Marlon Tate

Nikos is a Greek-British art director and writer, best known for creating narrative-driven work by combining fiction and surrealist storytelling.

In 2020, he branded Greece’s first coliving brand as an imaginary country; in 2021 he launched East London’s biggest urban regeneration project as a festival of electronic music and in 2022, he launched Marlon Tate; an advertising agency with offices in Athens, London, Jupiter and Mars (the last two offices are fictional).

Often described as ‘‘popstar art director’’ due to his notable music career and heavily publicised projects, he came to international attention in 2019 when he collaborated with famous photographer Polly Brown on a trilogy of surrealistic projects called ‘Time travel branding’. The first chapter of the trilogy was about the Xenia Hotels and premiered at the prestigious ATypI in New York to positive reviews from critics and press who praised Nikos’ ‘fictitious but brilliant’ universe. As of 2022, Nikos is represented by the talent agency ‘All American Speakers’ along with Jessica Walsh and Brian Collins. Nikos is also a Lecturer at famed art school London College of Communication, where he teaches a three-week studio called Essential Building Blocks. His Company’s work, has been featured in publications such as Vogue, and It’s Nice That and he has been lecturing internationally about blurring the boundaries between graphics and fiction.

In 2024, Nikos was nominated for inclusion in the Forbes 30 under 30 prestigious list. He has received various accolades including one Red Dot Design Award, 5 Ermis Awards, 9 Ebge Awards and a nomination for the prestigious Alan Davidson Award for Storytelling in London. Before Marlon Tate, Nikos spent a decade in London working as an art director for Frieze Art Fair, Fashion Space Gallery among other Institutions. He studied at Vakalo College of Arts (BA Hons, MA) and at Camberwell College of Arts (MA) in London, conducting practice-based research exploring the relation between Identity & Archives.