CLEAR THINKING
MADE VISUAL.

ALEX PANAYOTOV

WEB DESIGNER

WEB / UI / UX / PRINT / MOTION

WEB DEVELOPER

HTML / CSS / JAVASCRIPT

About.

INSPIRED BY DIFFERENCE.

Welcome to my personal webpage. Take a moment to briefly have a sneak-peak of my professional portfolio, education grade and the some of the projects I’ve been involved in. I’ll be glad to reach out to me if you think I can contribute to you and your business.

My name is Alex and I’m a person qualified in many design-based  areas like graphic design, motion design, web/print design, IU/UX, photography/videography for more than 20 years. For these years, I collected enormous amount of really strong and steady experience in different fields of Design.

I started my work experience in one of the biggest Print Houses in Bulgaria as a Desktop prepress specialist and Art Director/Senior graphic designer. There, I was managing the whole process – from birth of the idea, until implementing it in all marketing materials – such as collateral pieces (posters, flyers, brochures), website, event campaign, corporate video production etc. While working on huge amount of international projects for customers like Festo, Citroen, Louis Vuitton, M&M Militzer & Much and many more, I learned deeply not only all different print techniques (such as Offset printing, Digital printing, Digital offset printing, all additional polygrahy actions as hot stamping, embossing etc.), but important things like corporate trends, best practices, brand identity tips etc.

Then I was hired by Software AG, one of the biggest and most known software companies in the world (second in Europe), I gradually walked the path from a regular graphic designer of a Head of Creative Services. As such, I’m leading a team of 6 graphic designers, being responsible for the overall look-and-feel of the Brand of the company, leading campaigns, corporate events, initiatives and many other internal and external activities.

Work.

RECENT PROJECTS.

Work Skills.

GREAT DESIGN MATTERS.

Please find below professional areas where I have experience in. Throughout the past years, I gained strong and deep knowledge in many marketing areas by combining different types if design and implementing them successfully in order to provide a better advertising outcome.
WEB / UI / UX

Understanding IU/UX concepts for web-based projects like websites, social media memes, campaign banners etc. Working with content in Adobe AEM/DAM, WordPress, HTML, CSS, JavaScript. Providing support in many other CMS systems.

PRINT / PREPRESS / PUBLISHING

I’ve been working on many marketing materials meant to be printed out on paper, cardboard and many other media types. Deep understanding of Desktop publishing, color separation, digital and offset printing, embossing, hot stamping, folding and all other paper-based brochures and leaflets. Experience in CMYK, RGB and other color spaces. Preparing files for print and all additional effect treatments.

PHOTO / VIDEO / EDITING / RETOUCHING

Professional experience in photo and video shooting. Aware of many shooting technologies – DSLR, mirrorless, camcorder, audio, compositing, editing etc. Being a professionally hired as a photographer and videographer. Owning a rich set of photography/videography gear and able to shoot events, campaigns etc.

BRANDING / MARKETING

Actively led and participated in a couple of rebranding campaigns. Successfully create and present in front of the Board a new concept for the Brand – logotypes, tone of voice, messaging, color philosophy, design concepts, event branding and treatment etc.

Skills.

RESULTS DRIVEN DESIGN.

See some product-based professional experience I gained over the past years.

Web design

Wordpress 70%
Figma 84%
UX/UI Design 77%
Adobe XD 82%
Adobe AEM / DAM 76%

Print design

Adobe Photoshop 92%
Adobe lllustrator 81%
Adobe InDesign 87%

Motion / Animation

Adobe Premiere Pro 92%
Adobe After Effects 55%

Web development

HTML 89%
CSS 78%
JavaScript 69%
PHP 25%
Java 15%

Other

Microsoft Office – Word, PowerPoint, Excel 93%
Event videography 89%
Event photography 92%

Career.

MAKE A DIFFERENCE.

See below the companies I’ve being working for the past 20+ years. 

UI / Interaction Designer (now)

SAP Company Information

As a global leader in enterprise applications and business AI, SAP  stands at the nexus of business and technology. For over 50 years, organisations have trusted SAP  to bring out their best by uniting business-critical operations spanning finance, procurement, HR, supply chain, and customer experience.

www.sap.com

I’m currently working as Interaction designer in SAP Labs Bulgaria. My role is tightly related not only with pure UI design, but also with many UX patterns and core design fundamentals. I’m responsible for recreating visual documentation (text, imagery, content phrasing etc.) for entire SAP Design system library, implementing several SAP-related technologies and turning them into a cohesive standalone document by presenting all Design system UI components as one unified  source of truth for building up software applications. Working together with other designers, UX writers and software engineers, we successfully recreated the majority of Design system’s UI components so far and moving forward to even improve the overall journey for all customers who use SAP Design system.

Senior Graphic Designer | Head of Creative Services (2013 – 2025)

International Software company

Software AG helps you create effortlessly connected experiences for your customers, employees and partners with an AI-enabled enterprise iPaaS that integrates anything, anywhere, any way you want. By bringing application, data, API and B2B integration together in the same platform, you can run a high-performing enterprise and constantly improve it based on data. Trusted by the world’s best brands for more than 50 years, our technology and team of integration enthusiasts will make sure that integration is a driver of innovation for your enterprise.

www.softwareag.com

I’ve been working for Software AG for more than 12 years. During this period, I grew up from a regular Graphic designer, through Senior motion designer and up to heading the Design team of the company. The team I’ve been leading consists of 7 designers based in Germany and Bulgaria. As a Head of Creative Services in Software AG, I have always strived to lead and manage the team to successfully provide excellent support and contribute to the company effectively, efficiently, always exceeding customers’ expectation and of course, always on time. I’ve initiated, organised and led numerous internal Design thinking workshops where we discussed, argued and developed ideas for improving internal processes, core design concepts, essential design topics and many other design-related topics, improving company presence and making it standing out. The team was acting as an internal advertising agency for the company, providing design support for all employees of the company (approx.. 5000 employees). 

Me and my team were responsible for creating, supporting and evolving the entire Brand of software AG. Our daily professional activities are:

  • Several fully corporate rebranding campaigns
    • brand identity
    • brand presence
    • tone of voice
    • appearance
    • brand awareness
  • Multiple partial rebranding campaigns
    • apply corporate identity on the company business strategy 
    • align branding with long-term business direction
  • Key visuals for events
    • design concepts 
    • booth design
    • tabletop design
    • showcase design
  • Web design support
    • webpages in Adobe AEM / DAM
    • provide design for graphics, schemes
  • Campaign marketing materials
    • banners and memes for social media
    • video footage and animated pieces
    • MS Word / MS PowerPoint design support
  • Print marketing material
    • collateral pieces – fact sheets, whitepapers, customer stories
    • posters, flyers, brochures, leaflets
    • giveaways – pens, hats, t-shirts, bottles etc.
  • Managing the file structure of the Design server
  • Managing and supporting many internal SharePoint website

Senior / Lead Graphic Designer (2004 – 2013)

Advertising / Printing agency Dita-MM Ltd.
Local advertising agency with printing equipment in digital print, offset print, embossing, hot stamp, gold stamp and many other additional paper finishing. The agency provides full print and design support with a complete prepress and print cycle – everything you need from an idea till the final print product – on all kind of media.

www.ditam.bg

Leading a team of designers and providing design support, prepress, desktop publishing for many local and international customers. Responsible for creating marketing materials starting from the initial idea, through designing, prototyping, customer presentation, customer approval, till delivering the end product or service to the customer.

Contact.

LET’S TALK.

Drop me a line and we can talk, chat or communicate via email. I reply on all my email on time, within few hours rarely.