Nicole, or just Nico
Born in Canada - Toronto in October 1992, and raised in Portugual in a town called Bombarral. From a very young age I remember being curios about art, specifically architecture and music. Glimpses of my childhood are a mix of paint, cuadricular paper drawings, wood inventions, sculptures with natural clay right from the red soils of the coast line, making crafts at my grandmas house with textiles and a never ending soundtrack of mumbled melodies and songs. Always tidy and organized with my objects, my bedroom looked like a sanctuary for art, shape, color and my plate was never as messy as in this picture.
In high school I studied 3D & Digital Design, and later on I moved to Lisbon to study Design at IADE-U. The last semester of this degree I moved to Austria under an academic exchange at FHV - Dornbirn. After graduating, I was curious about Canada so I decided to move back to try a creative career in Toronto. I worked for a couple small design agencies, and most lately in the role of Graphic Communicator at IKEA CA.
For the past years I decided to leave the corporate environment and pursue art and other dreams at my own pace, working slower and more meaningfully between design, visual arts and music. I opened a small studio space right in the heart of the city of St. John's, it's called "N Design Studio" – the ever-changing space that mutates from co-working to creative and to pop-up event space. This city has become home since 2020, where I live with my partner and little son.
I am always down for a chat, get in touch!