A black and white line drawing of a person sitting at a desk with a computer, surrounded by various office items.
A black and white line drawing of a person in a hoodie and pants, carrying a backpack, standing on steps in front of a building with trees around.
A black cat sitting on a wooden deck next to a white laundry basket filled with clothes, with a green plant and a blurred background.

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About Alex

Hi! My name is Alexander Vance, but you can call me Alex. I am a recent graduate from Marshall University. I earned a bachelor’s in fine arts with an emphasis in graphic design. I am most interested in design with creative flexibility, experimental typography, bright colors, print media, merchandise, and especially design for musicians.

A person with short curly red hair, glasses, wearing a white shirt and black pants, sitting cross-legged on the floor, reading a newspaper.
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View fullsize The second animal metaphors piece :) I hope to never be inspired like Kumar. That quote and the fish pictures came from a ripleys believe it or not book. I choose to not believe for the sake of the fish.
View fullsize The first in a pair of animal metaphor collages :) let's beat this dead horse. Hold your horses, 9x9" mixed media collage
View fullsize In one week! My shop will be live and you'll be able to purchase all these beautiful stickers :) mark your calendars and set your alarms. So excited for this next step!
View fullsize The final one :) exciting announcement coming soon now that the series is over
View fullsize This one might be my favorite. Tied with the first dots. One more after this :)
View fullsize I thought this was my last one but then I went and made another. And then I found an additional one in my camera roll. The dots are forever
View fullsize The visions continue to plague me. This one reminds me of nyan cat.
View fullsize How do I explain this first quote. It's an abridged version of an abridged translation from the song "Oda al Átomo" (ode to the atom) by Pablo Neruda in the book "The Idiot" by Elif Batuman. I was first exposed to the abrid
View fullsize I wove some old Archie comics together :) very fun texture irl. Big fan of the weird combo text. Reminds me of a captcha. Colors came out pretty on my epson scanner. Enjoy 〰️ 〰️ 〰️ 〰️#comics #woven #archie #collage #comicart
View fullsize Another orange collage using thrifted books and colored paper 〰️ 〰️ 〰️ 〰️ #collage #papercraft #natureart #orange #cutandpaste
View fullsize I 🧡 collage. I thrifted a botanical book from the 70s and reused an orange mailer for the background. Cacti and bubbles, as above so below or wutevr 〰️ 〰️ 〰️ 〰️ #collage #botanical #art #papercraft #cacti
View fullsize I colored these in the hospital :) for the aforementioned seizure and tomfoolery following seizure. Love a good mandala. Love making them more complicated than they need to be. White crayola crayon and washable marker on predawn glossy cardstock felt
View fullsize Hi everyone. I had a seizure. Might have epilepsy. Here's two collages of what I see when I'm falling asleep at night. Not every night. But probably more frequently than I should. Or maybe they're not correlated at all. (Most accurate collage first).
View fullsize An old sketchbook spread from like 3 years ago at this point. I just hadn't posted it because I wanted to tweak it in Photoshop and just today did I have the motivation to fix it. First slide is my edits and second is the unedited scan I took years a
View fullsize Reminder to the gay people that live in my gay phone: Hi! Me too! Also everyone go read "We both laughed in pleasure: diaries of Lou Sullivan," if you're the type of gay person in my phone that like to snoop on historical gay trans figures
View fullsize A 5x7 Lino print and a crumb of context on the next slide. I wrote a book my freshman year and now theres 50 chilling in my storage unit with tons of stickers. What do you do when you made something but like 4 years ago so you're way better now and s

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A chessboard with various chess pieces arranged for a game.
A silhouette of a cat playing with a toy mouse.
Black and white cartoon drawing of a woman in professional attire with glasses, holding a pointer and presenting at a board with charts and graphs.
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