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BRAND CLIENTS & GIGS, PAST & PRESENT

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Projects.

Founder Nichola Napora's rich and storied career led to the creation of Mystic Peaks Studio as a natural evolution of her passion and purpose. Here is an assortment of some work from the past decade working with and within other organizations. Our network is part of our networth. Collaborative sustainable creative culture based projects are my jam. This sampling is but a small taste.  

A deeper dive to illustrate diversity, passion, awareness and experience coming in the future. Sign up to stay connected! Thanks for stopping by~

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Consultant/Contractor for Project Management, Innovation and Product Development, and Technical Design on Black Diamond Equipment 8000m mission / guide driven mountaineering project in collaboration with Alpenglow Expeditions. Extensive testing for validation is multi-year.

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Consultant/Contractor for Project Management, Innovation and Product Development, and Technical Design on Black Diamond Equipment 4000m mission / guide driven mountaineering parka in collaboration with RMI Guides. Men's and Women's available blackdiamondequipment.com

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BLACK DIAMOND X C.Nachtigall X MPS

Consultant/Contractor for Project Management, Innovation / Product Dev, and Technical Design on Black Diamond Equipment on cross-over down collection for rock climbing and casual wear in category expansion. Men's and Women's available blackdiamondequipment.com

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Providing Industry Expertise to various clients and projects. Experience with circular models, unconventional business, scaling difficult projects, lean manufacturing, technical innovation, experiential integration.

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BESPOKE NATURE EXPLORATION IMMERSIONS

Sharing creative nature immersive opportunties by request. Stoke the Imagination! Discovery leads to insights x inspiration = vision to be created + developed. Time in the wilderness makes the magic of innovation possible.​​

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TOP SECRET PROJECTS ANNOUNCING SOON

It can take years for projects to reach the place where they can be spoken of in a public space. Currently accepting new projects for Fall 2026 forward.

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Dakine x CSR Design x Mystic Peaks

Consultant/Contractor for Innovation and Product Development on Dakine Apparel Outerwear re-launch F22 and F23. Part of a Global Remote Team. 

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Patagonia x Hōkūle‘a

Collaborative Leadership, Tech Design, Innovation Development for AR&D Project. Multi-Year Sailing Expedition, Ocean Health Storytelling #PacificRim

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Patagonia Sports/OuterWear/Special Projects

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Patagonia X FYi Design Dept.

R&D High Alpine Climbing Project (Patagonia Ambassadors Steve House & Josh Wharton in the field. Image Source: The Alpinist Wears No Clothes)

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Gruff Goats 2015 & 2020

Dance Theatre Company - Character Development, Costume & Dance Performance Art. (Image Credit: Tiffany Stark, Choreography: Trish Belsham)

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Substack Newsletter, a place of discovery x artistic dev to feed the innovation cycle of documenting, investigating, experimenting, and reimagining.

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Mystic Peaks Studio gratefully and respectfully acknowledges that we work, live and play on the shared unceded territory of the Skwxwú7mesh, St'át'imc , and Lilwat7úl Nations. We honour their language, culture and enduring connection to the land.

We offer our work in gratitude to the song of the wild.

© 2025 Mystic Peaks Studio

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