Alex Maclean
Creative Director / Founder

After studying MA Architecture and Interior Design, Alex became a research fellow at the Royal College of Art. During the next few years he co-founded an online charity whilst creating websites for feature films. Alex started Airside with Nat and Fred in 1998.

Alex is creative director at Airside, with principal responsibility for moving image projects. He will follow a project from the initial creative meeting to final delivery, coordinating the design team and liaising with Airside’s project managers, keeping creative control of the project.

Alex has been on the judging panels at several awards including Design Week and D&AD, as well as speaking at conferences, most recently Design Indaba in South Africa.

Anne Brassier
PR & New Business

Anne has been at Airside since 2001 and handles all press and new business matters. From meeting clients to receive the brief and talk about projects, through to handling press and marketing once a project is completed, she will be your point of contact before and after a project is undertaken by Airside.

Anne is mother to the Stitches – woolly creatures adopted to new homes via Airside’s online shop www.airsideshop.com

Anne originally studied Computer Programming, particularly enjoying machine code! And she’s also a semi-professional photographer specialising in weddings and film stills.

Catherine Hall
New Business

Catherine is the door opener of Airside, she enjoys the thrill of the chase and is always looking for new ways in which Airside can market itself and become indispensable to potential clients. She is tenacious and a risk taker, and knows that business relationships will survive if the chemistry is right and there is an equal share of risk and mutual admiration between clients and the Airside team.

When Catherine is not head-down winning new projects, she is a part time zoo keeper with her ever growing menagerie of animals at home.

Chris Rain
Designer

Chris Rain is a typo/graphic designer at Airside. He is obsessed with presenting information using clear yet innovative typography and graphic design. He has a rigorous, consistent and passionate approach to all projects.

Chris studied at the London College of Printing, an institution renowned for high quality typography. While studying there he won a competition to design a magazine and all supporting graphic material for the Philip Lawrence Awards. Chris is a member of the International Society of Typographic Designers. He often talks at colleges about design and is currently mentoring a selection of students in their final year. Whilst at Airside he has worked on many award-winning projects.

Colm Larkin
Accounts

Colm is the star of Airside's accounts department, though to be fair, he is the only member of said department. When it comes to issuing invoices, paying bills and reconciling bank accounts and warring states, Colm is all over it like a real-life Herbert Kornfeld. In his spare time Colm runs the ace t-shirt and print emporium that is Airside Shop.

Make him happy, visit www.airsideshop.com.

Fred Deakin
Creative Director / Founder

While studying English Literature at Edinburgh University, Fred also organised clubs. He found his way into graphic design by producing the flyers and other visuals required for the clubs.

In the late 80s he set up his own design company before undertaking the Communication Design MA at St Martins School of Art (where he subsequently became a tutor). On graduating he worked with Ian Swift and began making music with Nick Franglen as Lemon Jelly, before starting Airside with Alex and Nat.

Fred is a creative director at Airside, running both illustration and moving image projects. He is involved from the first meeting through to final delivery.

Guy Moorhouse
Interaction Designer

Guy studied English Language/Literature in Manchester, but after spending two years travelling and working abroad, he changed career focus and now specialises in interaction design at Airside.

A self taught designer and developer, Guy has designed and built for diverse clients including Sony, 3 Mobile and the V&A.

Since starting at Airside in 2006, he has judged the D&AD (Digital) Student Awards and occasionally enjoys trying his hand at offline design.

Guy is a keen photographer and loves shooting film and digital.

Henki Leung
Designer

Henki came to Airside in September 2000 from the University of Plymouth where he studied Design: Typography.

He was featured in Creative Review’s Creative Futures in 2005, for which he spent a week in the window of Selfridges on Oxford Street, creating an on-going piece of design work along with the other selected designers.

Recent talks include the Young Creatives Network at the ICA, London, and a presentation and workshop at the Apple Store in Tokyo. Henki has also judged the Student D&AD Awards and taken part in their New Blood Portfolio Surgeries.

Henki is a senior designer at Airside.

Jamie Wieck
Designer & Illustrator

Jamie studied at the internationally renowned Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design and joined Airside following his graduation in 2006. He is an award winning Graphic Designer and Illustrator who specialises in problem solving and works in a range of disciplines to approach every brief with strong lateral thinking.

Prior to joining Airside Jamie won the opportunity to re-brand both Covent Garden Piazza and the University of the Arts Students' Union, as well as working with Nike and Howies to earn his beer money.

Jamie's work has garnered much media attention and oddly for a pasty-faced Graphic Designer he's managed to appear in Glamour magazine, alongside several Japanese magazines he can't pronounce.

Apparently he is big in Turkey.

Malika Favre
Designer & Illustrator

She has a Graphic Design degree from Olivier de Serres in Paris and a BA in Digital Media from the Surrey Institute (but everybody knows she did illustration and not digital there).

Malika likes drawing and draws a lot – ever since her mum gave her a blue pen when she was four. Malika is French and loves nothing more than coffee, croissants and a cigarette for breakfast, and cheese for dinner.

Nat Hunter
Managing Director / Founder

Nat studied Psychology (inc Human Computer Interface) at Edinburgh University, followed by an MA in Interactive Multimedia at the Royal College of Art. She then freelanced on various projects including interface design on ‘Lost in Space’ and performance installation work for interactive artists, Blast Theory.

In 2007 Nat co-founded the not-for-profit social enterprise Three Trees Don’t Make A Forest – which aims to help the design industry produce sustainable creative work. She has also judged the D&AD and Design Week awards, and has served on NESTA’s fellowship panel.

Nat directs the digital projects at Airside and works closely with everyone generally, in order to have an overall view of all active projects.

Sibylle Preuss
Project Manager

Sibylle has been at Airside since 2005. She is responsible for account handling and project management, ensuring work is delivered on time and on budget, and she is the client’s day-to-day contact during the project period.

Sibylle has many years of experience within the creative industry ranging from marketing management and business development to project and production management. She has managed a large variety of work at Airside including animation, print, illustration and digital projects for clients such as MasterCard, the Pet Shop Boys, Sagawa (Japan), Virgin Trains and Wolverhampton Art Gallery to name but a few.

Sibylle is German, and loves Nick Cave and Bikram Yoga.