READING
Herbert Bayer: Universal
Princeton Architectural Press
A long look at a Bauhaus sensibility that refused to treat typography, furniture, and posters as separate problems.
ABOUT — CHAPTER 01
Designer,builder,collaborator.
I help brands, studios, and founders turn raw ideas into honest products. For seven years I've drifted between identity, interface, and three-dimensional work — always looking for the moment where craft meets clarity.
PORTRAIT · 001
A short version of a long story
I design at the seam between the tangible and the digital. Logos that sit comfortably on a business card and on a render pass. Interfaces that feel like objects. Motion that moves with purpose, not decoration.
I grew up in Lagos drawing letterforms and later fell for Blender after a particularly bad MBTI rabbit-hole. Today I split my time between long-term brand partners and a rotating cast of independent studios. I believe the best work comes from staying in the kitchen — being embedded with a team long enough to understand the dish we're actually cooking.
BORN
1997 · Lagos
FIRST TOOL
Figma, 2018
EDUCATION
Self-taught
LANGUAGES
English, Yorùbá
/ 02 · JOURNEY
Seven years, roughly four cities, and a stack of unfinished sketchbooks.
2025
Independent / Creative Designer
Self-directed · Lagos
Embedded brand + product partnerships with early-stage teams across Africa and Europe.
2023
Senior Brand Designer
Form Studio · Remote
Led visual systems for three public launches. Shipped a design-ops handbook still in use by the team.
2021
Brand & Motion Designer
Noir Agency · Lagos
Owned the motion pipeline — from storyboards to final renders — for ten+ identity rollouts.
2019
Freelance
Various · Remote
Built a portfolio the hard way: cold emails, late nights, and a lot of unsolicited logos.
2018
First file opened
Figma · Blender · Lagos
Discovered the joy of a pen-tool. Haven't closed it since.
/ 03 · PRINCIPLES
Four beliefs I try to bring to every project.
01
Clarity over cleverness
The clever idea is often the second one. The obvious one, executed well, almost always wins.
02
Systems that flex
A good system survives its maker. It carries enough opinion to feel alive and enough room to be wrong in interesting ways.
03
Craft as care
Details are a love letter to whoever shows up next — a user, a teammate, a future version of yourself.
04
Ship honest work
If the story matches the product, the rest takes care of itself. If it doesn't, no amount of polish will save it.
/ 04 · TOOLKIT
The tools do the thinking for you — if you let them.
/ 01FigmaInterface & systems
/ 02Blender3D direction & render
/ 03Cinema 4DMotion, occasionally
/ 04After EffectsMotion polish
/ 05IllustratorType & marks
/ 06WebflowMarketing sites
/ 07Next.jsProduction frontend
/ 08Framer MotionInteraction
/ 05 · RECOGNITION
Kind words and quiet nods.
- 2024Featured projectSiteInspire
- 2024Honorable mentionAwwwards
- 2023Top 100 designers to watchDribbble Annual
- 2023Interview: Designing in LagosBrand New
- 2022Panelist, Africa Design WeekADW Lagos
/ 06 · CURRENTLY
What I'm keeping close this month.
LISTENING
Love, Damini
Burna Boy · 2022
On repeat whenever I'm color-grading late. Puts me in the right headspace for a long render.
PLAYING
A Short Hike
Adam Robinson-Yu · 2019
A small, generous game I keep coming back to. Reminds me that scale isn't the same thing as ambition.
/ 07 · NEXT
If any of this sounds like your kind of trouble, I'd love to hear from you. Embedded engagements, identity sprints, or a weird idea you can't shake — all welcome.