Designer & Copywriter
In early 2017 Nicki left her hometown, London, for Barcelona, aged 23 having recently graduated from university and looking for an adventure. Seven and a half years later, Nicki has integrated herself into Mediterranean and Latin culture (she’s a 🧉 drinker!) and feels like Barcelona is home.
Nicki started her career in Public Relations, managing the PR for high-profile chefs across the United Kingdom. Nicki made a big career change in 2020, seeing her retrain as a Graphic/Digital Designer, and she began working for a fast-paced design agency in London. Here she worked on a range of exciting projects for several big-name clients, including Lincoln Financial, Elixirr Consulting, and Pace, working on everything from website and app design, UX research, annual reports, marketing collateral, and more. Nicki then made a sideways move into a dedicated UX Research position for a US-based tech company before deciding to take her range of experience and work for herself. Nicki currently works as a Digital Designer for clients across Europe.
Alongside her design work, Nicki has a pre-owned homeware brand, Nicki Sophia, where she sources unique, unusual and appealing homeware which she then sells to customers across Europe. She releases a number of collections across the course of the year, and once the pieces are gone, they are gone; they’re all one-off. Everything is pre-owned; some are vintage (20th Century), some are antique (pre-20th Century), and some are a bit newer (21st Century). You can check out this project at nickisophia.com and @nickisophia_.
Outside of work, Nicki loves sports (running, hiking with her dog, cross training, skiing, and tennis) trying new restaurants in Barcelona with friends and family, hunting for old homeware, and going to Palau Blaugrana to watch FC Barcelona basketball!
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