Creative Direction and Design
Nicholas Schmidt is a creative director, designer, and strategist. He conceptualizes precise forms, spaces, and narratives reduced to their most simple and timeless expressions.
He collaborates with an ever-growing network of art directors, strategists, stylists, researchers, interior designers, graphic designers, producers, UI/UX specialists, architects, writers, academics, and photographers to deliver value-driven solutions to complex aesthetic and cultural challenges for institutions, enterprises, and private clients. Nicholas holds a BFA in Art History, Theory, and Criticism from Concordia University, Montréal, where his research focused on minimalism’s redefinition of space and its transformation of the viewer’s relation to the art object.
He is currently working with his network to establish a full-service creative advisory firm serving private clients and established institutions in art, luxury, and financial sectors.
Services
Creative Direction
Branding & Identity Design
Strategy Development
Art Direction
Spatial & Experiential Design
Project Managment
Research & Analysis
Previous Work
Asics
Apt. 200
AWGE (A$AP Rocky)
Basic.Space
catalog:three
Cathcart
Clarks
Double’s Late Night
Edition Hotels
END.
Four Seasons
Garage
Helmut Lang
Holt Renfrew
Mural Festival
ONDO
Red Bull
Retrosuperfuture
Saintwoods
Selfridges
Sporty & Rich
SSENSE
The Webster
Throwing Fits
Tik Tok
Veuve Clicquot
Credits
My work would not be what it is without the significant influences of Donald Judd, Sir Alex Ferguson, Rosalind Krauss, The West Wing, Richard Prince, Light Years by James Salter, Catullus, Henri Lefebvre, John Pawson, Walter Benjamin, Peter Markli, Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger, Arthur Russell, the Sculpture Collection at Western Washington University, Helmut Lang, Frederic Jameson, Brice Marden, The Swimmer (1968) by Frank Perry, Westmount, Richard Serra, The Official Preppy Handbook, Hal Foster, Jacques Herzog, Ernest Hemingway, Mies van der Rohe, Cy Twombly, Dan Flavin, Whit Stillman, The New Left Review, and many others.
Contact
Nicholas Schmidt
nicholas@nicholaschmidt.com
+1 208 818 6766