WORKS

©2025, Alex Nielbo

Visual Identity, Brand Design Systems, Art Direction, Digital Design (UX/UI), Print Design

Currently freelance. Previously worked at Hamilton Watch Company | Swatch Group (CH), EY Doberman (SE), Bold Scandinavia (SE) and Fjord, Accenture (CH).

Projects
Category
Client
Date
Nº 10
Art Direction
Hamilton All-Year Around | Step Out Side
2023–2025
All-year Around
Hamilton Watches
–Step Outside
At Hamilton, I served as both an in-house Art Director and Visual Designer, helping bring vision clarity and refined brand identity, creating strong messaging and brand awareness through campaigns both paid and organic, fostering deeper emotional connections with key audiences – including movie enthusiasts, adventure and outdoor communities, and watch collectors.
Project
Year-round Hamilton campaigns
Contributions
Art Direction, Guidelines, Visual Design, Digital Design (Website Campaigns), Content Creation
Creative Team
Eric Åhnebrink, Alex Nielbo
Production Teams
Perry Gershkow, Zachary Piña, Studio Verso
Year
2023–2025
Nº 09
Art Direction
Hamilton × Engineered Garments
2024
Art Direction
Hamilton × Engineered Garments
Hamilton teams up with Engineered Garments to launch the Hamilton Khaki Field Titanium Limited Edition (Ø36mm).
 A combined set of product shots and contextual lifestyle scenes grounds the timepiece in a studio environment true to Engineered Garments and Hamilton Watches — where fashion meets precision. The campaign celebrates a collaboration built on shared philosophies — drawing parallels between rugged utility, timeless design, and military heritage.
Project
Khaki Field Titanium Limited Edition (Ø36mm)
Role
Art Direction
Team
Alex Nielbo, Eric Åhnebrink
Photographer
Stefan Zimmermann
Year
2024
This configuration epitomizes the ideal field watch, both contemporary and timeless, embodying the essence of Hamilton Khaki × Engineered Garments

Daiki Suzuki – Founder of Engineered Garments
Nº 08
Brand Identity
Zimpler Payments
2022
Zimpler Payments
Instant Response
Zimpler is a cutting-edge payment method for forward-thinking individuals who value instant and direct transactions without delay. It's a reflection of a fast-paced, on-demand lifestyle and a tool for living life to the fullest.
            We introduced a new brand identity for Zimpler with a digital-driven approach. The concept of "instant response" was translated into a visual language based on responsive behaviours and ToV, giving the brand a snappy and progressive energy, and expressions of unruly personalities. The identity includes a distinct typeface, a vibrant and unique colour palette, an energetic image style and a versatile but module-based layout system.
Client
Zimpler Payments
Role
Brand identity, website and type design
Team
Alex Nielbo, Petter Eklund, Torbjörn Kihlberg, Christina Damsgaard, Magnus Norlander, Yun Yu
Live
www.zimpler.com
Year
2022
Instantaneous Response
Scale, Position,
Personality
The design system is built around the core concept 'instant response,' making it scalable and adaptable across different applications.
Scale
Postion
Personality
Responsive on graphic
Responsive on type
Logo
Dynamic Symbol
Thinking mode,
Response: Seeking and adapting
Progress mode,
Response: Instant guiding
Thinking mode (multi-color),
Response: Seeking and adapting
Progress mode (multi-color),
Response: Instant guiding
Digital Design
Website
Website overview
Explorations
Microinteractions
Bespoke
Zimpler Grotesk
I contributed with the bespoke numbers based on the brand's typeface to create a more distinct expression for use in even the most limited applications, such as the payment flow.
Nº 07
Visual Identity
Fjord, part of Accenture
2021
Logotype
Fjord Switzerland
In my previous role at Fjord, a design and innovation consultancy under Accenture Interactive, I contributed a visual design concept to our team with a sub-identity for Fjord in Switzerland.
            The concept for this project was to reinterpret the official F logo into a dynamic form that was able to visually convey the themes of "shaping" and "building" together, including moving images. This approach allowed the sub-brand to be flexible and adapt while having room to grow into new forms from simple to expressive shapes, while still maintaining its recognisability.
            The resulting identity captured the spirit of Fjord and its focus on shaping the future and driving progress.
Client
Fjord, Part of Accenture Interactive
Direct Contribuitions
Concept visual identity, animation
Designer
Alexandre Nielbo
Special Thanks
Claudia Niemeyer, Thales Molina and Fjord Team
Year
2021
Form Variations
Animated Forms
Static Forms
Forms and Headlines
Applied Colorways
Basic Shape
Digital Application
Print Application
Nº 06
Research Project
Basel School of Design
2020
Master Thesis
Visual Form
of Emptiness

This thesis project investigates the interdependece in visual communication in a experimental, and oriented by a theorical-practical approach. The Research combines the theoretical framework, followed by a practical design experiments to develop visual languages with a goal of formulating a poster series, as the medium, that aims to create a visual experience based on the interdependence through the visual elements of typographic form and image.
             The methodology employed can best be described as empirical and causal, supported by other methods such as observation, analysis, comparison and analogy. The project is simultaneously research-based in its conceptual dimension permeated by a philosophical tone, and practice-based regarding its visual designing dimension.

INFO

Academic project
Basel School of Design | HGK
Delivery
Design research, digital publication
Designer
Alexandre Nielbo
Mentors
Jinsu Ahn, Susanne Käser, Arno Schubbach
Year
2020
Nº 05
Poster Design | Motion
Zeitraum
2020
Campaign Concept
Zeitraum Festival

This poster series was designed for a fictional event that focused on the use of moving graphics. To create these posters, I experimented with the interaction of time, rhythm, and contrast. Through this process, I developed several versions of the final product, each showcasing the power of the moving image in design.

INFO

Client
Zeitraum Festival
Areas
Digital poster design, 3D / 2D motion graphics
Designer
Alexandre Nielbo
Year
2020
Nº 04
Creative Coding
Basel School of Design
2019
Creative Coding
P5 Type Tool

Based on the function ’Text to Points’, We create a tool that can help you to create your version for different typefaces. These typefaces are composited by different shapes, including 2D and 3D shapes. You can easily type the word which you like and use the sliders on the right top to change the wave mode, wave speed and the size of the shapes.

INFO

Academic Project
Basel School of Design | HGK
Areas
P5 javascript library
Team colaboration
Alexandre Nielbo and Lu Zian
Year
2019
Nº 03
Design Exhibition
PosterSlam IVK Exhibition
2019
Exhibition
State of Being

For the Posterslam exhibition at the Basel School of Design, I created a typographic poster that was printed in silkscreen. The theme of the exhibition was "State of Being," and my poster conveyed this message through designed letterforms.
                  I conducted a visual study to investigate the different levels of interpretation and dimensions that legibility and form can reach in order to capture the viewer's attention. By printing the poster in silkscreen, it allows the viewer to experience the message on both a visual and physical level, from reading it from a distance to coming closer and feeling the haptic structure of the letterforms, which adds a sense of presence to the piece.

Client
Posterslam IVK
Areas
Type Design, typography, print
Designer
Alexandre Nielbo
Year
2019
Nº 02
Editorial
Basel School of Design
2019
Editorial
Archive

Growing up in a multicultural and diverse family, I have always been fascinated by the different journeys I took to visit my family roots in Switzerland, Denmark, and Brazil.
             This project is a personal exploration of those journeys and the memories that still linger from my childhood. Each journey (chapter) is introduced with a continuous landscape that sets the stage for the story that follows. The typographic setting is composed within this frame, giving shape to the narratives and stories.
             The chosen fonts were carefully selected to create contrast between the old memories and the new times in which the images were archived, allowing me to reconnect with those memories and the emotions they evoke.

Academic project
Basel School of Design | HGK
Areas
Editorial, print, typesetting
Designer
Alexandre Nielbo
Year
2019
Nº 01
Design Exhibition
Basel School of Design
2018
Exhibition
No Money. No Clown.

In the Authorship course, students were asked to create a series of visuals designs through four techniques. These images were supported by in-depth visual explorations with the purpose of describing the designer themselves as content within four chapters (techniques): typographic form, graphic shapes, photography, and slogan.
             The approach for this project was to incorporate humor and irony into the message, as well as connecting the different elements from graphic shapes into typographic form with the contrast of organic and static shapes. At the end, it was developed a catalogue with these designs that later was composed into a final poster design that showcases one element from each technique.

Academic Project
Basel School of Design | HGK
Areas
Poster, typography, graphic
Designer
Alexandre Nielbo
Mentor
Jiri Oplatek
Year
2018
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