Alex Young

Associate Design Director at OPEN Health, Patient and Brand Communications

Addlestone, England, United Kingdom

About

Senior Designer in the advertising arm of OPEN Health Communications. Currently responsible for a wide range of design for digital and print advertising, sales and marketing materials. Including brochures, brand books, websites, apps, digital sales aids, emails, online meeting materials, conference stands and everything in between. Partly responsible for managing freelance designers and artworkers including quality control. Central to designing the set up and UX of our internal workflow management system. I've been in this design, artwork and retouching game for as long as I can remember now. With a wealth of experience in print I've worked on pretty much every type of marketing and advertising going for a large variety of clients. I have also built up a great deal of digital work designing websites, intranet sites, emails and phone apps. And that's what keeps it interesting - that and the coffee. Some previous clients: Addiction Worldwide, Brand Advocate, BURN Marketing, CDM, Cheil Worldwide, CHI & Partners, DLKW, Hive, Joshua G2, JWT, RAPP, Sky, Steam, TK Maxx, VCCP, venturethree, WDMP Specialities: Digital Design, UX, Print Design, Retouching Expert in InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Mail Chimp, Stripo Skilled in Sketch, Adobe Animate Good working knowledge of Premiere, html, css Advertising and marketing. Print and digital

Experience

  • Associate Design Director at OPEN X Health
    Nov 2024 - Present · 1 yr 8 mos

  • Senior Designer at OPEN Health Communications
    Sep 2017 - Nov 2024 · 7 yrs 3 mos

    OPEN Health is a family of expert practices working in partnership to drive positive change in healthcare communications and market access, globally. Our journey began with a vision to improve the lives of patients worldwide. This vision has become a reality with the integration of experts from Peloton Advantage and Pharmerit to create a new unique entity equipped to be a global leader in advertising, HEOR, learning & development, market access, medical communications, patient engagement, public relations, publications and digital services. Together, we have grown to over 700 people in 15 locations across 6 countries including the United States, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Germany, India and China. What makes us unique is our deeply integrated practices that work collaboratively to bring the strategic and technical expertise needed to be a solid partner to our clients. Combined with our broad scope of therapeutic expertise, we produce results and solutions that are of the highest quality. OPEN Health prides itself on having a highly skilled, diverse and connected team working across the globe to deliver truly innovative and best-in-class solutions. This has resulted in long-term, flexible partnerships that span across multiple brands and therapy areas.

  • Lead Multimedia Designer at OPEN Health
    Jan 2023 - Jan 2023 · 1 mo

  • LEC London (an Open Health Company) (3 yrs 5 mos)
    • Senior Digital Designer
      Sep 2017 - Jan 2019 · 1 yr 5 mos

    • Designer
      Sep 2015 - Sep 2017 · 2 yrs 1 mo

      LEC is a full service healthcare creative agency specialising in creating, launching and revitalising global, European, and domestic UK brands. Responsible for branding, layout design, user experience and user interface design across all of our brand materials.

  • Freelance Designer/Retoucher/Artworker at Alex Young Design Ltd
    Feb 2007 - Sep 2015 · 8 yrs 8 mos

    • Freelance Graphic Designer able to work on site within Marketing, Advertising and Design Studios • Digital design - email design, html build and broadcast, web design • App UX and UI design and project management • High resolution Photoshop retouching - creative image construction, comps and detailed image correction • Visualising - highly polished Mac visuals for pitches and presentations • Graphic Design - logo concepts, corporate identity, literature layout design • Artworking - following creative concepts, accurate and consistant artwork, high level of reprographic knowledge