Alex Haigh

Current

• Founder at HypeForType
• Founder at Thinkdust™ (Self-employed)

Past

• Senior Freelancer at AKQA
• Senior Freelancer at Dare Digital
• Freelance Designer at Tribal DDB

• Designer at Mook

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Education

• Sheffield Hallam University

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Connections

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Industry

Design

Alex Haigh’s Summary

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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

  (Design industry)

  June 2009 — Present (6 months)

  Brand new online font foundry - http://www.hypefortype.com

• Founder

  Thinkdust™ (Self-employed)

  (Self-Employed; Myself Only; Design industry)

  June 2005 — Present (4 years 6 months)

• Senior Freelancer

  AKQA

  (Design industry)

  July 2009 — November 2009 (5 months)

• Senior Freelancer

  Dare Digital

  (Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  February 2009 — May 2009 (4 months)

  Design & Art Direction for two Sony projects. One, which I can't mention for legal reasons, a pitch win for a massive contract for Dare. The other full design and art direction on a global online Sony site. More details to follow when they go live...

• Freelance Designer

  Tribal DDB

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; OMC; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  August 2007 — December 2008 (1 year 5 months)

  Working as a freelance design 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.

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