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Alex Russell Creative Services is a freelance design studio, based in the UK, with clients from all over the world. Hello there!

The studio offers a wide range of printed textile design, surface pattern, graphics, illustration and other creative services for fashion / apparel, interiors / home furnishing / lifestyle and editorial / publishing.

Alex Russell Creative Services has achieved an international client list with enthusiasm, professionalism and a unique blend of technical skill and creativity.

Alex is also a lecturer at Manchester School of Art. His research includes the Repeatless project, which explores generative design and digital fabric printing.

What makes Alex Russell Creative Services different:

• creative, intelligent, professional approach.

• experienced in broad range of markets; excellent external trend awareness.

• highly skilled in both traditional and digital media, with deep understanding of textile print process.

• capable of producing work in any number of styles and generating / working with a wealth of ideas.

• flexible, extensive collection of services from initial inspiration to final presentation.

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News (Last update 18 December 2009)

New designs:
I've been working on a new range of print and pattern that will be aired on the Amsterstampa stand at Premiere Vision from 9-12 Feb. For the first time, these feature some elements from the generative design research (see next item).

Research:
For a while, I've been doing bits and bobs on a new project using coding (Javascript and Processing) and it's finally edging off my hard drive and into the outside world. Based around some generative design ideas I've been toying with for years, it's going to look at ways of fully exploiting digital fabric printing (among other things). The project is called Repeatless; this means blogging. Oh, and YouTube.

Books that feature my work:
"Seamless: Textile Designer at the Cutting Edge" by Bradley Quinn - the publisher's site is here or buy at Amazon.
"New Fashion Prints" by Martin Dawber, at Amazon and bookshops).
“Pattern”, by Drusilla Cole, at Amazon and places where you walk in with money and out with books.

Somewhere out there:
A book chapter (text not pictures this time), some kind of other book thing I can't talk about yet and the return of analogue rock. Ooo, and welcome in world, Joe Garvey.