Alexander Christian
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Alexander Christian

GraduateLondon, United Kingdom
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Alexander Christian
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Alexander Christian

GraduateLondon, United Kingdom
About me
Hi! I'm a designer from Battersea. I studied German and Portuguese at university, but in the end there was no doubt about what I was going to spend my working life doing. I'm self-taught and I'm always trying to learn more. I'm very lucky to have been able to collaborate with some of my amazing, creative friends on some of the projects here – and, after a year of freelance work, I'd love to start working in a studio and make some new amazing, creative friends. I spend way too much time reading about design, football, and the design of football, and I'm always trying to get my friends to listen to more old Brazilian music.
Projects
  • 36 Days of Type
    36 Days of TypeI took up the 2019 36 Days of Type challenge, designing every character from A-Z and 1-9 on 36 consecutive days. My challenge to myself? To give each character meaningful motion. The whole set can be seen on my Instagram.
Work history
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    Freelance Designer(Various)
    London, United KingdomFreelance
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    Editor/DesignerArtitious
     - Berlin, GermanyInternship
    Curated social network and marketplace for contemporary artists Wrote and translated editorial and sales copy Prototyped and coded changes to the website (HTML, CSS, Javascript) Kept the website up to date on WordPress Communicated with clients (artists and galleries) Designed and curated social media content Put together regular newsletter on MailChimp Worked on SEO and social media advertising
Skills
  • Digital Design
  • Print Design
  • Academic Writing
  • Critical Writing
  • Copywriting
  • Web Design
  • Graphic Art
Education
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    Summer SchoolPorto Design Summer School
     - Porto, Portugal
    Designed a chapter of and dust jacket for Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities Lectures and typographic and compositional exercises Attended course with professionals from around the world Taught by Andrew Howard, Hamish Muir (MuirMcNeil, 8vo), Catherine Griffiths, David Pearson (Type as Image)
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    BA German and PortugueseUniversity of Oxford
     - Oxford, United Kingdom
    Course based around literature, with special focus on Thomas Mann, Heinrich Heine, Fernando Pessoa and Eça de Queirós Developed skills in literary analysis and critical theory, translation, and written and spoken language Became fluent in Portuguese from scratch Third year abroad in Berlin, Lisbon & Porto Final mark: 2.1