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Alex Rivera

Independent designer — available spring 2026

Alex Rivera. Brand, interface and print design, reduced to what matters.

Twelve years of practice in one habit: fewer, better decisions. I work with founders, studios and in-house teams on identity, product interfaces and printed matter.

Selected work [email protected]
Studio portrait of Alex Rivera in high-contrast black and white
Based
Lisbon, GMT+1
Focus
Identity, UI, systems
Working with
Small teams
Reply time
Within two days

01 — Selected work

Six projects

A short index of recent work, from first conversation to final handoff.

No case-study theatre. Each entry lists the discipline, the year and the one decision that shaped it.

Showing all six projects.

Black and white curve study used in the Nordvik identity system

01 · Branding · 2025

Nordvik

Furniture studio identity built on a single ratio.

Monochrome studio still life from the Lumen product photography direction

02 · Digital · 2025

Lumen

A finance app that hides its complexity behind one screen.

Printed editorial spreads from the Field Notes journal

03 · Print · 2024

Field Notes

Journal grid, set once and reused across six issues.

Black and white art direction frame for the Atelier Salt storefront

04 · Digital · 2025

Atelier Salt

Storefront for a ceramics studio, shaped like a shelf.

Posters from the Type Riot series printed on a wall

05 · Print · 2024

Type Riot

Twenty-four posters, one grid, four weights.

Sketches and printed pieces from the Kettle and Co identity work

06 · Branding · 2024

Kettle & Co

Roastery identity where the label carries the story.

02 — About

Restraint, applied consistently.

I am Alex, an independent designer. I take on a handful of projects a year and give each one the attention a large studio cannot.

The work tends to be quiet: typography doing the heavy lifting, grids you can feel, no decoration that has to be explained. I have designed for furniture makers, fintech startups, cultural programmes and coffee roasters — sometimes all in the same year.

Projects start with a conversation and a one-page brief, then move in short cycles with work shared early. You get files your team can maintain, not a museum piece.

Method
Short cycles, one decision-maker, fixed scope.
Clients
Founders, studios needing extra hands, in-house teams mid-rebrand.
Deliverables
Guidelines, component libraries, print-ready artwork, handoff sessions.

03 — Services & skills

Four engagements

Four ways to work together, priced by scope rather than by hour.

  1. 01

    Brand identity

    Positioning, wordmark, colour and type systems, plus the guidelines that keep it consistent after I leave.

    From 3 weeks

  2. 02

    Digital product design

    Flows, wireframes, high-fidelity interfaces and prototypes for web apps, marketing sites and mobile products.

    From 4 weeks

  3. 03

    Design systems

    Tokens, components and documentation built to be extended by engineers instead of archived after launch.

    From 3 weeks

  4. 04

    Art direction & print

    Campaign concepts, packaging, editorial layout and print production with suppliers I have used for years.

    Project based

Tools

  • Figma
  • Framer
  • Webflow
  • Blender
  • Notion

Skills

  • Typography
  • Grid systems
  • Design tokens
  • Prototyping
  • Print production
  • Art direction
  • Accessibility basics
  • Workshops

04 — Contact

Open for spring 2026

Start with an email. A few lines about the project is enough.

Tell me what you are building, when it needs to ship and the budget range you have in mind. I answer every serious enquiry within two working days.

[email protected]

No form on purpose — a direct email reaches me fastest

Availability
Two project slots, spring 2026
Time zone
GMT+1, calls until 18:00 CET
Next step
A 30-minute intro call, then a one-page brief