I’m a senior art director and multimedia artist from Rio de Janeiro based in Lisbon. I’m currently a creative lead at Rastro, an innovation agency that combines strategic thinking and creativity to enhance emotions and experiences between people, cultures and businesses.

For the past eight years, I've been active in the marketing and design industry, working with global brands like Bombay Sapphire, Heineken, Sony Music, Warner Music, Visit.Rio, Rider and many more, creating high quality graphic and motion content for digital and printed media.

From 2015 to 2020, I worked as a graphic and motion designer at Queremos!, one of the most innovative music platforms in Brazil. I’ve been responsible for rebranding the company, creating a new sub-brand for the music festival, taking care of the social media posts, designing the new website and a lot more. I also have experience in live video performances, working as a VJ and motion designer for João Brasil, a well known music producer and DJ that mixes different Brazilian music styles in his sets. Together we performed in major festivals like Rock in Rio and Prêmio Multishow.

I've graduated from ESDI-UERJ, Brazil's first ever design school. I had the opportunity to learn not only the fundamentals of graphic and product design, but also some new fields of study like projection mapping and design thinking. I studied abroad in 2014 at the HKDM in Freiburg, Germany, as an exchange student in the fields of new media design and visual arts.


Nickolas Borba
©MMXXIIII from Rio, based in Lisbon