Nikki Prokop
Creative Director | Senior Brand Designer | Systems & Craft
Melbourne, Australia
Creative direction for brands that need more than a look.
I help organisations find the idea, build the system and carry it consistently across brand, campaign, digital, print, packaging and content.
Creative Director and senior brand designer with fourteen years' experience leading work across Australia and New Zealand.
- 14 yrsleading creative work
- 50+client accounts, AU & NZ
- >20khours in design tools
- 2xsmall humans, toughest critics
What I do
Where I can help
Brand strategy & identity
Find what the brand is really trying to say.
Positioning, naming, value proposition, visual and verbal identity, guidelines and narrative — find the thing a brand is really trying to say, then build the identity and language to carry it.
- Positioning & naming
- Visual & verbal identity
- Brand guidelines & narrative
Creative direction & campaigns
Lead the idea — then protect the standard.
Concept development, campaign direction, multi-channel rollout, stakeholder presentation and creative review. I lead the thinking, present it, and step back onto the tools when it counts.
- Concept & campaign direction
- Multi-channel rollout
- Creative review & quality control
Website, content & UI/UX
Make complex organisations easier to understand.
Website structure, content hierarchy, audience framing, user flow and interface direction — working where content, brand and design meet.
- Content hierarchy & audience framing
- UI/UX & interface direction
- Digital design
Design systems & operations
Protect quality when the work gets busy.
Brand guidelines, templates, request workflows, approval processes and repeatable systems — the infrastructure that keeps creative work consistent under scale, speed and stakeholders.
- Templates & design systems
- Request & approval workflows
- Brand governance
Packaging, print & production
The practical side of design, done right.
Label design, packaging, signage, posters, print collateral, production-ready files and supplier coordination — years across printers, signage suppliers and real production constraints.
- Packaging & label design
- Signage & print collateral
- Production-ready files
AI-enabled systems
AI that sharpens judgement — not replaces it.
Brand-trained GPTs, AI-assisted workflows, document automation and practical internal tools that cut production drag while keeping human taste at the centre.
- Brand-trained GPTs
- AI-assisted workflows
- Practical internal tools
Selected work
Noknok Studios
2012–PresentBuilding and evolving a founder-led creative studio across brand, systems, operations and client delivery.
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Securing Antarctica's Environmental Future
2025Helping a multi-partner Antarctic research programme make complex science clearer, more visible and more useful to the people who need to understand it.
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Wilderlands
2021–2022From an accurate name to a brand people could understand, remember and care about.
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CLM
2012–2015Building a high-volume creative system for 20 to 30 facilities across New Zealand.
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Mountain Valley Honey
2019–2026Refining a family-run honey brand across packaging, web and ongoing marketing.
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Magicians Touring Theatre Show
2017Creative direction and campaign delivery for a premium touring theatre production.
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My Toolkit
30 years of learning new tools.
Open to the right opportunity
Available for Creative Director, Head of Creative and senior brand & design leadership roles — in-house, studio or agency.