Nadine Werner did her apprenticeship in bookbinding in Hamburg with further education as a handicraft designer at the Craft Academy for Design in Kassel. 
 

After working with various bookbinders in New Zealand she opened her own workshop in 2005 as a free-lance book and paper designer. 
 

In 2007, she began working for Canadian publishers Hartley & Marks as a product designer. 

She was developing as one of the driving forces the notebook series "paper-oh".
 

She took several courses at the Centro del Bel Libro and after winning the Bel Libro Award in 2009 she began teaching.
 

Her fields of expertise are adhesive-free binding book constructions and magnetic closures.