West Elm establishing a solid digital brand

Gather Journal beautiful in print - beautiful in digital.

NARS Cosmetics agile digital partnership.

Garden & Gun re-imaging an iconic southern brand.

Martha Stewart from print to digital.

Sotheby's past, present, and future auctions.

Selected Works hand-selected works.

Brands I've Worked With

ABOUT ME
I’m Nate Mueller – designer, builder, and former partner at Studio Mercury.

At Studio Mercury, I produced comprehensive award winning brand identities, campaigns, and digital products that spanned multiple industries and platforms. As co-founder and director of digital at Studio Mercury, I oversaw the creation of digital identities, translation of brands throughout their digital projects, and manages all aspects of projects from start to finish between multiple stakeholders, designers, and development teams. I wrote, pitched, and presented proposals that allowed our studio to compete and win projects with $500k budges. I led both creative and development teams of between 5-15 people, all while working on multiple projects (usually between 8-12 concurrently). I’m a passionate leader with success in building, mobilizing, and developing cross-functional teams of strategists, designers, programmers, directors and photographers.

While pursuing my Masters at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), I developed a healthy skepticism of the role of technology in our lives. I believe the integration of technology should be purposeful and well thought out and I apply this ethos to my work.

Sometimes when I’m tired of looking at the screen, I’ll hand-print wallpaper or hack Nintendo cartridges. Working with my hands helps fuel my inner maker.

I currently live in San Francisco.