Frances Uckermann
Creative Director Focus @Hubert Burda Media
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WORK HISTORY
Creative Director Focus @Hubert Burda Media
Berlin, DE
EDUCATION
University of Kassel
Master of Arts (MA), Visuelle Kommunikation + Fine Arts
SKILLS
ABOUT FRANCES UCKERMANN
Frances Uckermann is an award-winning creative director who has worked in this role for major German media companies and the most important journalistic brands - like Spiegel, Stern or the Zeit-Verlag. Her experience includes leadership, human resources oversight and budget responsibility for over 50 employees as well as working on small creative projects, plus talent scouting and development, brand communication and media strategy both analog and digital. Her close connection with the best photographers, illustrators, editors, graphic designers and publishers offers great benefit to her clients. Frances Uckermann also shares her passion for design through lectures, teaching engagements and workshops. National and international juries include her in their panel, highly valuing her precise judgment and analytical abilities.After two and a half years as head of the Design Zentrum Hamburg, where she was responsible for strategy, program and operations, she was appointed as creative director of the weekly magazine Focus, at Burda, since March 1, 2023. She lives and works in Berlin and Hamburg.Frances Uckermann loves design in all its facets, from fashion to print, from digital communication to the idea of design as a sustainable tool for solving the great social and environmental challenges of our time. For her, the focus is always on design serving people and bringing clarity and beauty into the world.
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