DANIEL BALZER

CREATIVE DIRECTOR

Daniel’s strong passion and academic background in Cross-Channel Branding make him highly experienced in the re-branding of TV Channels and CI development for the past 16 years. Combining these skills with his strong technical and creative interest in video games/engines, Motion Design, VR and 3D software makes him an all-around weapon, taking the FLINK creative lead side-by-side with founder Niko Tziopanos.

Daniel spent three years in Sydney working for a variety of agencies and brands by the likes of The Lab (ABC re-branding / Tomorrow when the war began title sequence), Maud Creative (re-branding of Victoria BitterFosters Group), Heckler and Animal Logic. After leaving Sydney, he was working on the 2012 Olympic opening and Paralympic closing ceremony in London. During his three years there, he did a variety of channel re-branding projects for DixonBaxi such as Sony LATAM, Telmundo Networks, MTV Finland and UKTV's Drama channel.

Throughout that time, he remained true to his Hamburg-based company, Brand New Media, where he started working in 2000. He kept on diving into extensive design and re-branding work, in particular for ZDF and ZDF Info, as well as concept and design work for shows like Wetten, dass ..?, Heute Show and Kerner.