Alex Bec

Alex Bec

Co-CEO, The HudsonBec GroupUnited Kingdom
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Alex Bec

Alex Bec

Co-CEO, The HudsonBec GroupUnited Kingdom
About me
Alex Bec is the Co-CEO of the HudsonBec Group, which exists to enable creativity to thrive. The independent group includes media company It’s Nice That, creative agency Anyways and educational resource Creative Lives in Progress. He has an unwavering passion for giving opportunity and exposure to the best talent in the creative industry, from established names to rising stars – all three businesses continually strive to support this desire. Over the last ten years It’s Nice That has grown from a one-week University project to respected creative media company that reaches over a million people every month. Launched in 2011, Anyways has grown into an agency collaborating with the most influential companies in the world including Google, Nike, Uniqlo and BBC. Although in it’s infancy, Lecture in Progress started on an important journey in 2017 to help the next generation of creatives make better career decisions, and in time look to diversify the talent in the industry. Alex has also worked as a Visiting Creative Director at Wolff Olins, been awarded a D&AD yellow pencil and a nomination for the prestigious Designs of the Year award at the Design Museum, for which Alex is also a member of the judging jury. www.thehudsonbecgroup.com www.itsnicethat.com www.anyways.co www.lectureinprogress.com
Projects
  • Converse - Chuck Taylor Zine
    Converse - Chuck Taylor ZineTo celebrate the launch of the All Star Chuck '70, we created a printed zine to be shared in Converse stores throughout Europe and South Africa. As vibrant colour expression and disruption are central themes to the Chuck 70, we decided to hide explosively colourful illustrations within a clean and traditional french folded booklet. Readers had to literally tear through the pages to view illustrations from artists such as Hort, Leslie David, Jordy van den Nieuwendijk, Lakwena, Santtu Mustonen, Pa
  • COS - Milan Salone
    COS - Milan SaloneTo celebrate their return to Milan's internationally renowned Salone Del Mobile in 2013 COS asked us to conceptualise, art direct, and manage the delivery of a pop-up concept store installation for 40 hand-selected COS garments. Located in the vibrant Ventura Lambrate district we wanted the installation to be a 'comma' to frantic city life in Milan. The approach was to mirror the COS design ethos through contrasting tactile materials constructed in a simple, functional and visually lightweight w
  • Selfridges - Words Words Words
    Selfridges - Words Words WordsINT Works in collaboration with Stewdio
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Projects credited in
  • Get career advice from It’s Nice That, Dazed, D&AD, Rankin & more
    Get career advice from It’s Nice That, Dazed, D&AD, Rankin & moreLooking for career advice? Excitingly 30+ incredible experts from across the creative industries have generously agreed to help answer your burning career-related questions. So, if you have a career question (examples below) that you’d love the best in the business to help with, just post it here on our Asks hub! Our ‘Asks experts’ include: Priya Matadeen - General Manager, Commercial, Dazed Holly Tucker - Founder, Holly & Co Alex Bec - Co-founder, It's Nice That Gemma Greaves - Chief Executive
  • Top 50 companies to work for in 2021
    Top 50 companies to work for in 2021Looking to kickstart or pivot your career in 2021? We’ve put together a list of 50 top companies to work for! We formulated this list by using insights from the popularity of companies and the jobs they post on The Dots, topped off with a dash of our team’s wisdom and a good mix of brilliant charities and pro-social companies. Be sure to follow your favourites to stay up to date with their events and all-important job opportunities!
  • Top 50 Companies to work for in 2020
    Top 50 Companies to work for in 2020This New Year, do you want to nab that dream job? Well, to kick off 2020 we’ve put together a list of 50 top companies to work for! In order to connect you to lots of brilliant opportunities this year, we formulated this list by asking the community, using insights from company follows, topped off with a dash of our team’s wisdom! Make sure to follow companies that you’re interested in, to stay up to date with events and all-important job opportunities!
  • Top career advice from 20 icons in design, photography, fashion & more
    Top career advice from 20 icons in design, photography, fashion & moreLooking for career advice? A mentor? Some friendly and constructive feedback? We got you! Excitingly 30+ incredible industry experts across publishing, photography, design, creative, fashion, music, marketing, digital, tech and more are on-hand to help answer your burning career-related questions in our Asks hub. Meet 20 of them below and discover their top tips! So, if you have a career question that you’d love the best in the business to help with, hop this way.
  • Top 20 career tips to help you kick-start 2020!
    Top 20 career tips to help you kick-start 2020!Last year we launched our Asks Hub after being inundated from our community for career advice. We’ve had thousands of questions and and tens of thousands of answers so far – highlights include words of wisdom from industry legends such as: Priya Matadeen (general manager, Dazed) Alec Dudson (founder and editor-in-chief, Intern Magazine) Jade Tomlin (creative director, AKQA) Alex Bec (co-founder, It's Nice That) Rankin (founder, RANKIN) Vikki Ross (copy chief) And many more! Check out these t
  • Nike Discovery Lab
    Nike Discovery LabWe used play to explain Nike innovation to young people.
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Work history
    Anyways Creative logo
    Anyways Creative logo
    DirectorAnyways Creative
    London, United KingdomFull Time
    Anyways is a London based creative agency. We're all about understanding brands, to deliver creative solutions with meaningful results. We've helped global brands to: - Create compelling content - Increase product awareness - Enhance cultural credibility - Engage a creative audience - Inspire and inform internal teams - Sell more products - Create new products
    It's Nice That logo
    It's Nice That logo
    DirectorIt's Nice That
    London, United KingdomFull Time
    It’s Nice That is a publishing platform that encompasses several different online, print and events offerings as part of its mission of championing creativity across the art and design world.
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Skills
  • Marketing PR
  • Art Direction
  • Visual Communication
  • Creative Direction
  • Concept Development
  • Graphic Design
  • Graphics
Education
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    Foundation Degree, Art/art Studies, GeneralThe Arts Institute Bournemouth
    Bournemouth, United Kingdom
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    Bachelor of Arts Graphic DesignThe University of Brighton
     - Brighton, United Kingdom