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 panel for several awards including Design Week and D&AD's annual distinctions, as well as speaking at conferences around the world, most recently Design Indaba in South Africa.
Anne Brassier
New Business
At Airside since 2001, at around 10am, Anne is all things new business – from receiving the brief to co-ordinating press & marketing once a project is completed, working closely with Airside's directors, producers and creative team.
Anne studied Computer Programming when computer screens were amber and green, and memory capacity was in bits & bytes; she particularly enjoyed machine code.
She’s also a photographer specialising in weddings and film stills, as well as being mother to the Stitches – woolly creatures in need of love and adopted to new homes though Airside’s online shop www.airsideshop.com.
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
Senior Designer
Chris joined Airside in 2005 and has a passion for presenting information using clear yet innovative typography and graphic design.
Chris studied at the London College of Printing, an institution renowned for it’s high quality typography and whilst there successfully beat stiff competition to design the magazine and supporting graphic material for the Philip Lawrence Awards.
Chris is a member of the International Society of Typographic Designers, and often talks at colleges about design. In the last year Chris’s passion for education has taken him out the studio to mentor a selection of students in their final year. Whilst at Airside he has worked on many award-winning projects demonstrating a rigorous, consistent and passionate approach to all 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, and buy something!
Fred Deakin
Creative Director / Founder
Fred Deakin began his music and design career by organizing and DJing at a variety of bizarre club nights in Edinburgh, while completing an MA in English Literature. He found his way into design by producing the flyers and visuals for these nights, and then moved to London to study Communication Design at Central Saint Martins where he subsequently became a tutor. In 1998 he launched Airside with Alex and Nat where he is currently executive creative director.
As half of Mercury and Brit nominated dance act Lemon Jelly with Nick Franglen, he has sold over half a million records worldwide, released three albums on XL Recordings, two of which have gone gold and one silver, and has toured the UK and Europe, headlined the Reading and Leeds dance tent and The Big Chill among many other festival dates. In 2007 he released the triple CD box set The Triptych, "the best mix album ever" according to The Guardian's front page, which also won best CD packaging at the European Design Awards. In 2008 he followed it up with the post-disco compilation Nu Balearica which was Mixmag's album of the month.
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 solutions for diverse clients including Sony, 3 Mobile and the V&A.
Since starting at Airside in 2006, he has judged the digital category for the D&AD Student Awards and occasionally enjoys trying his hand at offline design.
Guy is a keen photographer and loves shooting film and digital.
Henki Leung
Senior Designer
Henki joined Airside in 2000 following his studies in design and typography at the University of Plymouth.
In 2005 he was featured in Creative Review’s Creative Futures, 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.
Henki's most recent talks include the Young Creatives Network at the ICA, London, and a presentation and workshop at the Apple Store in Tokyo. He has also judged the Student D&AD Awards and taken part in their New Blood portfolio surgeries.
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 enjoys problem solving and works in a broad range of disciplines to tackle 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 bizarrely he's managed to appear in Glamour magazine.
Malika Favre
Designer & Illustrator
Malika has a Graphic Design degree from Olivier de Serres in Paris and a BA in Digital Media from the Surrey Institute, but everybody knows her burning passion is for illustration. 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 (not forgetting 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
Senior Producer
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.
