Nimbakanizi

They/Them

Previous Contracts & Award Winning Pieces

Much of my freelance work as a digital artist is creating custom, culturally-relevant promotional material (such as stickers, posters, and clothing graphics), for various Indigenous organizations and non-profit collectives.
Tribal Lands is a Toronto-based clothing brand born out of the Native Youth Resource Centre downtown. In 2025 they approached me with a request to design culturally relevant shirts and hoodies for their website. Look out for the selected designs coming soon!

front and back t-shirt design: the front has a sticker that says 'ask me about my clan', the back is the silhouettes of the Ojibwe clan animals in a seven-point star long sleeve shirt design, front and back: the front says 'Tribal Lands' on the top left, and the back has a purple thunderbird with cartoon lightning bolts below the wings

In Winter of 2024, I won first place in the Native Child & Family Services virtual greeting card contest. Just a few months later, I would also take second place in the Pink shirt Day sticker contest.
My style blends realism with bold, flowing vectors. I often find myself inspired by artists like Emily Kewageshig and Shawn Howe (Red Cedar Tree)

illustration of a fancy shawl dancer in the snow, with a moonlit background that says 'happy holidays' illustration of a plant sprouting a heart, with a thunderbird in the surrounding soil

Indigitech: Cohort 5 (2025)

Watercolour comic panel detailing the white-horse teaching from Ojibwe culture

No Generative AI, Just Creative Thought

Over 12 weeks, I completed the virtual mentorship program IndigiTech through the Indigenous Friendship Association. During which time, I honed several Business, UX Design, Digital Art, and Social Media Marketing skills.

poster design for the Miqmak Kitchen catering company med-fi mockup of the landing page for an app called Red Hand Finder

In addition to making this website from SCRATCH (background graphics and all), my final project for UX design was to create a mock-up for my community-led, missing Indigenous persons database idea. This included a case study presentation to the class.

Below are a sample business card and accompanying logo created in digital art using Procreate. We were tasked to interpret the brand identity of Chimnissing Hydroponics, a mobile garden based on Christian Island (a.k.a Chimnissing First Nation), attempting to make fresh produce more accessible to Indigenous communities in the area. Our client highlighted the importance of displaying a sense of community, and the island's natural beauty (namely the water), but was otherwise open to any style and colour scheme within 2000x2000 pixels.

Business card for the afformentioned Chminissing Hydroponics

Personal Portraits & Ongoing Projects

styalized portrait of a native woman, nursing a newborn with the sun behind them realistic, digital portrait of two women embracing in front of cherry blossom trees
cartoon pizza slice holding pop-culture stickers and a collection binder with the heading text: Monthly Stickers Club: Stickers, Pins & Patches Exchange'

In the fall of 2025, I became a member of a monthly stickers club. Tech Pizza Monday is a Toronto-based collective for nerdy tech-based discussion, art and research. The first monday of every month they host a stickers, pins & patches exchange. I enjoyed it so much that I insisted on revamping their website, adding a brand new landing page for stickers club and designing posters to recruit new members. If you're an artist, consider joining us next month!