Alex Aperios

It’s been a crazy first 6 months of the year. Looking back, I’m grateful for the variety of work we’ve had the chance to work on. Brand identities, websites, product design… it’s been one of our busiest and most rewarding periods yet. Can’t wait to start sharing more of it over the coming weeks. If you’re a founder planning a rebrand or new website, we’ve got a couple of project slots opening from late August.

@mikididthis Epic!

@AlexAperios Huge improvement 👋

I hear the X algo might be fixed! So technically my followers should see this now. Maybe the world is healing after all. 🤟🤟 What up everyone.

@ijsthee 🤣🤣

@AlexAperios Wait, who are you again?

@contraben Ah man! I’ve been hidden for a while it seems. I’ve been so active here as well 🤣 I haven’t seen you for ages as well.

@AlexAperios i see you finally

@DopeOblivion Finally!

@AlexAperios We are back

One thing we all should be doing is actually asking ourselves, do I even understand this brief before putting it into Claude or Chat? Because the likelihood is, that brief was written with AI. And before we know it, nothing emailed is actually human nor will it make any sense for the someone that consumes it.

@krispuckett I won’t lie, I’m tired of seeing england get this close so often 🤣🤣 just always out of our reach. But who knows could be this time!

England v Spain will go so hard historically.

@the_danielmason Good balance.

@AlexAperios I’m Gen Z and use a mouse at my desk and a trackpad when portable. What does that say about me?

People ready to feel pain - trackpad People already felt pain - mouse People who have too much time - wacom tablet

@ideasondesign Funny how different we all are with pain.

@AlexAperios I’m using a Wacom since 2005 because I felt pain with a mouse 😮‍💨

@zoop_design Must have wolverine wrists. 🤣

@AlexAperios I've used a trackpad for over ten years and would never use anything else

@DmitryKurash Insane patience to get good at those.

@AlexAperios The Wacom tablet gang is just aliens

@garethsrowe 🤣🤣🤣

@AlexAperios My colleague in our office hooks up her pro display to her macbook and just trackpads everything. She's working on a coffee table book for one of our clients atm and shes just placing everything immaculately. Just pure sociopathic behaviour.

@nickbakeddesign @TyroneC__ @NateWatkin @lifeofmansoor 🫶🫶

@TyroneC__ @NateWatkin @AlexAperios @lifeofmansoor Alex & Mansoor - double recommendation!

Looking to follow more brand designers. Who are the best ones you know?

@bentenwoodring 100% 🤣

@AlexAperios maybe i'm just a glutton for pain

@graceongrid After a day on the trackpad my wrist kills. Has to always be a mouse for me.

@AlexAperios Somehow I only ever had pain with a trackpad doing detailed masking work when I was a junior.

@dubois_norman Agencies with reputations can do this. But it rarely works if you want sustainable growth.

@AlexAperios I think it depends on the audience. I know a few agencies who don’t give a shit and just share great work — but the work is obviously amazing

Whenever someone says, “I’ve tried everything,” they usually haven’t. I’d bet they rarely share their work. And when they do, it’s something like: “A logo I made.” But why should a potential client care? A logo or Hero design on its own doesn’t solve a business problem. Clients aren’t buying the visual, they’re buying the outcome. Instead of showing what you made, show what changed. * Did the rebrand help them raise funding? * Did the new website increase conversions? * Did the new positioning help them charge more? * Did it make them look credible enough to win bigger clients? Too many designers create content for other designers. The people consistently winning work create content for the people they’re trying to sell to. They talk about business problems, decisions, results, and how their design helped a company grow. That’s the difference.

@stasmay I tried it, gt frustrated, never looked back. Ended up buying an iPad and apple pencil. Found that to be better.

@AlexAperios Wacom necessary for photoshop for me. All the fine details got me hooked on it.

@TyroneC__ @NateWatkin @lifeofmansoor Thanks Tyrone. 🙌🏼

@NateWatkin @AlexAperios is your guy. @lifeofmansoor for top shelf art direction

@JordanGilroy @FahadFramer Yeah it's weird, not had this before. but must detect AI images now. I edit my grammar with AI so could be that as well. 🤷🏼‍♂️

@FahadFramer @AlexAperios I was wondering the same! It made the thing the post was made with AI rather than just the visual

@AlexAperios why does it say made with ai?