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Alex Williamson is an artist, designer, and art director who creates compelling multi-layered visuals, transforming complex, nuanced material into visually dynamic stories.
Always open to new connections, novel collaborations and opportunities, Alex brings his distinctive interpretation to exciting and ambitious projects. Working across sectors from Museum Design to Motion Graphics, Brand work to Editorial Illustration, he creates bold and original work that surprises and connects with audiences, turning intricate ideas into intriguing, accessible designs.
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Originally a printmaker, Alex uses both digital and analogue processes to build on this heritage. He has a distinctive visual language, using cut out, collage and print techniques to combine and manipulate images and type in unexpected ways. Intricate, layered narratives and powerful visual ideas are created at the intersections of colour, form, texture, mark-making and the photographic image.
Alex draws on an extensive personal archive of found and self generated graphic material and often collaborates with photographers, news agencies or museum collections to source job specific photographic or archival content in order to create bespoke artworks for his clients.
Themes:
His work explores contemporary themes of culture and social engagement and is grounded in making the intangible tangible, helping audiences see things in new ways to connect, question, and empathise.
Whether working on longer projects designing immersive graphics for museums, art directing moving image based visuals for live music performances, or creating quick turnaround editorial illustrations, Alex works collaboratively with a range of creative partners and clients to craft exciting graphic work for the page or screen.
Collaborations:
Recently working with designers Casson Mann on ‘Showtown: the museum of fun and entertainment’ in Blackpool, Alex created eye-catching graphics and immersive large scale artworks to enhance the audience experience, visually weaving together the museum’s interactive exhibits, objects and stories.
He also recently undertook an artist residency at University of Arkansas, Fort Smith where he created the research project ‘American Ghosts’ producing a series of collage based, immersive multi-media structures, an exhibit exploring the local area, steeped in the history of the American South, through its historical archives.
As an art director and motion designer he works with Curtis Marrs, recently producing music videos and live concert visuals for Noel Gallagher.
As an illustrator he is represented by Debut Art in the UK and USA.
Other clients:
Royal Mail, Adobe, Adidas, Guiness, Virgin, Omega, Bank of America, Diageo, The World Health Organisation, The IFRC, Southern Poverty Law Centre, Rolling Stone Magazine, New Scientist, The New Yorker, The Guardian, Wall Street Journal, Portobello Books, Random House, The Science Museum, Faber&Faber, The Economist, Vodafone, Amazon, Penguin, ITV, The Atlantic, Design Bridge
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