBA from ESCP Business School. He is certified in Disruptive Theory by Harvard Business School. During his studies, he spent nights and weekends working in some of the world’s best kitchens in Chicago & Paris, including Taillevant, Lasserre, Charlie Trotters, Blackbird Restaurant, Le Francais, and L’Escargot Montorgueil. With international experience in technology & business consulting, he went on to serve as the creative director at Boca Restaurant Group advancing with them from 70 to more than 500 employees and a multi-city footprint before joining paths with Ben and opening BS LLC where he oversees creative direction and strategy. He is a board member at the Cincinnati Opera and Cincinnati Memorial Hall Society.
Graphic designer, copywriter, adjunct professor, photographer, executive creative director, adult continuing education instructor, strategist , Sam has contributed to numerous agencies serving a diverse range of roles for at least two lifetimes worth of national and global B2B and consumer clients. Simplifying complex, multi-stakeholder environments are his specialty, providing clarity and human behavioral insight to creative and business-building endeavors.
Liam is a Designer with BS LLC. Liam graduated from Northern Kentucky University with a BFA in Visual Communication Design. He has spent the last 8 years as a visual creative with competencies in photography, communication design, typographic design, and user interface/experience design. Born and raised in Louisville, KY, Liam now lives in Covington with his wife, Chelsey. Liam enjoys traveling, visiting art museums, and live music.
BS LLC is an integrated strategy, marketing, and design agency located in Downtown Cincinnati. Drop us a line if you’d like to visit us at the office, meet our team, or grab coffee.
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At BS LLC, we are driven by a desire to never stop learning, questioning, and discovering. For each new project we take on, we design a specific research approach that allows us to look deeply at the subject through four lenses: the client’s current authority (their product, service, values, identity), the client’s competitive set, the client’s audience or customers, and the cultural context in which the client finds themselves. This 4-way method of researching new projects underpins all other creative and strategic endeavors. We believe art can be anything, but design has to be something, and technology is a mirror and a tool to be harnessed.
Always be learning. We are committed to the idea that we don’t know everything, not even close. Mean what you say. We are committed to communicating with clarity and honesty, with regularity and transparency. Increase beauty. We are committed to creating new work for our clients and ourselves with spirit and intention. A stone unturned is a promise unfulfilled. We are committed to observing deeply, wading through the minutiae, and digging into the depths of the unknown to discover insights that lead to breakthroughs. Helping is itself a goal. The urge to succeed and prove it drives us, but we are forever grateful for the fact that our job is essentially to help people solve problems. Technology is a mirror. Zeros and ones are only as useful as the human placing them in order, we use technology to solve problems, we don’t let technology use us to become problems. Leave it better. We are trying to tread lightly, plant more trees, be nicer to one another and strangers, we’ll let you know how that goes. Assume positive intent. Trust first and ask questions later.
Who’d have thought that BS could be so rigorous and thoughtful? But it’s true; we have a mindful method for getting to know each client and the relevant aspects of their branding, marketing, design, and strategy challenges. If you’re curious about what it’s like to have us as your business-building, design-enhancing, or strategy-defining team, step through these 6 sequential articles. You’ll learn how we start virtually every client engagement, and why we do it.
