Nicolás Ortega

Cover For The New York Times. “Trump’s Challenge to Free Market Capitalism: Stakes in private companies. Handshake deals with chief executives. The president’s economic policy has drifted far from principles that long defined the Republican Party. Is it capitalism at all?” Text by Ben Casselman @nytimes

SUPER HAPPY and dream come true! Honored to have worked with @mubi on the poster for the upcoming film of one of my favorite directors. Park Chan-Wook new film Decision To Leave hits theaters next month. @mubi @mubiusa @mubi_uk

Artwork for @interpol is out today! Produced by the legendary team of Flood and Moulder, Interpol's seventh album The Other Side Of Make-Believe is available for Pre-order via https://interpol.ffm.to/tosomb.owe 🌕 type by @go_dejong

VAMOOS! So happy to announce that the artwork did for The Atlantic last year are part of the winners of the 2025 American Illustration 45 Annual. With the great help of @colinhunterdesigner For The Atlantic. “WHAT IF OUR ANCESTORS DIDN’T FEEL ANYTHING LIKE WE DO? An emerging field of history asks if we can ever really understand how our forebears experienced love, anger, fear, and sorrow.” Text by Gal Beckerman. @theatlantic

For The Atlantic. “WHAT IF OUR ANCESTORS DIDN’T FEEL ANYTHING LIKE WE DO? An emerging field of history asks if we can ever really understand how our forebears experienced love, anger, fear, and sorrow.” Text by Gal Beckerman. @theatlantic

ILLUSTRATION JURY LADAWARDS 2026⚡ Este es el jurado que evaluará las mejores propuestas de Illustration en la 10ª edición de los Latin American Design Awards: Nicolás Ortega – Jury President. Ilustrador y director de arte colombiano radicado en Nueva York. Ha trabajado con Milton Glaser, Sagmeister Inc. y Penguin Random House. Publicado en The New York Times, The Guardian y The New Yorker, y reconocido por ADC, TDC y Society of Illustrators. Braulio Amado (BAD Studio) – Diseñador e ilustrador portugués basado en NYC. Colabora con A24, Frank Ocean, Hermès, The New Yorker y más, desarrollando un lenguaje gráfico audaz y contemporáneo. Khyati Trehan (Google Creative Lab) – Diseñadora y artista visual. Crea sistemas visuales y herramientas experimentales, con clientes como The New York Times, Apple y Vogue. Reconocida por Forbes 30 Under 30 y ADC Young Guns. Igor Bastidas – Artista, animador y director venezolano radicado en Brooklyn. Su práctica abarca cortos, GIFs, prints y proyectos comerciales con una voz visual distintiva. Alexandra Zsigmond (Hammer & Hope) – Art Director con más de una década comisionando ilustración para The New York Times y The New Yorker. Ha colaborado con más de 1,000 artistas y es jurado frecuente en premios internacionales. Una combinación de mirada editorial, práctica artística y dirección creativa que definirá la excelencia en ilustración este 2026. ¿Listo para que tu trabajo sea evaluado por referentes globales? Inscríbete en LADAWARDS.ORG #LADAWARDS #LADAWARDS2026 #Illustration #EditorialIllustration #DesignAwards

Totally honored and happy to be part of The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Atlantic most memorable artwork of 2025. Has been amazing working together with incredible-an very patient- Art Directors (Hitomi Sato, Beth Broadwater and Paul Spella) during last year. Being next to way-far amazing illustrators is without a doubt a dream come true. 🌲🌲🌲 🥹

Super happy and honored to be selected as part of the winners by The Art Directors Club this year. With the help of the best @authenticzakbickel . Cover for The New York Times. “Bluesky, smiling at me. This Twitter alternative is riding high on good vibes, but best is the feeling of freedom that early social media once offered.” Text by Kevin Roose @kevinroose

For Variety. “Trump’s War on Truth: The president wants to diminish journalism. It’s working” text by Todd Spangler @xpangler 🍊 @variety

For The New York Times Book Review. “Plot Twist: An experimental whodunit that soon expand into a collage of literaly genres. Jonathan Coe latest novel, “The Proof of My Innocence,” is an attempt to fuse the polemic with the postmodern experiment.” Text by Leo Robson @nytimes

For the New York Times. “Jobs Will Never Be The Same: Artificial intelligence isn’t just the future of work, it’s the present.” With stories by Noam Scheiber, Brooks Barnes, Natasha Singer and Cade Metz. @nytimes

VAMOS! So happy to announce that the artwork did for The Atlantic last year are part of the winners of Art Directors Club in Tokyo and 2024 American Illustration 44 Annual. 😭 For The Atlantic. “Army Of God: Emboldened by Trump’s victory, American Christians are embracing a charismatic movement known as The New Apostolic Reformation, which seeks to destroy the secular state. Now their war begins“ Text by Stephanie McCrummen @theatlantic