Nikko Robledo is a Graphic Designer located in Oregon who aspires to become a teacher and graduated with a BA in Visual Communication and Design. Nikko had always excelled academically but would constantly get caught filling his notebooks with drawings. But his teachers would rarely reprimand him and would instead be encouraging which has given him a lifelong love for art and education.

The Marine Conservation Institute is an organization who works to preserve ocean ecosystems all over the world. This redesign campaign of the Marine Conservation Institute’s logo simplifies it to be more in line with modern logo design conventions without compromising the institute’s individuality. This brochure for the Marine Conservation Institute allows viewers to easily get more acquainted with the organization and what they do to protect our oceans. The pleasant visuals coupled with the clean and legible sans serif typeface ensure that the brochure is easily approachable yet still allows it to maintain an air of professionalism.

My main responsibility with Bench Craft is to design visual content for advertising campaigns across various physical mediums. I meet with clients to understand their advertising needs and goals and develop design concepts that align with their brand and messaging. I incorporate feedback and make revisions as necessary, and ensure that all designs meet industry standards and are optimized for various platforms and mediums. My role plays a critical part in helping companies and organizations effectively promote their products, services, or messages to their target audiences, from small, mom-and-pop shops to popular brands.

My Tee Spring designs offer minimalistic and clean aesthetics to reflect the brand's personality. I consider the practical aspects of graphic tee production during the design process. I carefully select suitable printing techniques, considering factors like color separation and garment material compatibility, to ensure the final product reflects the intended vision. This attention to detail and technical expertise ensures that my designs are not only visually striking but also translate seamlessly into high-quality printed tees.

This signage was created for Tualatin Hills Parks & Recreation to inform visitors via social media of the change in schedule for Labor Day. This design utilizes the red, white, and blue present on the American flag to evoke the festivites that one would commonly associate with Labor day. Through THPRD I made many similar signs for other holidays like the 4th of July, Halloween, and Christmas as well, all with variants to be used for either social media or for print design work like posters, banners, and A-frames to use in facilities.

The desert landscape and vibrant colors that are utilized in this album cover serve to generate the more laid-back vibe that one would associate with the summer season. The bold, white, stylized type on the cover stands out from the background and further clarifies the music that one should expect to hear when listening to this album.

Nicolai income insurance was in need of a clean and simple logo that wasn’t too busy and erred on the side of minimalism. The result was a versatile logo that could easily be implemented into business cards or the letterhead of important documents.

Another signage project that was created for Tualatin Hills Parks & Recreation to inform visitors via social media and in the form of physical displays about a Dia De Los Muertos event. This design incorporates the iconic calavera which is a recognizable cultural and artistic element of the Day of the Dead festivities that THPRD set out to celebrate. Since this would need to be used across several mediums, it was necessary for the design to be fairly malleable so that it could suit the various environments that the design would be found in. This design was created to celebrate the Mexican culture, and because of this it was paramount that the design was also inclusive to members of that community who may not speak English. To accommodate this demographic, I worked closely closely with a bilingual designer to provide everyone with the knowledge that they needed.

The slightly worn, golden design on this book immediately signals to the viewer that the contents of this book are rather dark in nature. The hands creeping upwards towards a crooked moon to form the odd shape of a skull in conjunction with the foreboding title generate a foreboding tone.

This poster serves as an advertisement for the PBS documentary, The Covid Contagion. The message that the coronavirus has been disproportionately affecting different racial groups is the main focus of the documentary and is clearly expressed within this poster. The gloomy and overall dark tone of the poster reinforces the ideas and themes expressed within the documentary.

This skull design incorporates bright pinks and purples that really allow it to pop and gives it a very energetic feel. The combination of bright colors mingling with a dark subject like a skull gives this design a bit of a punk or rebel feel which fits perfectly within the skate culture allowing it to work well as a deck or clothing design.

The surrealist imagery featured in this design lends itself well to be used as the cover for a magazine due to it being very bright and eye catching. The visual of three faces being put together onto a single head and having a black bar over their eyes to conceal their identity is a concept that works well with the topic of evaporation, which is a disturbing trend in Japan in which companies help people to completely vanish from their current lives and is exactly the type of story to be covered in this type of magazine.

The deep and saturated reds and oranges in this piece of glitch art coupled with the subject matter give it an almost dystopian quality. The lack of any light in the man’s eyes and the words prominently featured stating “You are (not) a human being” express the sentiment that many people feel in that it can often times feel as though companies or even their government do not see them as individual people but instead just a set of numbers.