Interview with Nick Pitscheider, Independent Branding Consultant & Designer of Nick Pitscheider, ITA

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Nick Pitscheider

As an independent branding consultant and designer, Nick is also the Chief Designer and Brand Manager at Cedea Dolomites’ Luxury Mineral Water and Associate Creative Director at Maggipinto Agency.


Nick Pitscheider | Muse Awards

Interview with the 2019 Muse Design Awards Winner -Nick Pitscheider

1Please give us a brief bio of yourself, your company, job profile, etc.
After graduating with a First Class Honours Degree in Visual Communication in 1994, my career developed between London, Milan and Dubai, working for leading communication agencies and branding firms.

I am the author and co-author of some of the most popular international brands in Italy for rebranding. My book includes banking, furnishing, luxury goods, food, beverage and more. Expertise: Brand Creation, Branding Strategy, Corporate Design, Packaging Design, Type Design, Brand Advertising.
2Tell us a bit about your business and what you do.
Since I started my career at about 25 years ago, many things have changed in all the sides of this business. Today, you have to be versatile more than ever. I can work on a wide range of projects: from small business needs to big companies projects. Depending on what the task is, I decide how to manage it and who to involve in it. The goal is always to give the client the greatest quality to assure success.
3Congratulations! As the winner of the 2019 Muse Awards, what does it mean to you and your company and team to receive this award distinction?
This Award distinction Is highly important. There are two sides in todays’ market. On one side it’s widely populated by individuals that define themselves professionals, supplying design and creative services cheap, and low quality. I call them “cheap options”.

On the other side there are professionals and companies of actually good level. Competitions of global caliber are effective weapons to convince potential clients that there are effective reasons to choose you instead of others, but competitions and awards are also a way to highlight the immense gap between good professionals and cheap options. Eventually, winning awards pushes yourself to a higher rank, increasing the possibilities to hook clients of higher profile.
4Can you explain a bit about the winning work you entered into the 2019 Muse Awards, and why you chose to enter this project?
It’s a case a bit peculiar because I am personally involved in the Cedea water project. I am the designer and the Brand Manager of the company and the whole thing was (and is) definitely very challenging. I always wanted to exceed the highest possible level, not only because it’s a high premium mineral water, but also because I am part of it.

Winning awards on projects that represent you so importantly, is immensely more rewarding. It’s also a matter of pride, trust and personal image, beside business push.
5What was the biggest challenge with this project?
As already mentioned, being part of it, the point is that doing projects for yourself as designer is always ten times more challenging. It’s not a matter of convincing a client; it’s a matter of convincing yourself that your ideas, solutions, executions, are simply the best and definitely the way to go with. This is tough!
6How has winning an Award developed your practice/career?


Awards bring you fame, proving your high expertise levels to the clients that approach you. They find you also thanks to the awards you won. Winning an award always gives you visibility. The shame is that in the past I won Awards for the agencies I worked for, therefore the visibility was for them. But this is just how things are, this is normal.
7What are your top three (3) favorite things about our industry?
The diversity of work, the challenge with yourself in the constant search of improvement, and the fun in working with friends and colleagues that share your vision and will of making things better.
8What makes your country specifically, unique in the creative industry?
The will to inject emotion into projects.
9Where do you see the evolution of creative industry going over the next 5-10 years?
The creative industry is heavily influenced by the new digital world and media. Difficult to say what’s going to happen. However, the technical side making the technological structure of a product will always need a creative side to be able to be make it appealing to humans. Technology is not appealing if not designed in an enjoyable way. The more technology humans will have, the more they will need proper creative designers to make it feasible.
10If you were a student entering this industry or an aspiring Muse Award submitter, what advice would you give them?
Run full speed and enjoy!

The thing with youngsters or students is that they don’t have know-how on the real limits in production. But this can also become a great spark to develop new and improved production solutions.
11What resources would you recommend to someone who wants to improve their skills in the creative industry?
I would recommend to develop the thinking skills in mixing different disciplines.
12What is your key to success? Any parting words of wisdom?
I do my best to fall in love with the project I present and represent. If I am able to convince myself that it’s actually great, I will be able to make the client believe in it too.


Winning Entries

Cedea - Dolomites' luxury mineral water | 2019

Cedea – Dolomites’ luxury mineral water | Nick Pitscheider | Muse Awards
The packaging design for the Cedea luxury mineral water (the only mineral water from the heart of the Dolomites, in the very north of Italy) is inspired by the Ladin Dolomites and the legends and myths revolving around their natural light phenomenon called Enrosadira... (read more)

Nick Pitscheider


As an independent branding consultant and designer, Nick is also the Chief Designer and Brand Manager at Cedea Dolomites’ Luxury Mineral Water and Associate Creative Director at Maggipinto Agency.


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