studied design at the University of Mainz. Niko worked as a freelance graphic designer with a focus on communication in the finance sector, and then at Strichpunkt and for the Pater Schmidt Group as Corporate Designer. He then went on to study "CAS Font Design" at the Zurich School of Art. In 2011 he founded the Prinz Mayer design studio. He has been teaching Typographie at the Academy of Visual Arts, Frankfurt since 2016.