ABOUT

Nicole is a Texas-born, New York City–based graphic designer and creative director. Her practice blends analog and digital processes across creative marketing, full-scale brand development, digital content creation, social media strategy, creative direction, and independent projects such as film posters and zines. Rooted in visual storytelling, her work focuses on building compelling narratives through art and design.

Influenced by the aesthetics she grew up around, Nicole’s visual language weaves together Mexican Catholicism, Americana, digital spaces, and gothic horror. Her work explores the intersections of religion, the occult, internet subcultures, and girlhood, merging surrealism, fantasy, darkness, and beauty.

By drawing from traditional mythology and contemporary culture, she transforms personal and symbolic stories into modern explorations of identity, belief, and the surreal.




Education
University of Southern California


B.A. Art & Design (Roski School of Art & Design)
Minor in Cinema Studies (School of Cinematic Arts)



Employment Freelance
(8.22 - present)

WME
Basic.Space
Instagram
Nike Football
IMG Licensing
Migo Events
Primadonna Zine
Ghetto Rodeo
Persona
Hood Baby LA
Obscura Collective
Rizos Curls
New Orgen Media
Chegg



Endeavor / WME
Graphic Designer
(11.23 - 06.25)


Friends at Work
Junior Graphic Designer
(6.21 - 7.22)


Gen-Zine
Graphic Designer
(3.19 - 05.23)


COLOR THEORY 
Design Intern + Junior Designer 
(2.19 - 8.21)

Mary McCartney Photography Ltd. 
Studio Assistant
(winter term, 2020)




Current Obsessions






watching // amores perros

reading // martyr

listening // saranunholy










Last Updated 01.2026
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