"Alex Curtis is a freelance illustrator and designer. She runs the Cambridge based independent design company thr33designs. She studied special effects in make up at London University of Arts and is actively involved in the Cambridge music scene, promoting numerous gigs and providing eye-catching illustrations for fliers, posters and CD covers; as such the majority of her work is music related.

Alex has been involved in illustrating artwork for band interviews for Last Hours zine. Through using the evocative imagery that the band names suggest Alex produced artwork to accompany an interview with The Plot to Blow Up the Eiffel Tower which appeared in Last Hours ..12 whereby she took an interesting twist on the words, showing a boy blowing up an image of the Eiffel tower within a balloon. Adopting a similar style Alex's image to accompany an interview with This Bike is a Pipe Bomb will appear in the forthcoming Last Hours ..13. Alex's work also featured in issue 4 of the zine Failed Rock Star, illustrating Alex's layered, textured slightly disturbing yet girlish style. " zine symposium 2006