ABOUT

Nina Ricardo

Nina is a Costa Rican born Art-based Creative Director and Fashion Art Director based out of Amsterdam.

She is a Creative Director with 10+ years of experience working for advertising network Saatchi & Saatchi. She was transferred globally from America to Spain, Poland, and finally Hong Kong where she lived for over 10 years. Her International rotation allowed her to adapt her creative process to very diverse markets, developing some of the network’s key regional and local campaigns across diverse product categories for clients such as: Audi, Nissan, Toyota, Cadbury, Procter & Gamble, Barclay’s (Asia Pacific), Emirates (Asia Pacific), Novartis, Ritz Carlton Hotels (Asia Pacific), Green Peace and Amnesty Intl.

While living in Hong Kong, she pursued her long time interest in fashion imaging focusing her art direction skills on editorial work and brand campaigns publishing work in Tatler, Marie Claire, The Impression and Prestige Asia. For this role she completed a Masters program in Art Direction for Fashion and Luxury and received numerous certification from Central Saint Martins and University of Arts London.

More recently in Amsterdam, she collaborated with Belgium based digital agency Emakina taking on the EMEA regional role as Creative Art Director for KitchenAid.

In this role she was overseeing all the visual content art direction and execution to ensure a consistent on-brand messaging across all media channels and countries.

Her advertising portfolio is available on request.