Niko Willborn, 28

years in business (what kept me here read below)

At first, sorry for the bad responsive design. Adobe Portfolio is by far the worst website builder ever. In mobile version it just cuts off pictures without an offer to adjust them. And the button shouId be inside the frame 😖. I will move this site to webflow or unbounce soon.
Ok, back to me – so below you can see some lines about my great cv over the past 28 years. It all started in 1997...
...as intern doing big mainstream stuff in a big mainstream Reklame-Factory at Grey Düsseldorf, followed by a creative upgrade at DDB, where I joined the notorious Sony team, then went with the same people to Wensauer & Partner DUS, changed the city to S&F Berlin, travelled around the world incl. shooting locations like Tahiti with Mackat, freelanced a lot for McCann and ressourcenmangel, then perm again at Römer Wildberger and the BVG boutique Strobinski. Now a free bird again producing ideas and executions for an Anti Nazi Secco.
nature: finnish/german (with a touch of saarlandian and dutch through a pleasant stay at HBK Saar and HBK Maastricht) 
some clients: Adler Mode, AOK, B&B Hotels, BaWü, Berliner Zeitung, BMEL, BSR, BWBank, BVG, Emmi, GASAG, Glashütte Original, hessnatur, Hochschule Offenburg, Mercedes Benz, rebuy, Morgenpost, Märkische Allgemeine, Opel, Pulmoll, Sony, Spielbank Berlin, SOS Kinderdörfer, TU Freiberg, visitBerlin, VW, Würth
influenced by: family, cats, radioeins, Judith Scheytt, Haaretz, Studio Dumbar, Rene Redzepi, things happening on Neukölln streets, Kesselskramers
skills: creative cloud apps, producing and executing campaign ideas, looks, layouts, prepress, motion, headlining, no coding tools like webflow
Ki? yes, use it and may your prompt-words be well chosen! Otherwise you are lost in an artificial hell with 11 finger people and Jehovah's witnesses skies.
likes to do: cooking, family-time, gardening, food&wine, commensality, dj-ing, carpentry, repairing things
awards: yes, some, but to be honest, I don`t put too much weight in this. I think it`s much more important to perform well in the usual Tagesgeschäft. So one of these trophies could say "Cannes Gold for compressing a ton heavy keynote PDF, so the client can see it on his yacht."
kids: YES! (with superb Capoeira, math and tiktok dance skills)
social media trends: I got a secret direct channel to actual and upcoming flows. My daughters distract me with newest hot shit, when they are actually supposed to turn their mobiles off. 
age: please don`t ask. (actually too old for this here, but still having fun – and don`t worry, my kids support me with eternal youth power 🦄)
ability to teamwork: I think so. Please contact my recent 241 colleagues I loved working with. You could start with Marc Flood, Perrin Saylan, Andy Wyeth, Gerald Meilicke, Harald Heinen, Esther Schwarz, Bas Böttcher, Julia Schmidt, Matthias Schmidt, Seniya Uysal, Joakim Jonason, Sebastian Steller, Linda Kochem, Robert Krause, Otto deVries, Kathrin Seupel, Felix Heine, Martin Pross, Birgit van de Valentyn, Peter Quester, Minh Khai Doan, Heidy Castillo, Alf Frommer, Josephine Hempel, Florian Schäfer and many more great people 
burn-out`s: I guess zero so far ... biohack: cooking (see here), release stress in soil, postpunk, cats and doing many things besides advertising.
why is this website in english? Berlin becomes more and more international, so that should be fine.
contact: Neukölln, nwillborn(at)gmx.de 0179 590 17 95

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