Afromedia, my pet name for all types of media that claim to have an afro-centric slant, has been a growing phenomenon. It’s been a bit of a slow cooker though; some instances of afromedia just leave you cringeing… because it’s usually over the top, overdone, too self-conscious or worse: reinforces the same unhelpful stereotypes that it seeks to dismantle.
So when I picked up Arise, the big glossy new mag I stumbled upon in Chapters/Indigo the other day, I didn’t know what to expect. It could’ve gone either way. But you know what? This US-based, Nigeria / South-Africa / UK cross-production actually works. And I’m not the only one who thinks so: it apparently won ’launch of the year’ at the APA awards… Continue reading
…while moving! Though I dunno where the hardcopy is right now. But this was a design I came up with for a print portfolio. The recurring motif is from a pseudo-mandala / self-similar thingy I doodled during my wilderness years (in Sarawak, of all places). I call it 