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Gernot Preslmayer brings over two decades of branding, design and creative strategy expertise — spanning London, New York, Berlin, and Dublin. In 2014 he co-founded Proxy, a startup brand studio, and worked at Nokia, Landor and MetaDesign to name a few. 
 
Back in Vienna since 2020, he served as Head of Creative at Brainds for three years. A natural design and strategic thinker, Gernot thrives on challenging norms, simplifying complexity, and injecting some fun into the formal.

Now one half of DUO, he is also available for solo freelance projects and creative writing in English.

Experience × Full-time × Freelance

DUO

09/2024 VIE + World

Brainds 

Head of Creative

2020-2024 VIE

 

Virtue by VICE (now Kubrik)

Creative Director

2021 VIE + EUR

 

Mother Design

Creative Lead

2020 LON

 

The Howard Hughes Corporation

Creative Director

2020 NYC

 

Proxy

Co-Founder × Partner × Creative Director 

2014—2019 LON

 

Nokia

Creative Director, Brand Studio

2012—2014 LON

 

MetaDesign

Design Director

2010 BER

 

Wolff Olins × Landor × Studio Conran × Futurebrand × Greenspace × Ogilvy × Design Bridge and Partners × BBDO ×××

Mentions × Awards × Results

Published in Monocle and Creative Review 

 

Featured on Brand New, Visuelle, Identity Designed, TechCrunch, Visual Journal,

The Dieline and on swissinfo.ch—as

‘a great example of Swiss typography in use’

 

Red Dot Design Award

 

Two MUSE Creative Awards

 

Oura Ring, backed by Will Smith’s Dreamers fund, achieved $148m in funding 2023

 

8fit bought by Withings 2022

 

Argent raised $40m on its way to Web3 super app in 2022, and voted Hottest Blockchain Brand at The Europas Awards 2019

 

Peak acquired by Hachette Livre two years after establishing brand by Proxy

 

Fy! featured in iOS 11 launch screens and App Store ‘Best Apps’ 2017

Lecturing × Judging × Pro-bono

Workshops and lectures at New Design University, specialising in brand experience, system design, and strategy at New Design University (NDU), St. Pölten AT

 

Guest lecturer at School of Visual Arts’ Design Department (SVA), NYC

 

Judge at London Business School MA in Entrepreneurship programme pitch events

 

Mentor and brand adviser at New Entrepreneurs Foundation in the UK, coaching 70 young start-up founders

 

Judge at Centre for Entrepreneur’s NEF Live 2019 Young Entrepreneurs annual event

 

Guest lecturer and judge at London College of Communication (LCC)

 

Pro-bono brand consultant and designer for Triratna NY Buddhist Center, NY

Proud tenor @schmusechor, VIE

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