Alex Donahue
Graphic designer creating clear, purposeful brand identities
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Neotype is a type specimen book pairing Orbitron and Roboto, two faces that read as opposites. Orbitron is rigid and geometric, built for headlines and branding. Roboto is humanist and meant to disappear into body copy. Rather than using the usual display-plus-safe-body pairing,...
No Limits is a 12-page brochure tracing PlayStation's console history. The brief called for tying typography, image, structure, and pacing around one theme. The five console generations give the book a built-in pacing structure, and each one has its own visual identity to work...
Sleeve Stories is an identity system for a conceptual museum exhibit on the evolution of album cover art. The brief was to appeal to longtime vinyl collectors and streaming-native audiences at the same time, bridging the vinyl, CD, and streaming eras under one visual voice.
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MuralWalk is a self-directed mobile app concept. Public art is usually stumbled upon, if it's noticed at all, and people walking a neighborhood have no easy way to find nearby pieces or learn who made them and what they mean. MuralWalk makes that discovery deliberate, much like...
