Alex Haigh

Current

• Founder at HypeForType
• Founder at Thinkdust™

Past

• Freelance Senior Designer/Art Director at AKQA
• Freelance Senior Designer/Art Director at Dare Digital
• Freelance Midweight/Senior Designer at Tribal DDB

• Designer at Mook

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Education

• Sheffield Hallam University

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Industry

Design

Alex Haigh’s Summary

Currently taking a break from freelacing for agencies to concentrate on personal work for my own clients, the type foundry, and other fingers in pies...

Alex Haigh’s Specialties:

Graphic Design, Digital Design, Art Direction, Basic Front End Flash Animation, Design For Print, Corporate Identity, Print, XML, CSS, Thinking...

Alex Haigh’s Experience

• Founder

  HypeForType

  (Privately Held; Design industry)

  June 2009 — Present (8 months)

  Owner of the HypeForType type foundry, a back catalogue of over 300 top quality typefaces, and exclusive one off typographic creations in collaboration with highly established creatives including Non-Format, Alex Trochut, Research Studios, HelloHikimori, Jon Burgerman, Si Scott, and many more.

• Founder

  Thinkdust™

  (Design industry)

  June 2005 — Present (4 years 8 months)

  Design & Art Direction. Digital, Identity, and Print.

• Freelance Senior Designer/Art Director

  AKQA

  (Design industry)

  July 2009 — November 2009 (5 months)

  At AKQA I Art Directed a large part of the new global Heineken site (UCL) working under Senior Art Directors Nick Morland and Andrew Jones. I also helped them by producing over 160 unique 19th century assets for the new Sherlock Holmes website to celebrate the launch of the up and coming film release. The best team I have ever worked with.

• Freelance Senior Designer/Art Director

  Dare Digital

  (Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  February 2009 — May 2009 (4 months)

  At Dare I was Creative Lead on the global Sony Football site, supplying full Art Direction & Design. I also contributed in helping them win a huge pitch for the Sony Ericsson global digital account. Following this I also provided Art Direction alongside two other creatives for the new sonyericsson.com live site.

• Freelance Midweight/Senior Designer

  Tribal DDB

  (Public Company; OMC; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  August 2007 — December 2008 (1 year 5 months)

  Working as a freelance designer for Tribal DDB, I worked on a variety of campaigns for clients including Volkswagen, Guinness, Kelloggs, Captain Morgan alongside Art Directing a variety of projects for GlaxoSmithKline, Phillips, The Guardian, and The Observer.

• Designer

  Mook

  (Privately Held; Online Media industry)

  2007 — 2007 (less than a year)

  At Mook I worked on a variety of projects for Sony Playstation, Nike, Mars, Powerade and Ballantines.

Alex Haigh’s Education

• Sheffield Hallam University

  HND , Graphic Design , 2003 — 2005

  Most Outstanding Student award. Distinction in all project areas, 22 in total

  Activities and Societies:

  Distinction in all areas.

Additional Information

Alex Haigh’s Interests:

Concepts, Design, Typography, Working 20 hours days, Developing...

Alex Haigh’s Groups:

North Kingdom, Tribal DDB, HelloHikimori.

•    London Advertising & Design Group
•    DAHRA | Designers Against Human Rights Abuse
•    Digital Gurus London - The Community for Digital Media Folk
•    peas recruitment
•    Design Curation

Alex Haigh’s Honors:

FWA recognition for the contribution of to the Volkswagen global online website, alongside Tribal DDB. Work featured in industry magazines including Computer Arts, Computer Arts Projects, Digit, Advanced Photoshop, IDN, DJ Magazine, Digital Arts, Babyboss. Featured in Magma's "RGB Graphics showcasing the most exciting developments in Graphic Design within the UK, during the last few years" Spring 2009.

Showcase online recognition and praise from QBN, AisleOne, The Serif, NoisyDecentGraphics, Design Charts, Website Design Awards, Design Centre, HelloHikimori, Behance, Cpluv, ReformRevolution, Zeroin, ffffound, NTMY, Pixelsurgeon, Lounge72, Change The Thought, Dirty Mouse, Big Chase.

Alex Haigh’s Contact Settings

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