I'm Carlos Nieto Visual Designer, Graffiti Artist & Illustrator. 20+ years creating content for print, web, apparel, digital, ads...

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Superpowers

  • Graphic Designer
  • Web Developer
  • Illustrator
  • Graffiti Artist
  • UI/UX Designer
  • Livery Designer

Main interests

  • Apparel print
  • Digital Art
  • Development
  • Graffiti
  • Vinyl decor
  • NFTs
  • VTUBING

I began to draw at school and since then I feel a fascination for shapes and colours. Later in stone age I study computer programming with those days one colour monitors. The last year came Windows with Paint, the mouse... so I saw the light. My parents bought a 486 computer and I started to play with software about design, animation, music, games... I become a Freelance even before I decided to study Graphic Design. I worked for an Advertising Agency 4 years and when Internet began I learned HTML and Web design by my own and jump to .com companies where I became a Multimedia Designer, working with video, sound, animation, many tech.I´m mostly self-taught, and lucky enough to work in the fields I was interested, improving daily with real works.So after some years of hard working I have teach Graphic Design, Photoshop, Web Design, Flash, Javascript, PHP Programming.I also worked many years in Cartoon TV series, Merchandising, Licensing, Online Marketing, Videogames, custom Wall decals. I became Creative Director, Webmaster, Web Programmer, Artist, Teacher of Professional Websites Master Course...Lately what I enjoy more are Apparel print design and Graffiti Art.But I´m always learning, improving, so I accept new challenges.

I specialize in a modern aesthetic approach that often involves a distinct sense of play, using street Art inspiration and think out of the box. I feel happy when some of my customers talk about my work as dope or sick! Same when Working with beauty and elegance to create strong, lasting and remarkable designs, or cute stuff for kids. No matter if is for big companies or startups.

Leisure Time

I’m fueled by Music, Martial Arts, Surf, Movies, Drawings & sketchings, Internet, Comics, Other cultures, Ancient History….

I spend a lot of time drawing and painting, designing characters or concepts. I also make street Art. Sometimes people congratulate me, sometimes they delete it. So I can paint again there 😉

Apart of that, I have been playing different Sports and Martial arts. Starting when kid with Soccer and Karate, after Taekwondo (contestant), Kick-Boxing, Kempo Kai and my favorite: Muay-Thai. Also mountain bike, bodysurf and bodyboard. I love to ride my bike on the beach avoiding the waves, play fronton (kinda outdoor racketball), soccer, voley…

Other love that I have, is music. I played bass for a few years in a hard rock band, but I think next time with free time, I will compose music with computer because the possibilities are huge.

About music my favorites are 70´s Rock bands, like Slade, Pink Floyd, Sweet, Aerosmith, Led Zeppelin… But also love Iggy Pop, The Cult, ACDC, Suzi Quatro, Boston, Kiss, Judas Priest, Uriah Heep, Deep Purple, Van Halen, Zucchero, White Stripes, Rammstein, Ozzy Osbourne, Running Wild, Nightwish, H.I.M, Jane´s Adiction, The Clash, Peter Gabriel, Pearl Jam, Aphrodite´s Child,…
There is a cavity in my heart for Electronic, Folk and Classical music. Bands like Erasure, Joachim Witt, The Chieftains, Youssou N´dour, Xabier Rudd… the list is endless. In Folk besides of Irish and Flamenco (Camaron) I like specially, greek music (Elefteria Arvanitaki and Kristi Stassinopoulou), and East Europe Folk Music, like Goran Gregovic.

Do I dance? Yes, I like Salsa from Puerto Rico, Colombia, Cuba… and also Brasilian music.

About travels, I have been in East Asia (Thailand), Europe (Spain obviously, France, England, Ireland, Croatia…), and Africa (Senegal, Gambia). Also in Peru.

I don´t smoke and I like choppers, hot roads and retro cars. I like cooking and watch movies.