1987 born and raised in Hamburg, Germany, Maurice grew up with a family background in craftsmanship, with his parents running a construction company grounded in a long-standing family history of masons, carpenters and painters. With this, Maurice came in touch with manifesting ideas and visions into physical existence at an early age, which became a major part of his identity and enhanced his visually sensitive personality.
The playful exploration of materials in his family’s warehouse during his childhood or on-site support of construction projects throughout his youth backed in a particular interest in various forms of self-expression and set the foundation of his multifaceted nature.
As a child from the 90s Maurice experienced both, the analog world with crafting by hand and early stage graphic software that provided him additional digital tools for executing thoughts into visuals. Curious within his teenage years he explored a diverse range of self-realization resulting in constantly seeking the new and unknown. At just 20 years old Maurice implemented first commercial graphic design projects based on his autodidact knowledge and started working independently as a creative in 2008. Accompanied by life becoming more serious it was about time to make a decision towards his career.
Maurice originally intended to study architecture due to his family heritage, but graduated in graphic design and communication in 2012. He felt design provided a broader perspective and a more flexible background for his professional future, backing his early interest in visual and applied arts. Alongside and after his studies, Maurice continued working as an independent art director and designer with clients, brands and agencies on both a local and global scale.
Over the years he established a design language known for a reduced, minimal yet bold and sometimes brutalist approach, with a strong focus on geometric rigour. Not limited by discipline, scale or context he applied modernist design principles to graphic, form and color.
From designing identities for companies, brands and products to spatial communication, furniture, fashion and live experiences, as well as creative directing his design studio NobleNorse from 2011 to 2018 with its eponymous retail concept store in Hamburg from 2016 to 2018. Maurice has realized countless self-initiated and collaborative projects at the intersections of art, design and architecture and contributed to internationally-awarded commercial work.
His output has been published in several on and offline publications such as The Huffington Post and The Vice Magazine, to name a few. As a result from the past decade and a half, Maurice developed an extensive expertise in the industry with a remarkable body of work in multidisciplinary design.
But as his career progressed he felt off-track with his personal work and was accompanied with dissatisfaction and even boredom in recent years. Throughout early 2022, Maurice took a break from his professional design career to reflect, reset and fundamentally change the status quo. He felt an urge to prioritize his artistic practice, calling back to his origin and identity from many years ago.
At the beginning of 2023, he decided to adjust and rebuild the foundation for his self-initiated work. As a result Maurice developed a new Hamburg-based atelier that officially opened in early 2024. The space is now dedicated to his ever-evolving, irrepressible mind and home to the joyful investigation of his inner child and artisan-driven practice.