Michael Nieling Email & Phone Number

Michael Nieling is a designer, educator, father, and full time spaz. He is the Creative Director at Ocupop, as well as being involved in multiple impact-driven companies and also teaches logo design. Splitting time between studios in Hawaii, British Columbia, and Wisconsin, if he's not on an airplane, he's likely somewhere shouting about design.Michael has been helping to define the visual language of the web for over a decade. As Creative Director and founder of Ocupop, he has led design projects for technology companies at all ends of the spectrum - from Google, Facebook, Mozilla, and the W3C to countless successful (and horribly failed) startups, Michael has directed a small, super-powered teams in creating some of the most influential logos, icons, campaigns and user interfaces of the past two decades.More about Ocupop:We are, simply speaking, a small shop, with all of the benefits and pit-falls therein. You see what you get - good people, good work.Regardless, if you are looking for switchboards, hold music, synergy, ideation, and enough buzz-words to fill a conference room, we’re probably not the ONE. But, if you love what you do and are proud of your company and the positive impact it makes in the world, chances are we might fit right in. We thrive on relationships of mutual respect, commitment and enjoyment – with our clients, our collaborators and each other; for nearly twenty years, we have left a wake of satisfied collaborators and quality work in our path. So drop us a line, because we’re Ocupop, and that’s two O’s, two P’s and YOU! …see that is the sort of shit we’re talking about, brilliant!Specialties:

Listed skills include Logo Design, Marketing, Art Direction, Graphic Design, and 12 others.

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  Owner, Creative Director

  Ocupop, Inc.

  2000 - Present

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  University Of Wisconsin-Madison

  Product Design [Mechanical Engineering]