Alex Hunting Studio is an award-winning creative agency with a global client list. We deliver creative consultancy, art direction, editorial direction and design for cultural institutions, luxury, lifestyle and media brands. Our work spans visual identities and campaigns, websites, moving image and publications, with an approach rooted in editorial thinking. Alongside this, we conceive and deliver full-service editorial projects, from initial concept and commissioning through to design, production and print.
Founder Alex Hunting [1.] is also the design director of the cult quarterly lifestyle magazine Kinfolk [2.], which has been created in collaboration with Alex Hunting Studio since our first award-winning redesign in 2016. Recent clients have included the brands John Lewis, AWS, Rapha and New Balance, art institutions such as White Cube, and editorial partners Guardian Labs, De Tijd, Thames & Hudson and The New York Times.
A graduate of the London College of Communication, Alex Hunting is an award winning Art Director with over a decade of experience in the design industry. His work has been awarded by D&AD, The Art Director's Club of New York, Creative Review and The Society of Publication Designers. As well as running the studio, Alex also gives lectures on visual communication and has been a jury member at leading international design competitions.
Delving deeply into home, work, style and culture, Kinfolk promotes quality of life and connects a global community of creative professionals from London to Tokyo. Since 2011, Kinfolk has become a leading lifestyle authority with a dynamic mix of print and online media, including a quarterly magazine sold in over 100 countries in four languages, daily posts on Kinfolk.com, bestselling books, plus international events and gallery spaces in the heart of both Copenhagen and Seoul.
Studio Details
Our approach is rooted in editorial thinking. We begin by understanding what a project needs to say, who it needs to reach and the most compelling way to tell that story, before developing the visual and editorial language around it. Projects can begin with a clearly defined brief or with little more than an idea. Depending on the scope, we can work as a creative partner alongside an existing team, or take responsibility for an entire project—from concept and strategy through to art direction, design, commissioning, production and print.
Over years of working across magazines, books, brands and culture, we have built an exceptional international network of photographers, writers, editors, stylists, illustrators, producers, printers and specialist makers. We assemble bespoke teams for each project, bringing together the people and partners best suited to its subject and ambition. This allows the studio to work at different scales: from focused visual identity and digital commissions to complete editorial projects, conceived, commissioned, designed, produced and delivered from the ground up.
Art Direction
Branding
Editorial Direction
Editorial Design
Editorial Strategy + Commissioning
Packaging Design
Photography Direction
Print Production + Procurement
Shoot Production
Type Design
Web Design + Code
2026
D&AD Awards
Wooden Pencil
Footnote No.2
ADC Awards
Silver Cube
You Can Now Magazine
2025
D&AD Awards
Graphite Pencil
Footnote No.1
2023
D&AD Awards
Graphite Pencil
Kindling Magazine 3
ADC Awards
Gold Cube
Kindling Magazine 3
2022
D&AD Awards
Graphite Pencil
Kindling Magazine 2
ADC Awards
Bronze Cube
Kinfolk Magazine 40
ADC Awards
Bronze Cube
Kindling Magazine 2
2019
D&AD Awards
Wooden Pencil
(Typography)
Matter Magazine
D&AD Awards
Nomination
(Book Design)
The Eye
2018
German Design Awards
Nomination
Kinfolk Magazine 23
2017
D&AD Awards
Wooden Pencil
Kinfolk Magazine 23
SPD Awards 52
Gold Medal
(Trade / Brand Magazines)
Mondial Issue 4
SPD Awards 52
Silver Medal
(Redesign)
Kinfolk Magazine 22
2016
Type Directors Club (63)
Cert. of Excellence
Rapha Mondial 4
D&AD Awards
Graphite Pencil
Rapha Mondial 2
Creative Review Annual
Winner
Rapha Mondial 2
SPD Awards 51
Merit
You Can Now Issue 5
Type Directors Club (62)
Cert. of Merit
Rapha Mondial 2
2014
D&AD Awards
Wooden Pencil
You Can Now 1
We do offer paid creative internships. Email us a link to your website and why you are interested in working with us at:
intern@alexhunting.studio