Derek Marckel - Football Coach - University of Colorado Athletics

Delaware

Sep 6 (Sat)

1:30 PM

Derek Marckel

Title:
Director of Football Art Design
Email:
derek.marckel@colorado.edu

Derek Marckel is in his first year in his second stint for the University of Colorado football program, as he returned in February 2022 as the senior art director and graphic artist.

Marckel, 29, was hired as CU’s graphic designer for football on April 8, 2019 under former head coach Mel Tucker, and joined him at Michigan State when Tucker left after the 2019 season. He spent two years supervising the Spartans’ creative team that produced original graphics and recruiting. Simultaneously, he signed on as the freelance graphic artist for USA Water Polo, assisting in the rebranding of the organization’s visual identity and created social media content for the men’s and women’s teams for the 2020 Summer Olympics.

He joined the CU staff from the University of Toledo, where he was the assistant director of creative services for nearly three years (2016-19; since he graduated college). He worked with all 15 varsity sports for the Rockets and was responsible for creating everything from billboards, posters, program covers, ticket designs and schedule cards to graphics for social media, the web and videoboards. He won several awards for his work for the athletic department. He had previously completed a graphic design internship for Toledo’s athletic marketing department in 2014, during the summer before his junior year in college.

Marckel graduated from Bowling Green State University in 2016 with a bachelor’s degree in Technology & Visual Communication Technology.

His first job in the design field was right out of high school when he was just 18, working as a production artist intern at Haas-Jordan Umbrellas in Toledo. He joined the company as its full-time head graphic artist shortly thereafter and held that position until he graduated from BGSU.

He was born April 27, 1993 in Toledo, Ohio, and graduated from Whiteford High School in Ottawa Lake, Mich., where he lettered in football (team captain) and baseball. His hobbies include drawing; as a kid, he used to draw pictures of Toledo Rocket football players and give those to them after each home game); he is also an accomplished sports photographer.