full portfolio on request.
Skills
— Strategic brand leadership
— Creative direction, art direction
— Team leadership
— Developing brand systems aligned to business and brand strategy
— Leading AI tool adoption across the creative team (ChatGPT, Claude, Midjourney, Runway, Firefly)
— Experiential design / spatial planning
— Place branding
— Workshop contribution
— Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, Keynote
LANGUAGES
German — Native
English — Fluent
French — Basic
Curriculum Vitae
/ 2017 — 2026
Associate Creative Director at Wordsearch
Associate Creative Director
2022 — Present
Design Director
2020 — 2022
Member of Management Team
2020 — Present
Member of Global Creative Leadership Team
2020 — Present
Senior Designer
2017 — 2020
Lead creative for international property and real estate clients including British Land, The Crown Estate, Related Argent, Hines, Tishman Speyer, CBRE, Westfield, Brent Cross Town, Native Land, Mount Anvil, JBG Smith, Diriyah Company and Dar Wa Emaar. Currently one of the agency leads for the AI integration programme. Direct teams of up to seven across branding, campaigns with digital crossover.
/ 2011 — 2018
Worked with Wolff Olins, Frank Bright & Abel, Rufus Leonard, Salterbaxter, Gilmar Wendt & Co, Bostock & Pollitt, Goosebumps, Home Association and JohnstonWorks. Specialised in brand work for regulated sectors and corporate and sustainability reporting. Clients included Google, Bank of Scotland, Lloyds Bank, Halifax, Bupa, London Stock Exchange, H&M, FTSE Russell, Nesta, Orange, Bacardi, British Safety Council and CIPD.
/ 2007 — 2011
Employed at SAS London
www.sasdesign.co.uk
Designer specialising in corporate reporting, branding and sustainability communications. Clients included Coca-Cola, Sainsbury’s, Freshfields, Osborne Clarke, BDO, Rentokil Initial and Logica.
/ 2006 — 2007
MA at University of Applied Science Potsdam
(Guide about ecological printing techniques)
/ 2000 — 2006
Studies at University of Applied Science Potsdam
/ March — October 2006
Internship at SAS London
/ 2003 — 2006
Echtzeit magazine
/ June — December 2004
Internship at Artificial Image
(Fine art print and colour management)
www.artificiality.com
/ Since 2002
Various freelance projects
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Awards
/ For Sainsbury's Graduate recruitment campaign
2009 Sainsbury's Graduate recruitment campaign
2009 Winner of AGR | International Recruitment Communications
/ For Home Retail Group
2008 CorpComms Awards – Home Retail Group:
Shortlisted for Best Annual Report
/ For »echtzeit 04«
2007 nominee for the Design Award of the Federal Republic of Germany
2006 iF Communication Design
2006 output Award
2006 Art Directors Club Germany
/ For »echtzeit 02«
2003 Red Dot Award
Featured in
/ For Longitude Prize
Design Week — May 2014
Design Week
/ For British Safety Council rebrand
Design Week — May 2013
Design Week
It’s Nice That — May 2013
It's Nice That
/ For Havelblüten (money design)
Novum [World of graphic design]
07/2008
/ For KBC Peel Hunt illustrations
Design Week [under Benchmark awards]
11/2007
/ For My Master: Die Zerreißprobe [The torn]
PAGE [Magazine for digital design and media production]
02/2006