Services

Branding & Conception
Type Design & Editorial
Film & Motion Design
Illustration & Editing
Print & Webdesign

Frederik

Merkel

Vita

DEZ 1996
JUN 2015
JUN – AUG 2015
SEP – OCT 2015
NOV – DEZ 2015
JAN – APR 2016
SEP 2016
MAY 2017
OCT 2017
NOV 2017
NOV 2017
DEZ 2017
FEB 2018
JAN 2019
FEB 2019
MAR 2019
FEB – JUL 2019
JAN – MAY 2020
JUL 2020
OCT 2020
APR 2021
JAN 2022
FEB 2022
MAR 2022
JUN 2022
JAN 2023
APR 2023
APR 2023
MAY 2023
JUL 2023
JUL 2023
SEP 2023

Born in Mannheim
High school diploma
Internship | Director Pol Ponsarnau
Internship | Design Agency Hübner & Sturk
Internship | TV-Channel RNF
Internship | Engelhorn e-Commerce
Studies | Communication design B.A. | HSRM 
Lecturer | Illustrator HSRM | 3 semesters
Direction | Design freshman week | 4 semesters
Design self employment
First client: Upstairs Gin | 100.000 sold bottles
Working student | GIM Heidelberg | 5 semesters
Winner | HSRM Design Award 2018
Bronze | Gregor Kalender Award 2019
Grant award | HSRM Student engagement
Bronze | World Calender Award 2019 
Scholarship | Semester abroad in jordan
Working student | Innofabrik 
Graduation | Bachelor of Arts | 1,3 | HSRM
Studies | Gutenberg Intermedia M.A. | HS Mainz
Communications Lead at Volt Wiesbaden | 2 years
Feierabend Fraktur | Feature in Typodarium 2023
Graduation | Master of Arts | 1,7 | HS Mainz
Participation | Conceptem Founding Workshop
Junior Art Director | Scholz & Volkmer | 1 year
Wakama Feature in Typodarium 2024
Funding | Goethe Unibator Startup Program
Bronze | Goethe Startups for Future SDG Award 2023
Winner | H-Ventures Startup Program 2023
Funding | Hessian-AI Startup Program
Co-Founder | PHONT
Nomination | UX Design Award 2023

Expertise

Conception
Exhibitions
Web
Film
Photography
Animation
Illustration
Typography
Editorial
Self Evaluation
Element 8

Photoshop

Element 10

Illustrator

Element 9

After Effects

Element 6

Premiere

Element 7

InDesign

Element 3

Adobe Xd

Element 5

Glyphs

Blender

Element 2

Wordpress

Element 1

SketchBook