Domestika Diary: Nubikini

The lettering artist Nubia Navarro, better known as Nubikini, explains her routine to fight creative block without leaving home

Going from working in an agency surrounded by people to managing all your artistic projects from home can be a challenge, even for a creative who is used to managing her freelance commissions alone.

Venezuelan graphic designer and lettering artist Nubikini shows us how she lives day to day in this situation, both professionally and creatively, from her studio in Bogotá. She also shares her tips to fight the creative block that can affect us all if we do not exercise our mind during confinement. Find out below:

Nubia Navarro has been combining her work as a designer with her love of letters for years, creating lettering works and content for social networks. Her clients include major brands such as Marriott, Adidas, Samsung, Coca-Cola and UNICEF. Although, with many personal projects and freelance assignments, Nubia is not totally oblivious to the need to work from home, her routine, which was based around her work in an advertising agency, has been totally transformed.

To overcome uncertain moments and creative blocks, and to keep positive, Nubikini recommends starting the day with a dose of music, organizing her day around a good morning and, mainly, finding moments to play and create for fun. The aim of these exercises is to make you your best client: not to demand too much of yourself, but to encourage you to experiment with disciplines and styles that you like and make you happy.

Another option is to spend your time doing things for others. Nubia, for example, has created an initiative during the quarantine to project hopeful and positive messages on the façade of the building opposite. In this way, she uses her design, lettering, and illustration skills to make neighbors smile who, like her, are coping with confinement from their homes.

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