Alex is a qualified BA (Hons) First Class graphic designer, self-taught experimental music maker and audio-visual artist inspired by nature. Experience includes: editorial design, copywriting, audio-visual artistry, content creation, branding, video and audio editing, motion graphics, media management, project and team management, performing arts. She is a confident individual and adaptable collaborator with 10+ years’ experience using Photoshop, 8 years with Adobe Creative Cloud, and 10+ years of self-taught music production and audio editing skills. Alex brings creativity to storytelling and a fervour for nature, with an active curiosity for how audio-visuals and tangible media can strengthen storytelling in digital and physical realms.
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Human experience, nature, mental wellbeing and connection are very much at the core of Alex’s work. Combining her performing arts background with her First Class BA (Hons) in Graphic Design [Arts University Bournemouth, 2019], avid interest in gardening and flourishing poetry, Alex uses audio-visual storytelling and multimedia abstraction to inspire explorers of her work to tap into their psyche, become sensorially aware, and unlock their curiosity for reality and fantasy worlds.
Deep-rooted in her fascination with phenomenology and immersive experience, Alex has incubated a strong and growing knowledge of the interaction between audio, visuals, movement, and nature, forging a firm belief that all four are inherently connected. Alex is currently exploring how these areas can collectively aid in positive mental wellbeing, and is excited to delve further into the science, research and visceral feelings of sound.
Taking an art-science approach, Alex continues to exercise and share her abstract audio-visual and sonic creativity via digital platforms, with particular focus on mark-making, nature sounds, and dark, ambient, cinematic and ethereal music.
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Projects
Work history
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Visuals Coordinator / Co-DirectorBloom in Doom Magazine
Southampton, United KingdomPart Time
Working with Magazine Directors, Editors and Social Media Team; close collaborative working with Visuals Director. Liaising with in-house illustrators for collation of digital content across website and social media. Weekly Team meetings via video call.
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Lead DesignerBloom in Doom Magazine
Southampton, United KingdomPart Time
Working with Magazine Directors, Editors & fellow Lead Designer to produce print-ready editorial design. Adobe Creative Cloud file syncing used to collaborate with fellow Co-Lead Designer while working on Magazine print publication. Creating InDesign templates & styles to be used for future publications; article setting, quality-checking resolution of all featured images, spine design & front cover layout design. Final export of Volume 3 sent to printers for printing of pre-orders.
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Education
BA (Hons) Graphic DesignArts University Bournemouth
- Bournemouth, United Kingdom
First Class Honours
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UAL Level 4 Foundation Diploma in Art and DesignBarton Peveril College
- Eastleigh, United Kingdom
Distinction awarded by University of the Arts London (UAL)