Alexander Engzell

Designer

Tallinn, Estonia

Member since March 2, 2017

Alexander has been a designer-of-the-year nominee for four years in a row and he's won Breakthrough Designer of the Year in 2014, Swedish Designer of the Year in 2015, and Visual Designer of the Year in 2016. Words like powerful, stimulating, and daring come to mind—also beauty and magic. Engzell is a designer with a hefty number of awards, an impressive client list, and a philosophy. He practices what he preaches.

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Portfolio

Vogue
- Website Redesigns
- Fashion & Beauty
- Responsive UI
- Photoshop 2017
- Illustrator 2017
- After Effects CC
- Wireframing
- Web UX
- Sketching
- Blog Design
- Digital Publishing
- Project Management
- Team Management
Adrian Gee
- Web Design
- Branding
- Responsive
- Responsive Web Design (RWD)
- Blog Design
Bonne Marque
- Web Graphic Design
- Branding
- Copywriting
- Award-winning
- Logotype
- Responsive UI
- Responsive
Hunter Farmer
- Web Graphic Design
- Illustration
- Branding
- Design
- Graphic Design
- Copywriting
- Responsive
Involve Digital
- Web Graphic Design
- Graphic Design
- Responsive
- Digital Design
- Image Manipulation
- Copywriting
JD&Co
- Website Redesigns
- Responsive
- Branding
- WordPress
- Graphic Design
- Art Direction
- Creative Direction
- Brand Guidelines
BetSafe
- Branding
- Advertising & Marketing
- Banner Design
- Print Design
- Graphic Design
- Pitch Deck
- Web Graphic Design
- Responsive
- Poster Design

Employment

Creative Director
2017 - 2018
Rosie Lee
- Led the creative team.
- Grew the Amsterdam office.
- Managed and was in charge of the Nike x JD account.
- Managed and was in charge of Infinite Objects—our online retail shop with curated products from our favorite creators.
Technologies: Creative Direction, Art Direction, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator
Founder | Creative Director
2008 - 2017
Bonne Marque
- Founded and led Bonne Marque--an experience that has been full of awards, responsibility, creativity and, when I think of the businesses and brands we’ve helped succeed, pride.
- Received, as an agency, over 50 industry awards in the past 3 years. We launched the first ever digital-first launch of Vogue. Won Swedish Agency of The Year in 2015, Agency Site of The Year in 2016.
- Was personally nominated for Designer of The Year four years in a row. I was awarded Breakthrough Designer of The Year in 2014, Swedish Designer of The Year in 2015, and Visual Designer of The Year in 2016.
- Designed for clients, such as: Adidas, BBC, BMW, CERRUTI, Citrix, Condé Nast, GUESS, Nuance, Manchester City, Microsoft Azure, OxFam, Teachers Mutual Bank, Toni & Guy, Vogue, and Virgin Media.
Technologies: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, InVision
Creative Director
2011 - 2013
Creon
- Grew the creative department from 3 to 11 people.
- Brought all photography in-house to a state of the art studio that I built.
- Helped pioneer 360° photography for an eCommerce in a exclusive collaboration with Goecker.
- Led several big photoshoots for lookbooks and our in-house magazine.
- Won Agency of The Year twice, during my 2.5 years as creative director.
- Designed for clients such as: Atlas Copco, Arla, Cargotec, DeLaval, Johnson & Johnson, SAAB Group, Schwarzkopf, and Tele2.
Technologies: Photoshop, Lightroom, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, Cinema 4D, InVision
Art Director
2005 - 2008
Freelance Work
- Started out doing mainly branding work for startups in Stockholm.
- Implemented a great deal of image retouching for fashion brands, a year later in London.
- Designed Ritz-Carlton’s first iOS app.
- Redesigned City Discovery, FitWhey, and HAP--all award-winning projects.
- Designed for clients such as City Discovery, Digicel, Entrepreneur.com, FitWhey, HAP, Juwelier Gabriel, Ritz-Carlton, and Totokaelo.
Technologies: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, Cinema 4D
Designer
2004 - 2005
Bang & Olufsen
- Worked at my first design gig at the age of 15. Here my love for minimal design was born.
Technologies: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Flash

Education

Completed undergraduate work in Economics
2004 - 2007
ProCivitas Private Gymnasium - Vaxjo, Sweden

Experience

Graphic Design15 years
Digital Design15 years
Adobe Photoshop13 years
Art Direction12 years
Adobe Illustrator11 years
Creative Direction10 years
Adobe InDesign10 years
Adobe After Effects6 years

Tools

Adobe InDesign
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe After Effects

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