To celebrate our ADC Young Guns 9 call for entries, the ADC is interviewing 10 past winners about how they got to where they are today.

Our fifth video installment features Nicole Jacek, a German award-winning graphic designer (Red Dot, D&AD, International Design Award, Art Directors Club, Type Directors Club New York & Tokyo, etc.) and creative director at karlssonwilker inc. She has learned at the feet of the masters: Stefan Sagmeister, and Ian Anderson at the Designers Republic™ UK, and worked/works with brands such as Mercedes-Benz, Coca-Cola, 55DSL/Diesel, Harvard University, and Vitra, among many others.

Nicole’s work has been published in numerous magazines, newspapers and books, and she is winner of Print’s New Visual Artists 2009 & ADC Young Gun 8. Together with the boys from karlssonwilker she rocks 6th Avenue.

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Check out the other videos in the series, including interviews with Masashi Kawamura, Jessica Hische, Andrew Zuckerman and Michael Freimuth, all directed, filmed and edited by Brady Fontenot.