Marcel Buerkle is a senior designer and has been active in the packaging design industry for about 6 and a half years, working predominantly for renowned Companies such as Mars Inc., Tiger Brands, Nampak, Nestlé and many other reputable brands.

Prior to designated agency work Marcel developed designs and pre-print production under his own independent LightHouse Studio brand for several years. He has extensive experience in the print-media field: annual reports, branding, product photography, magazines & tabloid newspapers, packaging design and point-of-sale.

Marcel's works have won several design awards and have been featured in many international publications:

- Oxford University: Crossmodal Research group (Prof. Charles Spence) (United Kingdom)
- Virginia Polytechnic: (Assist. Prof. Laszlo Horvath) (U.S.A)
- Design and Design Book of the Year Vol. 2 (Design & Design, France)
- Design and Design Book of the Year Vol. 4 (Design & Design, France)
- Boxed and Labeled (Gestalten, Germany)
- Pack your Life (Art Power, Hong Kong)
- Inspiración Vol. 3 (Wondering Publications China)

...as well as many other design-related books and magazines throughout Europe, U.S.A and Asia.

• AIGA Member
• My Tumblr page: { i n s p i r a r e }
• Mr. Cup
• Featured on Graphic-ExchanGE
• Published in: Design and Design Book of the Year Vol. 4
• Published in: Design and Design Book of the Year Vol. 2
• Published in: Boxed and Labelled - New Approaches to Packaging Design
• Published in: Pack Your Life
• Coroflot
• Flickr
• Society 6
• Lovely Package
• The Fat Pack Blog: South African packaging design blog
• The Dieline: Organic Honey
• The Dieline's Latest Top 10 Package Designs - July
• The Dieline's Recent Top 10 Package Designs - June
• The Dieline: Quick Fruit
• The Dieline: Half-an-orange packaging
• Design Offshoots
• Design and Design
• Packaging of the World
• Box Vox
• Packaging World
• Package Machine Blog
• Designers Couch
• African Digital Art - QF
• African Digital Art - OH
• Pilgrimways
• Creative Overflow
• 500px