About FRANK

FRANK began in Berlin in 2021 as a creative project founded by Nida Temaj and Anh Dinh. What started as a streetwear label using design to open conversations around mental health gradually developed into something broader.

After a period of pause and reflection, Nida reimagined FRANK in 2025 as a non-profit initiative focused on mental health, education and culture.

The medium changed, but the original question remained: How can we make conversations about mental health more open, accessible and part of everyday life?

Today, FRANK explores that question through public events, workshops, editorial projects and collaborations across psychology, art, culture and lived experience.

We bring together different perspectives rather than presenting mental health through a single lens.

Our Journal publishes research-informed articles and personal perspectives on subjects ranging from migration and belonging to gender, creativity, relationships and emotional life.

Our events translate these conversations into physical spaces. We work with psychologists, researchers, writers, artists, facilitators and other practitioners to create talks, workshops and participatory formats in Berlin.

FRANK is intentionally collaborative.

Rather than operating as a traditional organisation with a large permanent team, projects are developed together with a changing network of contributors, facilitators, writers, speakers, cultural spaces and partner organisations.

This allows different forms of knowledge to meet: academic research alongside lived experience, psychological perspectives alongside artistic practice, and structured conversation alongside experimentation.