Education, experience, and skills. Creative Design Engineer building brands and interfaces.
Alex Wilczewski
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Creative Design Engineer
I design brands and interfaces, then ship them in production code. Creator of PickHue. Creative Director for Collectors Corner NY, where most days I’m also shooting or editing vintage watches.
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01 Selected work
PickHue 2026
Creator & maintainer · Open-source Chrome extension
Built a free in-page color picker for Chrome end to end: brand, product UI, TypeScript codebase, and landing page. Pixel-precise loupe, HEX / RGB / HSL / OKLCH copy, named palettes with ASE / CSS / JSON export, and a Shadow DOM panel that sits on the page without fighting site styles. First public release to the 2.0 Palettes update in about five weeks; still shipping polish releases. MIT-licensed, no user data collected, live on the Chrome Web Store.
TypeScript · Vite · Manifest V3 · Shadow DOM · Case study · pickhue.site
BrightBook 2023 – 2024
Founder & designer · AI lesson planner for educators
Founded it and owned the product experience, brand system, partner materials, and a chunk of the day-to-day ops needed to get a V1 out. Designed the lesson-planning interface and the public identity so the product and the company read as the same thing. Shipped to early users and testers; earned a $10k award through Boston University’s innovation pathway accelerator. Spoke on a panel at the 2024 WLSA Global Educators Conference at NYU Shanghai about AI and the future of education.
Product design · Brand · Operations · Case study
SpiritBrush 2026
Brand identity · Client: illustrator Anita Karas
Took Anita’s illustration character and turned it into a system that holds up on a crowded convention floor: custom spirit mark, logotype, Instrument Sans type, palette, and applications for banners, labels, and merch. The new logo is printed on her convention banner and in active use at popup tables.
Logo · Art direction · Applications · Case study
Collectors Corner NY Ongoing
Creative Director · Editorial product photography
Ongoing shoot and edit work for a premier vintage watch dealer in the NY / CT area: listing imagery, macro detail shots, and social assets. Day-to-day creative direction alongside the photography.
Photography · Retouching · Client work
02 Experience
Empowered Technology Aug 2023 – Aug 2025
Chief Creative Officer · New York, NY · Hybrid
- Delivered digital and physical branding across the company’s output: identity work, stationery, and marketing materials.
- Held design quality from first concept through production, in both print and screen formats.
BrightBook Mar 2023 – Aug 2024
Chief Product Officer · Hybrid
- Creative lead on an AI lesson planner for educators. Owned the product experience and the brand system that carried it.
- Designed the web-app UI/UX and the public identity so the product and the company read as one thing.
- Took it from early idea through a shipped V1, early users, and conference-facing storytelling.
One World Future Ready Jan 2023 – Jul 2023
Creative Team Lead · Contract · Rye, NY · On-site
- Led creative direction for One World United & Virtuous, a global education nonprofit, overhauling internal communications and course design into one coherent visual identity.
- Modernized outdated brand systems and design workflows while helping deliver educational programs to students across several countries.
Apple May 2022 – Jan 2023
Sales Specialist · Connecticut · On-site
- Sold and supported the full product line on a high-volume floor, hitting performance targets in a fast-moving environment.
- Helped customers choose and set up their devices through clear demos and patient troubleshooting.
03 Education
SUNY Purchase College Sep 2025 – Sep 2029
B.A. in progress
Digital design, media studies, and art history.
Port Chester High School 2016 – 2020
Regents Diploma with Seal of Biliteracy.
04 Skills
Design Brand identity, UI/UX, type, color systems, art direction, print
Code TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, Vite, Manifest V3 extensions, Next.js on Vercel
Craft Product photography, retouching, digital art
Tools Adobe Creative Cloud, WordPress, Google Suite, Microsoft Office, Slack, Zoom · macOS & Windows
05 Languages
English (native) · Polish (native) · Portuguese (native)
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