Alex Engzell

Designer in Tallinn, Estonia

Member since March 2, 2017

Alex 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

Digital Design

Vogue
- Website Redesigns
- Beauty Products
- Responsive UI
- Photoshop 2017
- Illustrator 2017
- After Effects CC
- Wireframing
- Web UX
- Sketching
- Blog Design
- Digital Publishing
- Project Management
- Team Management
- Fashion
Pendry Cannon
- Web Design
- Branding
- Responsive Design
Realventure
- Responsive Design
- Illustration
- Web Design
- Branding
Urbanite
- Branding
- Web Design
- Dashboards
- Logo Design
- Responsive Design
- UI Design
- UX Design
- Wireframing
- Brand Guidelines
- Creative Direction
- Digital Creative Direction
- Art Direction
CheckIn.No
- Web Design
- Responsive Design
- WordPress
- User Interface (UI)
- Web UX
- Wireframing
- Photoshop Design
Adrian Gee
- Web Design
- Branding
- Responsive
- Responsive Web Design (RWD)
- Blog Design
Hunter Farmer
- Illustration
- Branding
- Design
- Graphic Design
- Writing & Editing
- Responsive
Bonne Marque
- Graphic Design
- Branding
- Writing & Editing
- Award-winning
- Logotype
- Responsive UI
- Responsive
Involve Digital
- Graphic Design
- Responsive
- Digital Design
- Image Manipulation
- Writing & Editing

Employment

Creative Director
2017 - 2018
Rosie Lee
- Led the creative team.
- Grew the Amsterdam office.
- Managed and was in charge of the Nike account.
- Managed and was in charge of Infinite Objects—our online retail shop with curated products from our favorite creators.
- Worked with the following clients: Converse, Danish Athletic Federation, Heineken, Nike, Pepsi, and VICE.
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 three 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 photo shoots 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 the 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