Nicolás Gallardo (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Gran Canaria, 1975) is a graphic designer, art director and illustrator. He completed his studies in Advertising Graphics at the Escuela de Arte in the mid-1990s and has since built his career both as a freelancer and within design studios and advertising agencies, specialising in editorial design, art direction and illustration.

He was the co-founder and art director of Central, a magazine focused on skateboarding and urban culture, also launched in the mid-nineties. He collaborates on cultural projects such as Contra Mapas, with which he received a Premio Canarias de Diseño (DICA). His work has been featured in books including 7 Sins and Matarile, and he has taken part in group exhibitions such as Canary Islands Urban Culture and at Galería Marlaska.