Alex Weil

Alex Weil is the award-winning executive creative director and founder of New York-based "design and build" digital atelier - Charlex. As designer, storyteller and technical innovator, he has delivered breakthrough moments in digital imagemaking for over 25 years. From groundbreaking work with multi-layered video effects for projects like The Cars' 'You Might Think' - netting the young director MTV's first ever Best Music Video Award - to acclaimed projects for Saturday Night Live, IBM and Budweiser, Weil has become synonymous with the aesthetics and language of digital communication. Weil broke ground early by embracing video as his creative medium at a time when it was considered only a primitive delivery system. Motivated by a 'never before' attitude he developed innovative alternatives for producing motion graphics and effects. By the early 1980s Charlex was single-handedly challenging the slower and expensive optical houses and quickly earning a reputation in the advertising and