Futurist, tech CEO, and makeup artist Alex Box, DDes, is working to make sure that as technology continues to evolve, our humanity and creativity isn’t lost. If you feel like social media, AI, and the metaverse are negatively affecting beauty standards, our self-esteem, and artist creativity, Alex offers an alternative: What if we all work together to change the systems? In this interview, she discusses “digital dignity,” how virtual spaces can inspire real-world connections, how to avoid echo chambers, and V-Metics, a virtual cosmetics software company she founded to help makeup artists transition their skills into the metaverse—and get proper credit for the work they do.
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Dr. Alex Box, Identity Designer + Beauty Futurist
Alex’s website
Creative Director at Illamasqua (2008 - 2015)
Founder of V-Metics: the world’s first virtual cosmetic software (launching soon!)
Toyah
Boy George
Greenpeace International
CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament)
“The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction” by Ursula K. Le Guin
Clubhouse
Alex Box by Rankin Hardcover
Wayne McGregor, Choreographer of “UNIVERSE: A DARK CRYSTAL ODYSSEY”
Avakin - online fashion game
The Folk Of The Faraway Tree Paperback
“Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion”, Francis Bacon
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
Ted Hughes
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