Alex Kirsch

Killed Nike work from the archive 🔪 🩸

Frame-by-frame illustrated animation of one of my favorite Messi moments - putting James Milner to sleep in the champions league at the Camp Nou 🫣 🛌 ⚽️ 🥜 #messi #championsleague #footballanimation #Barca #illustration

Some of my favorite designs from last year’s Google I/O event. I worked with the Google Events & Experiences team to design the visual identity system and guidelines for Google I/O24. This identity extended across various elements, including spatial design, signage and wayfinding, broadcast materials, digital experiences, experiential design, and the keynote presentation. We aimed to create branding that felt innovative, approachable, and optimistic. We blended Google’s four core colors into dynamic gradients, generating new brand colors that felt both fresh and familiar. We created a simple black-and-white grid system, which was filled with our gradient colors to represent generative AI. Huge thanks to the amazing team for the opportunity and collaboration. Team: Creative Direction: Dan Chandler Design Director: Natalia Grosner Designers: Alex Kirsch, Alli Berk, Anmol Govinda, Caroline Hunter, Crystal Zapata, Jeremiah Chiu, Mathilde Vallée, Ramzy Masri Spatial Design: Adi Goodrich Animators: Chris Anderson, Gung Kai Koo, Mathijs Luijten, Mike Russo and Nicolo Bianchino Producers: Chris Hsu, Salam Darwaza and countless other partners Event Photography: Erik Benjamins #branding #graphicdesign #illustration #designfeed #eyeondesign #illustrator #visualfodder #fvckingdesign #brandidentity #designsystem

Vinyl illustrations are up at the London office! Each room is dedicated to a city where Swap has an office.

I picked up woodworking a few months ago and decided to make @naomiharika this cutting board for her birthday. If you don’t know her, she can be pretty particular about aesthetics and no cutting boards we could find online were up to par. She wanted something large, organic shaped, and made of darker wood. I found a slab of black walnut that seemed perfect. Getting into woodworking wasn’t a very thought out decision - I just had an itch to try it. But I think unconsciously it was about working with my hands, being closer with nature, and being further from technology. Although this is a super quick video, this process took me months. During the process I cut my hands 5+ times, I started over twice, I messed up so many saw cuts, I sanded in the wrong grit order… not to mention after recording this video I dropped the board down a full set up stairs and had to start the refinishing process all over again. BUT my favorite part of woodworking is easily the fact that you can’t go back or hit edit undo, you can only adapt and move forward.

I was asked to illustrate and design a jacquard throw blanket for Swap recently. It was refreshing to make something tangible with so much of our lives being bombarded with AI and screens. Swipe for the process 🐦 🐦

Sneak peak of an upcoming brand identity for Brezza. An automated protein shake maker.

Snow days in the South hit different. Maybe it’s the rarity of those beautiful little flurries…or maybe it’s the way a few inches of white seem to turn every stranger into a neighbor. Suddenly we’re pushing cars, sharing food, swapping stories in grocery store lines...it's Southern community at its best! In every issue of Good Grit, we’re honored to share a story from beloved Southern voice @seanofthesouth , and in our Winter issue, he reminds us how snow has a way of softening everything, bringing strangers together, and sparking the type of kindness we wish we saw more often. What snow story lives rent-free in your memory? The Blizzard of ’93? Birmingham’s 2014 Snowmageddon? Or something even better? Tell us your favorite "snow in the south" memory. 👇🏼

Sketch for an upcoming mural project in Brooklyn ⏳

Recent brand illustrations for a fence inspection company thanks to @patcycles

Little stop motion illustration for @bryancollins on helping creatives get unstuck

I have a few more risograph prints of these cherries. Message me if you’d like one 🍒