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Forbes
28-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
The Visual Artist So Many Cool Brands Want
Alex Alpert, Visual Artist Alex Alpert is a phenomenon who in the past 3 years has created visual art with his fun, highly engaging style for brands including Nike, Subway, Jet Blue, Red Bull, Adobe, American Express, BMW, Puma, Chelsea FC, The U.S. Olympic Ski Team, The Chicago Bulls, McLaren, Bugatti, INEOS Grenadier, Sharpie markers and acrylic pens, as well as museum art, all without an agent or social media team. One success has led to another, in part because he creates so much of his art live, at high traffic, high profile events where he's seen by many brand decision-makers. It's entertaining and awe-inspiring to watch his images come to life. Alex Alpert creating his customized art live at events As a kid, Alex was always drawing and creating art and graffiti. He trained as a musician in piano and voice and won a scholarship to college for singing. After graduation Alex worked for Universal Music Group in marketing, which has served him well navigating the world of large corporate brands. During COVID, he made the decision to go back to his love for creating art and he refined his unique style that resonates with a wide range of people. That signature style typically involves black and white lines with curves in various thicknesses. Embedded symbols that tell stories that engage people who enjoy discovering them, a bit like Where's Waldo. Alex customizes the work for each client based on a combination of brand briefings, his own research, and free associations with the subject. He initially applied his art to friends' sneakers and bags which went viral and led the way to his first corporate deal with the handbag company Hammitt. Mural for jetBlue painted by Alex Alpert at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn The range of work since has been astounding and demand has snowballed. A restaurateur, Eytan Sugarman, asked Alex to create a tribute to New York City for a mural in one of his restaurants. That led to a mural for the Jet Blue Lounge at the Barclay Center. For athletes at the NBA All-Stars game, he created sneakers for players like Luka Dončić, who loved them. The hand-drawn, customized sneakers have delighted recipients from celebrities to lucky customers in special brand promotions. FEATURED | Frase ByForbes™ Unscramble The Anagram To Reveal The Phrase Pinpoint By Linkedin Guess The Category Queens By Linkedin Crown Each Region Crossclimb By Linkedin Unlock A Trivia Ladder Subway sandwich wrapper and RedBull mural designed by Alex Alpert Strategically, collaborations with Alex have been great for brands. Part of the appeal are the brand stories he tells through the art. The sandwich wrapper he designed for Subway has become the permanent wrapper. It tells Subway's history in an engaging way, with details like a depiction of its original store location back when it was called 'Pete's Subway'. It imbues Subway with a more memorable, creative, fun and celebratory brand image. Many brands like associating themselves with cool, relatively young artists, as it shows they support creativity, taste curation, and discovery. It's fun to watch as Alex creates in places like the New York International Auto Show or the National Retail Federation trade show which attract broad audiences and media attention. For the high-end Grenadier car brand at the 2025 New York Auto Show, Alex drew all over their latest $79,000 station wagon while people watched and even returned later to see the progress. The Grenadier car and Alex were featured on a CBS News segment that aired during the show. Once the entire car is covered in Alex's drawings, it will be covered with a clear seal to lock in the design. From there it will be displayed at various auto shows and art fairs, which in turn will attract further media interest. This all helps the relatively new Grenadier car brand get noticed by coveted target audiences, and increases earned media generated by influencers, viewers, and traditional media. Videos of Alex's branded art in the making is fun brand content for social media, and watching the art in progress engages viewers for longer than any ad or billboard possibly could. New York Children's Museum of Art X Google and Synergia NY - Annual Autism Initiative Picnic Brands have been collaborating with artists to greater or lesser degrees for years, but it's rare for an artist to be: Artist collaborations can be great for brand image, making brands seem more fun, cool, curatorial, and creative. In the fight for consumer and media attention, they help brands stand out, get noticed, and enable more quality time spent with more unique and engaging content.
Buzz Feed
03-03-2025
- General
- Buzz Feed
60 People Who Woke Up One Morning Over The Past Month And Promptly Destroyed Their Entire Lives
1. The person whose chili is now in the great Le Creuset in the sky: 2. The person who learned a valuable lesson about drinking while cooking: 3. The person who just discovered a brand new flavor of gum: 4. The person who lived a Larry David-esque nightmare: 5. The person whose iron is currently burning a hole to the center of the Earth: 6. The person whose mistake will be immortalized in that parking lot forever: 7. The person whose seal plush has seen some things... terrible things: 8. The person who did the slowest of slow cooking: 9. The person who has to deal with Schrödinger's lemonade: 10. The person who gave their AirPod a burial at sea: 11. The person who's going to have to wait until spring for payday: 12. The person who was nice enough to share some dinner with a friendly, not dirty at all lizard: 13. The person who shall spend the rest of their days stuck inside this bottle: 16. The person who definitely said something they shouldn't have to the bartender: 17. The person whose car might just get a snow day now: u/scaleofthought / Via 18. The person who just played the world's worst game of "Where's Waldo:" u/retr0racing / Via 20. The person who had the privilege of training a brand new flavor of cake pop: u/typicallyusual / Via 21. The person who added a little spice to their laundry room: u/capnshady / Via 23. The person who will never financially recover from this: u/antelopepuzzled8877 / Via 24. The person who loves their cat very much, I'm sure: u/allergies___ / Via 25. The person who got the sweet taste of cherry menthol in their nuggets: u/eveningminimum3331 / Via 26. The person who learned one of life's oldest lessons: u/fallawy / Via 27. The person who is straight up about to encounter a Looney Tunes scenario: 28. The person who murdered a poor, defenseless ketchup packet: u/contra31 / Via 29. The person whose diploma got bent. Oh, it got bent: u/theharkules / Via 30. The person whose headphones are really going through it right now: u/shilby92 / Via 31. The person who should never, EVER open this trash can: u/agnar_95 / Via 32. The proud owner of a brand new freckle: u/mulder917 / Via 33. The person whose bananas simply unraveled: u/flynnerrol / Via 34. The person who ran into yet another Looney Tunes scenario while moving: u/kamehamehameow / Via 35. The person whose path became the victim of a crime: u/sal101 / Via 36. The person with the wrinkliest hands around: 37. The person who loves their dog very much, I'm sure: u/robynmisty / Via 38. The person who just got assigned the world's worst work email: u/jonnyf / Via Sorry, Steve. 39. The person who will have to wait for Spring to venture out: u/NoSyllabub1535 / Via 40. The person whose bag is now one with the angels: u/leenis13 / Via 41. The person who will be eatin' good tonight: u/pizzasgreat / Via 42. The person whose shoe got turned into DUST: u/srovium / Via 43. The person who had a delicious, moldy breakfast: u/RandyBoBandy___ / Via 44. The person whose breath must've been extra stinky today: u/shamus_on_you_boo / Via 45. The person who made a terrible, terrible mistake: u/sippykup / Via 46. The person who picked the absolute worst place to park that day: u/fruittybaskett86 / Via 47. The person whose washing machine shall wash no more: u/lentilrice / Via 48. The person who learned that rotten eggs are a very, very real thing: u/flightlessbirdies / Via 49. The person who got trapped in a prison of their own making: u/theatlascomplex / Via 50. The person who added a little extra grit and flavor to their pie: u/fabuji / Via 51. The person who might want to buff out that scratch on their phone: u/Klutzy-Conclusion229 / Via 52. The person who saved their beloved at what cost: u/ingloriusjesse / Via 53. The person who pulled THIS out of their finger: u/original-hospital / Via 54. The person who got to have a nice, up-close, and personal interaction with their fellow traveler: 55. The person whose friend's shoes will be sticking to their passenger seat until the end of time: u/harrietpa / Via 56. The person who had this Looney Toons-esque series of events happen to them: u/silkanwrong101 / Via 57. The person who's going to be stepping on grains of rice until the cows come home: u/sarahc42 / Via 58. The person whose kettle went to the great big tea set in the sky: 59. The person who had one attempt and guessed very, very wrong: u/dintinko / Via 60. And the person whose light defies all explanation: u/padreg / Via I don't know, buddy. I'd just go back to bed.
Yahoo
18-02-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Gaston County woman served in the West Wing under seven presidents
DALLAS, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) – Dallas, North Carolina, may seem a world away from Washington, D.C. But at the an exhibit called 'Nell Yates: Woman in the Wing' spotlights a local woman who became a White House staff fixture. 'She wouldn't say a lot to any of us about their affairs,' said Kelly Privette, Yates's great-niece. Her Aunt Nell worked for a staggering seven presidents from 1953 to 1986. 'It started with Eisenhower and went all the way to Reagan,' Privette told Queen City News. 'She was the personal assistant, she did not like the word 'secretary.'' Yates was more than her job title because she earned their trust with time. 'That's one of my favorite pictures of her hugging him,' says Privette, pointing at a picture in the museum. 'The tearful farewell of President Ford leaving, and he comforts Aunt Nell.' As we see in the exhibit, she was even the subject of a political cartoon. Yates was ever-present during the Nixon years. 'He was the first woman to go to China and Aunt Nell went with him,' Privette explained. In 1972, photos were taken at a ping-pong exhibition in China. Next to the first couple, to the far right, you'll see Yates. 'There she is,' said Privette, pointing at her Aunt Nell off to the side near former First Lady Pat Nixon. Looking for Nell is like a White House version of 'Where's Waldo?' Yates was at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue during good times, and the worst of times, including the assassination of JFK. 'She was at the White House,' a loved one says. 'Right and had to arrange for the body to be transported back, and arrange the service,' Privette answered. The Yates exhibit includes the funeral invitation she received. Before she died seven years ago at 93, she donated more than a thousand items to the Gaston County Museum. 'And because she was born in Alexis, outside of Dallas, it came here!' Privette said. 'Photos, paraphernalia, pins, pens, you name it,' says curator Alicyn Wiedrich. 'She went on to do some great things for some of the most powerful people in the world, and she stayed humble, she was a family woman, and she was just a force to be reckoned with.' The exhibit documents 33 years in the West Wing. But as comprehensive as it is, loved ones say it doesn't begin to tell Nell Yates's story beyond the White House. '[The exhibit is] great, that's wonderful,' says niece-in-law Cathy O'Brien. 'That's not the Nell we know and love and miss so much. Because she didn't talk about her days in the White House.' Nell was a gourmet cook and loved gardening and golf. She never had children, but was the greatest aunt ever, inviting Privette to the White House as a little girl. ''You can go on the White House lawn, don't embarrass me,'' she told her. Yates' family says the way she worked and lived is a lesson for all of us. 'If you would ask her if she was a Republican or a Democrat she would say, 'I am what the President is.' It was about the president; it was not about the politics,' Privette says. 'It's possible to serve in government without making that your entire identity and your entire life,' said O'Brien. 'She was a wonderful example of public service.' 'It was about the people,' says Privette. 'And if we could all behave that way in today's society, we would be a lot better off.' And what Nell Yates didn't care to talk about too much is now a source of family pride. 'She kept her relationship with the White House and the staff there quiet and she filled her life with all kinds of rich and enjoyable things,' said O'Brien. 'Nell Yates: Woman in the Wing' will be on exhibit through July 5 at the Gaston County Museum. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Buzz Feed
09-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Buzz Feed
22 People Who Made A Really, Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Bad Decision Last Week And Suffered The Consequences
1. The person whose chili is now in the great Le Creuset in the sky: 2. The person whose seal plush has seen some things... terrible things: 3. The person who has to deal with Schrödinger's lemonade: 4. The person who gave their AirPod a burial at sea: 5. The person who learned a valuable lesson about drinking while cooking: 6. The person who's going to have to wait until spring for payday: 7. The person who was nice enough to share some dinner with a friendly, not dirty at all lizard: 8. The person who lived a Larry David-esque nightmare: 9. The person who shall spend the rest of their days stuck inside this bottle: 10. The person who did the slowest of slow cooking: 11. The person who straight up got screwed: 12. The person who found a special kind of horror inside their crawl space: 13. The person whose pockets are an afront to all things good and pockety: 14. The person who definitely said something they shouldn't have to the bartender: 15. The person who should have never reached into their pocket: Click to reveal 16. The person whose car might just get a snow day now: 17. The person who just played the world's worst game of "Where's Waldo:" 18. The person whose computer just got gooped up: 19. The person who had the privilege of training a brand new flavor of cake pop: u/typicallyusual / Via 20. The person who added a little spice to their laundry room: u/capnshady / Via 21. The person who I'm pretty sure legally owns whoever's car this is: u/annualmushrooms / Via 22. And the person whose light defies all explanation: u/padreg / Via I don't know, buddy. I'd just go back to bed.
