PROFESSIONAL SPACE, BUSINESS & CREATIVE HAVEN
WHAT WE DO
Flexibility in approach and method, continued connections with other dedicated, invested, hard-working, and receptive individuals, groups, communities, and companies are already baseline standards here. My priority: how can I implement a multi-faceted, complementary skillset and other serendipitous or interesting overlaps accurately, organically, and professionally as we continue to adapt to multiple sudden shifts and guidelines in the long-term? The answer here came through as “Why not all of the above, all in one place?” The result is remote services with intensive research and travel potential with both old-school networking capabilities and modern methods and resources for when the repetitive and easily traceable digital ones become tiring or concerning, or for when the fantastic digital ones have yet to show up for or around you.
Here, you are offered a well-informed and natural space to work under custom contracts created to fit your individual business and creative needs, as well as a space always seeking to grow and help those who are a good fit. Not only am I professional and curious about what you do, what you like about it and what you wish to be shared through your brand and business, I am also looking to help both businesses and creative individuals receive quality and genuine advice and potentials for their own careers, goods, merchandise, and storefronts. With my personal informed expat focus informed by true individual, regional, and local authority and talents within such an incredible range of networks all over, and as incredible and unique networks in and of themselves, I offer private bookable services to those who qualify throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand or to those with localization and supportive remote needs and adjustments for U.S. clients while digital tools, content, classes, and workshops are able and intended to serve the wider professional network in other fitting locations as well. For other countries and cultures who can provide reverse-localization expertise and design, creative, or historical advising and checks, do reach out here. A rarer level of accuracy, flexibility, and contextual awareness is the starting point of anything I will ever advise you on or seek, without straying from your most local and home-based intentions, specialties, crafts, warmth, or welcome. For those interested in the ‘we’ element, visit the Opportunities page.
HOW WE STARTED
After completing graduate school in Paris, France with my creative perspective at the perfect precipice, it was only a matter of timing and building the space for everything I have intended creativity and career-wise to guide, reveal, and re-enforce with on a larger scale. After traveling and moving around with this knowledge followed by the COVID-19 pandemic continually putting other long-term private projects on hold, everything still smoothed out into a company based on my experience with, natural perspective on, understanding of, and interest in local and international branding, marketing, global communications, cross-cultural advising, and more focus around PR as its own niche in the summer of 2022. The foundational skills for The Creative Press Company (formerly called ‘a.h. creative press’) began with decades of personal creative downtime and investment in foreign language learning, translation, interpreting, cross-cultural advising, tutoring, and teaching verification. This easily incorporates general travels, general and local and global communications, production process analysis, general academia, food and drink, entertainment, and design which are both personal and professional varied choices and interests, and why I enjoy this company as the specific and active outlet for day-to-day relevancy and impact it is. As a native Virginian with northeastern ties born and raised in Virginia’s northern metropolitan region, I am naturally part of a network privy to nearly every perspective and awareness possible and a heritage of consistency, finding solutions and maintaining them. Such an advantage can only continue to expand and support the wide array of specialties, systems, and proud standards working together consistently in a multitude of locations at once for so long both within and outside of Virginia, which is also a high-commerce and trading location and heritage. For now, the company is splitting time between Virginia and New York City with plans to return to Paris soon after.
On an individual level, as a visual, creative, and communicative person, the services on offer here came to the forefront as an intriguing match for my personal and multi-lingual sphere as the exclusive immersive opportunities that I have had with some powerhouse brands internationally and the more administrative, research, and project management levels, roles I have held in the past were intentionally temporary yet highly valuable experiences intended to further refine my instinct as someone who knew I would always be not only my own boss, but also a self-made boss and person in charge of everything in my safe-kept and privately built career path and intentionally held these various roles to fully understand, appreciate and properly communicate with all roles involved in nearly any standard professional setting or network — in both creative fields and business — as I continued to move towards a career varied but structured enough to meet my personal motivation, goals, needs and talents with room to enjoy and expand my natural influence and perspective and thus general fulfillment, which includes seeing results for you as clients, as well!
REMOTE SERVICES & DIGITAL PRODUCTS
As a North American company offering remote services only, travel and research are still a major potential and element of select services and requests as long as conditions are following all proper safety, security, and post-pandemic guidelines. Please do not hesitate to inquire about what is currently possible, even if it will have to be customized and monitored further for the foreseeable future as I am still happy to come up with a plan and alternatives for you (see the client guide for more). You are welcome to contact me at any time regardless of my location or time zone. As both a city and nature-lover, I am ready for it all. Stay tuned through my portfolio and social media for more samples of themes and subject matter that easily work here, though they are surely not the only talent, skillset, or nuance welcome, mastered or understood, within reason. As I am assembling, assessing and arranging deliverables on behalf of you and your business, I sincerely hope you take full advantage of this genuine, flexible, and engaged environment in such a vast, varied and occasionally over-saturated modern world and time.
FOR OTHER BUSINESSES & TRADES
No matter where I am or where you are, this type of company exists because of you as business owners, creatives, and motivated individuals in need of the services on offer which are as simple, direct, and down-to-earth as they need to be or are requested to be, especially in more regional and focused areas and industries. The opportunities page is where you can let me know what you have to offer through open calls for willing regional and niche industry representatives if you also appreciate the balance between necessity for local and cultural know-how and tradition alongside natural matches and those who appreciate and acknowledge you and your communities, services, products, and other offers as well. Otherwise, for those seeking to book services, please use the contact page or booking form after browsing the client guide.
Last updated: Sunday, September 29, 2024 at 03h13, EST
About the Founder, Owner & Creative Director
If I am not in Paris, France, I am somewhere along my native East Coast or learning something new or continuing with something elsewhere before heading right back to Paris. With a BA in French Studies (‘14) completed in Boston, Massachusetts with placement in majority Master’s-level graduate classes and an MA in Global Communications (G’18) attended and completed in Paris, France (arrived Winter 2015, defended thesis Summer of 2018), rounded out by formal studies and a natural interest in foreign languages in general, multimedia and design projects, art history, multi-sensory works and spaces, and general sociology and analytics, I prefer to immerse myself in the regions, cultures, languages, and businesses that draw my attention most under the guidance of those in charge of them and those equally happy to have me. Having also learned and studied in multiple languages and cultures rather than just about them on multiple continents as parts of both of my own plans and completed degrees, my planned and much anticipated uninterrupted years living in France as natural match and overlap have always been at the core of my outlook and lifelong travel there prior to an official move long ago which has given me an even greater perspective while also getting to still hop around the gems of elsewhere.
On a more personal level, I specialize in both niche and multi-cultural semiotic analysis, color analysis, film and literature analysis, French-English translation and interpretation, have a knack for advertising elements and researching general cultural and communications timelines, shifts, and perspectives in addition to discussing or exploring any of these in both the French language, cultural, and historical contexts as well as the unique Franco-American allyship ones, with important rare personal (and thus, private) links and experience being a proud alignment and factor around these choices, even prior to that knowledge. For those of you with similar interests and investments and other new, important and interesting experience that you’d like to share, propose, or discuss creatively or in business, do feel free to introduce yourself here and request my full personal CV and portfolio which includes academic articles, personal essays, textbooks, books, multimedia and niche visual collections and artwork expanding on everything mentioned here and everything in the context of Franco-American relations and dynamics. This all stems from my completely unique perspective which you can read more about here.
See you there! / À bientôt!
Alexis Hicks
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