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DESIGN AND ART DIRECTION SINCE 2008, BY ALEXANDER SHOUKAS. CURRENTLY DESIGN DIRECTOR AT BLOOMBERG BUSINESSWEEK MAGAZINE. VIEW AND PURCHASE VOLUME PAPER HERE. CONTACT: +1 (862) 213-2191, A@AES.INFO

IMAGES, FROM TOP: UNTITLED PHOTOGRAPH, 2021; FROM BUSINESSWEEK (With Chris Nosenzo, Aeriel Brown, Diana SuryaKusuma, Clinton Cargill, Robert Vargas, Tracy Ma, In collaboration with Art/photo/Editorial Depts.) – Detail, ‘How to Land on mars’ Video Explainer, May 2021; Detail, ‘Loopholes? Come on, man’, May 2021; Photo illustration, ‘Anti-Asian Atmosphere Chills Chinese Scientists Working in the U.S.’ Photo: Getty Images, April 2021. Untitled video, 2021; BUSINESSWEEK CONT’D — Photo illustration, ‘It’s Not Nice to Vote Twice’. Photo: Elijah Nouvelage / Bloomberg, SEPTEMBER 2020; Animation, ‘The Long, Perilous Road Ahead’, April 2021; Animation, ‘BREAKING: Amazon agrees to buy film studio MGM for $8.45 billion.’, May 2021; Page details, ‘Places’, 2020 Election issue. Photographs by Dane Rhys (Ambridge) and Cassidy Araiza (Maricopa) October 2020 (5); Detail, ‘In Zelle We Trust’. Photographs by Bryan Cereijo (Above, Miami) and Andrea Hernandez Briceño (Below, Caracas). UNTITLED PHOTOGRAPH, 2019; TRailer for short film From Home. Music by James Pants, 2020; BUSINESSWEEK CONT’D — Detail, ‘The Vaccine Issue’, with Steph Davidson, August 2020; Cover, ‘Exxon’s Reckoning’. Modeling and animation by Scott Gelber, May 2020; Illustration, ‘The Bubble That Never Pops’, June 2020; detail, ‘Is it time for Quotas?’ (2020 Fortune 500 CEOs), June 2020; Cover, ‘How 3m Doubled N95 Mask Production’. Photographs by Jamie Chung, March 2020; Opening Spread, ‘PROBLEMS PROBLEMS PROBLEMS’. Photographs by William Mebane, May 2020 (2); Photo Illustration ‘How China Lost Biden–And America’. Photo: Getty Images, April 2020; Photo Illustration, ‘AFTER Four Antibody Tests, I’M Still Not Sure I've Had Covid-19’. Photographs by Stephanie Baker, May 2020; Details, ‘The Lost Year’ Coronavirus Special Report, with photographs by Daniel Xie, Gus Powell, March 2020 (6); Details, ‘In Brief’. Photos: Getty, Spring 2020 (2); Animation Detail, ‘Google Wants to Do Business With the Military—Many of Its Employees Don’t’. Footage: Getty, November 2019; Opening spread, ‘A Dead Doctor, the Trauma of Sexual Abuse, and a Bank in Denial’, photographs by Sophie Gerrard, November 2019 (2); Photo illustration, ‘Holding the World Economy Hostage’, Photo: AP, September 2019; Photo illustration, ‘Free Trade Is Dead. Long Live Managed Trade’. Photo: Alamy; January 2020; Cover, ‘McDonalds has a new secret sauce’. Photograph by Evan Ortiz, September 2019; Cover, ‘Did Foxconn con Wisconsin?’. photograph by Young Shu, February 2019; UNTITLED PHOTOGRAPH, 2019; BUSINESSWEEK CONT’D — DETAIL, ‘Greenland’s Rare-Earth Minerals Make It Trump’s Treasure Island’, August 2019 FILMED BY KILIII YUYAN; Various Details, ‘The Elements Issue’, WITh Folder Studio, August 2019; Excerpt, ‘Matter Still Matters’ Video Explainer, Starring Peter Coy, August 2019; Photo illustration, ‘Millions in Hong Kong Have Been Exposed to Tear Gas Since June’, November 2019; COVER, ‘Hong Kong’S countdown to 2047’, August 2019; Detail, ‘The Great Moscow Bank Shakedown’, December 2019. Photo: TASS/GETTY IMAGES; Detail ‘Move fast and Vape Things’, October 2019. Photograph by MARK ABRAMSON; VOLUME 3 FEATURING Avalon Emerson, WITH DEVIN LEONARD. PHOTOgraph BY Adam Kremer, June 2019 (2); BUSINESSWEEK CONT’D — Cover, ‘The Apology Machine’ With Jaci Kessler Lubliner and James Singleton, March 2019. Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images; Illustration, ‘The Grim Outlook for Europe’s banks’, March 2019. Image: Massacre of the Innocents by Paul Rubens; Detail, Separation / Distance title design with Qiu Yang, Oct 2018; BUSINESSWEEK CONT’D — ‘DONT ▇▇▇ With Elon’ March 2013 (2); Still, REM KOOLHAAS Title design with Qiu Yang, October 2018; Untitled Contribution, Other Way ZINE (PRIMA MATERIA), February 2019; UNTITLED PHOTOGRAPH, 2018; BUSINESSWEEK CONT’D — Detail, ‘Letter from London, March 2029’, December 2018. Photo illustration by Justin Metz; Photo: Carlos HernÁNDEZ CalVO/INSTITUTE; Cover, ‘Cash ADVANCE. SIGN HERE. Lose Everything’, November 2018. Filmed by Jamie Chung; Cover, ‘The Mystery of the Murdered Billionaires’, October 2018. Photo: Aline Sandler; Cover and illustration ‘The Big Hack: How China used a tiny chip to infiltrate America’s top companies’, October 2018. Photograph by Victor Prado. 3D Illustration by Scott Gelber (2); Detail, ‘Loyalty, Loyalty, Loyalty?’, August 2018. Photos: Mandel Ngan, Spencer Platt / Getty Images (3); Cover and Selected Pages from The New Space Age special issue, July 2018. Photographs by: Steven Brahms, John A. Chakeres, Steven Meckler, NASA, ESA and the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum. Chart by Dorothy Gambrell. type customizations by Dinamo (13); Poster and title designs for Design Canada, a documentary film by Greg DUrrell, May 2018 (2); BUSINESSWEEK CONT’D — Spread, ‘The NBA has plenty of talent. The question is what to do with it’ June 2018. Photo Illustration by Pelle cass (2); Photo Illustration, ‘Trump’s Pick to Lead Weather Agency Spent 30 Years Fighting It’, June 2018. Photo: MARK WILSON/GETTY IMAGES; Cover, ‘How to Fix a Fragile System’, June 2018; Detail, ‘How not to Negotiate a $6.1 Billion deal’, May 2018. Photograph by Meredith Jenks; VOLUME 2 FEATURING STEVE LEHMAN, WITH DEVIN LEONARD, APRIL 2018; BUSINESSWEEK CONT’D — Cover, ‘Mexico Loves AMLO’, MAY 2018. Photograph by Brett Gundlock; UNTITLED PHOTOGRAPH, 2017; BUSINESSWEEK CONT’D — PHOTO ILLUSTRATION, ‘WHAT IF THE PRESIDENT LOSES HIS PARTY?’, AUGUST 2017. PHOTO: SCOTT OLSON/GETTY; DETAIL, IN BRIEF, OCTOBER 2017. PHOTO: BAZ RATNER/REUTERS; Detail, Homepage design, April 2017. Photograph by CARLOS SAAVEDRA (2); ASIAN COVER, ‘MADE IN ETHIOPIA BY CHINA’, MARCH 2018. PHOTOgraph by NICHOLE SOBECKI, TAG: JUSTIN METZ; PHOTO ILLUSTRATION, ‘THERE WILL BE XI’, MARCH 2018; EUROPEAN COVER, ‘THE ANGRY SPANISH DIVIDE’, OCTOBER 2017. Photo: Juan Teixeira/Redux; DETAIL, IN BRIEF, FEBRUARY 2018. PHOTO: REUTERS; EUROPEAN COVER, ‘IS IT TIME TO BREAK UP BIG TECH?’, JULY 2017; Detail, Article page design, April 2017. Maps by Mark Glassman; VOLUME 1 FEATURING BEA1991, WITH DEVIN LEONARD, FEBRUARY 2017 (2). PHOTOgraph BY QIU YANG; BUSINESSWEEK CONT’D — PHOTO ILLUSTRATION, ‘HOW CLIMATE RULES MIGHT FADE AWAY’, DECEMBER 2016. PHOTO: SEAN GALLUP/GETTY IMAGES; ‘OUT-UBERING UBER’, OCTOBER 2016. PHOTOgraph by Ka Xiaoxi; SPREAD, ‘THE ELECTORATE’ ISSUE, OCTOBER 2016. Photo: Andrew Holbrook/Getty (2); ‘IS THE EVERYTHING STORE FOR EVERYONE?’ WITH DAVID INGOLD, APRIL 2016 (4); Cover, ‘The new Money Issue’, December 2016. Photograph by Amy Lombard. Typeface by Laurenz Brunner; COVER, ‘LARRY SUMMERS HAS SOMETHING TO SAY’, MAY 2016. Photos: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg, Federal Reserve; WARDROBE BY TOSSIJN, ART DIRECTION AND TYPOGRAPHY, 2016. UNUSED POSTER DESIGN. PHOTOGRAPHS BY CAROLINE TOMPKINS (6); BUSINESSWEEK CONT’D — DETAIL, ‘HOW DID ALL OF THIS GET SO UGLY?’, JULY 2016; DETAIL, ‘JARED KUSHNER'S LONG GAME’, MAY 2016; ILLUSTRATION, ‘EUROPE HAS A PULSE’, MAY 2015; Detail, ‘JUSTICE FOR THE BIG GUYS’, PHOTO: JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/GETTY; SIGNAGE, Website, AND PUBLICATION DESIGN FOR BLOOMBERG BUSINESSWEEK DESIGN 2016, WITH TRACY MA, APRIL 2016 (4); UNTITLED VIDEO (HUMAN SIGN ON BREAK), APRIL 2016; DETAIL, ‘THE DESIGN ISSUE’, APRIL 2016. PHOTOgraphs by JOHN FRANCIS PETERS; DETAIL, ‘THE GREATEST MUSEUM NEVER KNOWN’, NOVEMBER 2015; ASIAN COVER, ‘TWITTER SHARING ALL YOUR INFORMATION LIKE’, OCTOBER 2016. Photo; SPREAD, ‘MI CASA ES MI CASA’, SEPTEMBER 2015. PHOTOgraph by NACHO ALEGRE (2); SPREAD, ‘CAN DAVID CHERNICKY SURVIVE ANOTHER EARTHQUAKE?’, APRIL 2015. PHOTOgraph by BRYAN SCHUTMAAT (2); SPREAD, ‘LOAN WOLF’, MARCH 2015. PHOTOgraphs by RYAN LOWRY (2); DETAIL, ‘SHADOW BANKER’, FEBRUARY 2015. PHOTOgraph by JOÃO CANZIANI; Detail, ‘Is there Anyone David Boies won’t Represent?’, May 2015; DETAIL, ‘GEORGE HOTZ MADE A DRIVERLESS CAR BY HIMSELF IN HIS GARAGE AND IT WORKS’, DECEMBER 2015. Photograph by Peter Bohler; SPREAD, ‘FRUIT, NOBU, UNCLE, LITTLE, FATTY’, APRIL 2016. PHOTOS: KIRSTY WIGGLESWORTH/AP, CHRIS RATCLIFFE/BLOOMBERG, MATTHEW LLOYD/GETTY IMAGES (2); EUROPEAN COVER, ‘DYING AT EUROPE’S DOORSTEP’, APRIL 2015. PHOTO: LYNSEY ADDARIO/GETTY; UNTITLED PHOTOGRAPH, 2017; RECORD SLEEVE DESIGN FOR OWEN PALLETT IN CONFLICT LP, WITH COLIN BERGH, 2014; SEED PACKAGING FOR NIKE FLYKNIT AIRMAX, WITH DONA ABUAF AND ANDY WALKER, AT NIKE BRAND DESIGN STUDIO, HILVERSUM, 2014 (2); THESES PUBLICATIONS FOR GERRIT RIETVELD ACADEMIE TEXTILE DEPARTMENT, 2012–2014. WITH Joke Robaard, ASSISTANCE FROM MOONSICK GANG (5); DETAIL, POSTER SCREEN PRINT LITHOGRAPHY, PHOTOGRAPH BY QIU YANG, 2009; GERRIT–WILLEM D-I-Y NEWSPAPER SERIES, GERRIT RIETVELD ACADEMIE, 2011–2013. PHOTOGRAPHS BY ANIKA SCHWARZLOSE (6); ENTRANCE SIGN FOR GERRIT RIETVELD ACADEMIE / SANDBERG INSTITUTE, AMSTERDAM, 2014; Website design for Barbara Amalie Skovmand Thomsen, with Denny Backhaus, 2012; YOU TALKING TO ME? INSERT PUBLICATION WITH BIK VAN DER POL, AND 98 WEEKS, 2012; ARNHEM FASHION BIANNUAL AMBER, WITH LAURENZ BRUNNER, JULIA BORN AND JOFF, 2011. PHOTOGRAPHS BY ANUSCHKA BLOMMERS AND NIELS SCHUMM IN COLLABORATION WITH UTA EISENREICH; DETAIL, NEWSPAPER JAN MOT NO. 69, IN ASSISTANCE TO MAUREEN MOOREN, OCTOBER 2009. TEXT BY Jeppe Hein; DETAIL, COS MAGAZINE Nº6, WITH JOP VAN BENNEKOM AND VERONICA DITTING, 2010; LETTERHEAD (REVERSE) FOR GERRIT RIETVELD ACADEMIE, 2008.