Released Oct 2, 2022
Afrodigital came about by pure serendipity, formed over years of interaction, finding and losing, and learning about these amazing individuals, titans in the Nigerian digital space, and we're honored that this is their genesis in the NFT space, a place that has given me so much. With these series and subsequent drops, our goal is the same as it's always been: to push African digital art forward.
This collection features (5) 24-hour 7/7 Drawings for these genesis piecess.
Morenike Olusanya, popularly known as Renike, is an award-winning visual and book cover artist, and illustrator from Nigeria. When she’s not creating masterpieces or challenging herself to learn and do more, she is a mentor to artists that need guidance, educating them about how to solve problems and turn their art into a business, if they choose to go down that path. Her work focuses on presenting black women in soft and subtle tones, which is in direct contrast with the way black women are often portrayed, rooted in the stereotype that they always have to be strong. The core message in her work is to represent black women growing and existing as young people in the world who are experiencing life.
Durotimi Bolaji-Idowu “Duro-Arts” is an art director / Illustrator currently working out of Lagos Nigeria. His work has been an essential part of Nigerian pop Culture over the last decade. Duroarts’ portfolio includes a roster of clients including Atlantic Records, Sony music, UBA (United bank of Africa) and MTVbase. He has had features on platforms such os OkayAfrica, Culture Custodian and Zikoko.
Thompson. S. Ekong, Visual Director of Baroque Age, in Nigeria, creates visuals using ideologies we live out in our everyday lives. The understanding of humanity is lust in art. Orchestrating this complexity that swings in the form of human emotion, our minds of curiosity, love, faith, spirituality, and our consciousness has led to so many innovative and creative things in our world. The more we have to give in our ongoing world of proving our black skin keeps me alive every day, being part of the culture and era currently being written down in history, our generation Z, living with the responsibility of taking these shots down visually as I spread not only my world abstractions but also tell the story of minds growing by creating a change.
Niyi Okeowo is a multidisciplinary creative whose practice spans art direction, graphic design, 3D art, animation, photographer and branding. Based in Lagos and with over eight years of experience as a creative specialist, Okeowo has conceived experiences, identities and visuals for a roster of clients including Smirnoff, Uber and LVMH, and has had his work featured on platforms such as OkayAfrica, Future London Academy and Abduzeedo. When he isn't working on client-related projects, he creates colourful illustrations under the moniker @hellomrcolor
Sir Duksalot is a visual evangelist. "The vision is simply to preach art design, forge and influence it for the better, however I can. It’s all about pushing the culture forward. My focus is on everything. Everything art, everything performance, everything music, everything beautiful.” He is truly an artist of all forms. He has written and produced songs, worked on a video game, created album art for 95% of current Nigerian artistes and directed music videos for them.
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