I’m Alex Melville, an independent

What I've done

Well, since you've come this far...

why not take a journey with me?

My story began in the winter of 1987...

Born and raised in a quiet corner of London. Forests to one side, and the busyness of London on the other. Walthamstow always 

Digital technology surrounded me throughout my childhood. I grew up in the '90s, playing awesome 16-bit cartridge-based computer games. I was fortunate enough to be allowed my own pets–Tamogochi’s of course! I went from floppy disks to CDs

During my time at school, I found myself moving further from the computing courses that I found too repetitive, to the arts which I found to be more expressive.

With a degree in Graphic Design fresh in my hands, I felt I was finally ready to ditch education and take on the world of employment. How exactly did I embark on the mission of landing myself a dream job? I sat down at my computer of course, and sent emails, a lot of emails!

Still working at this time for a  retailer that I joined in my first year of university, I was needlessly to say excited when I received a reply to one of my emails, with an invitation to attend an interview. 

Boom, I landed my first-ever design job at a startup in central London called NKD. Filled with both anxiety and excitement, I journeyed into their offices which were just off Oxford Street. Once there I met the friendliest team I've worked with to this day. Their office was modern, spacious, and clean, despite the dogs.

They had a relatively small office space in the heart of London, and with an inspiring team I was creating animated presentations in Flash, and whole suites of printed communications to go with it.

Something big happened in 2015—a child came into my life. That was no surprise of course but her arrival did make me start thinking about my life seriously—possibly for the first time.

A chance encounter brought me together with a friend from university who I hadn't seen in about five years, 

and I set up a solo studio—Design Planet.