Based out of Seattle, WA, Alex is the founder and lead designer at her design firm, Alex Delano Design. She is also the Creative Director and a Partner at oakpool, working with brands such as GORE-TEX, Goslings Rum, Asics, Project Social T, UpWorthy, CBS, and more. She also produces award-winning documentaries for Pandion Creative.
Read Alex's letter below for more details!
A NOTE FROM ALEX:
Welcome to my page, I'm so glad you found me!
I was raised in the Berkshires of Massachusetts, home to the Clark Art Museum, the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), and the Norman Rockwell Museum, where I spent most of my youth exploring the arts. I was always starting little creative businesses, and skipping gym class to paint. These interests translated into my current work, which consists primarily of graphic design, creative direction, illustration, marketing, and film production.
In early 2023, I made a calculated decision to leave full-time work and pursue a freelance design career. I launched Alex Delano Design out my one-bedroom apartment in Los Angeles, and have since been working with incredible clients worldwide. I then became the Creative Director and Partner of a successful and innovative digital marketing agency, oakpool. I have also had the pleasure of producing an award-winning documentary, MEKO, for Pandion Creative in association with oakpool.
Previously, I worked as a Graphic Designer for the industry's top digitally printed specialty wallcoverings, Astek. I created everything from backgrounds and set props for HBO, Netflix, and HGTV, to hand-illustrated patterns and custom murals for commercial spaces. I was even featured on an episode of HGTV's "The Renovator"! I was also previously the Marketing Graphic Designer/Marketing Coordinator at publicly-traded company, Greenlane Holdings, Inc.. Before that, I was the Product Development Graphic Designer at The Annie Selke Companies, a luxury home furnishings company located in Pittsfield, MA.
I am also a proud graduate of Boston University's College of Fine Arts where I earned a BFA in Graphic Design and a minor in Advertising from the College of Communications.
I currently live in Seattle, WA with my two cats, Nala and Binx (any Hocus Pocus lovers out there?)! I currently plan to continue building our ever-growing marketing agency, oakpool, by producing exceptional deliverables. Long-term, I hope to find myself settled as a Creative Director at a company who's values and interests align with my own, whether that be oakpool, a future company, or an existing brand.
All photos courtesy of ©Laura Burvill Photography
