Norteaa Illustration - The work of Nick Nortier

Sailing on the Winds of Change This is a mural I did in Grand Rapids, Michigan, for the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts' Exit Space Project. We had two weeks to complete a giant mural using house paint and spray paint. 2015 Graffiti, Illustration, Street Art
Grand Rapids' Living Room WIP I recently picked up a mural commission through Downtown Grand Rapids Inc. with my friend Joe. We will be painting the tunnel I talked about in the above section. Our idea is to paint the people of GR for a park we’re dubbing “GR’s Living Room”. We set up a photo booth and took about 170 photos of different people. We are going to choose them at random and draw them into our upcoming mural. These are just sample drawings for the time being. Next week we should have a lot more to show for this project. 2015 Graffiti, Illustration, Street Art
Michigan Made T-shirts The hops in this shirt were drawn by hand and then scanned, vectorized, and organized into the shape of Michigan. They are hand printed on high quality Bella + Canvas super soft shirts. 2015 Drawing, Fashion, Illustration
Pow! Wow! Hawai'i I went down to Honolulu for Pow! Wow! Hawai'i 2015 as a volunteer and ended up painting alongside my friend Sergio Garzon. Here is the chaos that ensued! 2015 Graffiti, Illustration, Street Art
Gold Toof This is a house face I installed on my step brother's house on the corner of Kalamazoo and Hall in Grand Rapids. 2015 Graffiti, Illustration, Street Art
Pabst Blue Ribbon Mural Joe Parsaca (Tubes) and I picked up Pabst Blue Ribbon as a client and did a huge mural for them at Mulligans Pub in Grand Rapids, MI. Here are the results of our collaboration. 2015 Cartooning, Illustration, Painting
Downtown Window Project Downtown Grand Rapids Inc. commissioned me to design snowflakes and holiday window decorations for Division Avenue. All in all I produced 150 snowflakes and distributed them to around 20 businesses. 2014 Drawing, Graphic Design, Illustration
Heidelberg Project I visited the Heidelberg Project in Detroit a few months back, this is my small contribution. 2014 Graphic Design, Illustration, Street Art
Blinky Plain and simple, I turned this quonset hut facade into a Pac Man ghost. 2014 Graffiti, Illustration, Street Art
The Neighborhood House I am the Exterior Set Art Director and Designer for Lamp Light Music Festival. This is a house a turned into a giant face for the 2nd annual festival in Grand Rapids, MI. It is a three day showcase with 36 bands playing at 5 different houses, all of which had faces. 2013 Illustration, Set Design, Street Art
Lamp Light Music Fesitval Houses These are the five houses that were involved in Lamp Light Music Festival, a grassroots, organized by the community, music festival in Grand Rapids, MI. It spanned three days and hosted 36 bands, numerous workshops, and art from artists in many different fields. Check out more at http://lamplightmusicfestival.com/ 2013 Illustration, Set Design, Street Art
Tree Mural This is a mural I did in the barn I used to live in. I had to move out of there so I took it with me. 2013 Drawing, Illustration, Painting
Great Fish Toss Game I was attending a beer making and tasting class when my notes turned into doodles. I drew the guy who was sitting in front of me and then imagined him being hit in the face with a fish. After class I went home and decided to turn my sketch into a finished piece and this is what came out of it. My love of cartoons and comics as a kid has definitely influenced by current work and the humor has definitely carried through. 2013 Character Design, Illustration, Painting
Knows Rows This is Knows and he's on all sorts of adventures. 2014 Branding, Drawing, Illustration
FOUND Magazine Editorial Illustrations This is an editorial piece I did for FOUND Magazine. The story is about a gay couple in New York City who found a baby at a subway station which they ended up adopting. The couple were initially nervous about adopting because they thought their sexual orientation would cause some hangups in the system but the judge who handled the case pushed it through with no resistence. I couldn't be happier for these two and I am honored to be the one chosen to illustrate this amazing story. 2014 Drawing, Editorial Design, Illustration
Livesmiths Logo This is a logo I designed for Livesmiths, a sound design company based out of Grand Rapids, MI. 2014 Branding, Graphic Design, Illustration
High Five Co-op/Rockford Brewing Co. The latest High Five Co-op Brewery poster, a collaboration with Rick Fortier. 2013 Digital Art, Drawing, Illustration
High Five Co-op/Mitten Collaboration Wob and Jason, the brewers from Mitten Brewing Co. in Grand Rapids, MI, brew two batches in one day on a regular basis. After one of those days, Wob said, "Man all I want to do is sit in a hot tub right now!" To which I responded, "Well, you can go hop in the brew kettle!"
2013 Cartooning, Digital Art, Illustration
The Jump Off "Running through the Hawaiian Islands to escape a pack of feral pigs, our hero had no choice but to jump!"

Watercolor
Ink
Digital 2013 Digital Art, Illustration, Painting
High Five Co-op Brewery Membership Poster High Five Co-op Brewery is finally legely incorporated with the state of Michigan. To celebrate, we're selling memberships in order to raise capital to help us buy a building and proceed to open a brewery. 2013 Branding, Digital Art, Illustration
grrRoPoLis Album Cover Michael Cunningham, the lead singer of grrRoPoLis, approached me for this album cover with a strange request. "I want a giraffe with a camera for a head." I produced exactly that for him and exceeded his expectations, especially with the addition of the tri-pod legs.

2013 Drawing, Illustration, Packaging
Let's Set Sail! This is a drawing turned digital turned laser wood etched. 2013 Character Design, Digital Art, Illustration
House Faces This is another scene from my kids book plus an actual house I converted into a monster. 2013 Character Design, Illustration, Painting
And to far away shores... The is another page for the kid's book I am working on. 2013 Character Design, Illustration, Painting
Escape on the Mackinac/ A Room With a View A Room with a View is a kid's book I have been working on for quite some time. It has gone through a number of revisions and is turning out to be a crazier project than I had originally anticipated. It has been a joy to compare my progression as an artist from a couple of years ago to now. 2013 Character Design, Digital Art, Illustration
Grand Rapids Aging Hipsters Association This is a t-shirt design I made to poke fun at myself and my friends. Imagine what everyone with tattoos and gagued ears will look like when their 80. This project explores that idea. 2013 Drawing, Illustration, Print Design
The Unknown This is a piece I did for a live painting event in Grand Rapids, MI. It is highly influenced by comic book art styling and lots of different materials and processes were used in the making of this piece. It's the first time I've cut something out of a piece of wood using a band saw and won't be the last. 2013 Drawing, Illustration, Painting
Skate Decks These skate decks were produced to be hung in a show put on by Premier Skate Shop in Grand Rapids, MI. 2013 Drawing, Illustration, Painting
Frontier Ruckus Posters These are posters I did for a Frontier Ruckus show in Grand Rapids, MI.

I had some design help from Benjamin John Davey on the type layout. 2013 Graphic Design
Cello Bookcase Last fall I received a broken cello from a grade school music teacher and was asked if I could build it into anything neat. This is what I came up with. 2013 Furniture Design, Industrial Design, Music