Instagram Live Interview of Chris Do by Bolanle Banwo

Interview Poster

Photo Credit: Bolanle Banwo

Brief Bio on the Host:

Bolanle Banwo is a brand Identity designer/design advocate from Lagos, Nigeria. She helps brands tell compelling stories through creative designs. Much of her work is centered on helping small and medium businesses create strong identities via good communication designs. Bolanle is the Founder of The Female Designer Movement, an initiative she launched with a mission to train and equip women with design skill-set and thereby help increase the number of women in the Nigerian Technology ecosystem. She is also the Founder of Geneza Brands, a branding agency based in Lagos.

She was featured on BBC Pidgin in March, 2018 at the inaugural edition of The Female Designer Movement (I was privileged to be an assistant tutor for a session). She also spoke at the JAN/Microsoft DigiGirlz Camp held at the Microsoft Lagos office for International Women’s Day. In April, She was listed on Wema Bank’s Alat.ng’s Women In Tech (Tech-Chicks). She was also featured on the Business Day’s CEO Magazine, Women of Rubies, The Nigerian Tribune and Channels Television where she talked about her design journey, her projects and the work she is doing to improve the design ecosystem in general.

She may be found online on Instagram@bolanle_banwo, where she occasionally shares her work and projects. She currently teaches design at the Geneza School of Design. She's also getting the hang of running her channel on YouTube.

Interview Video

Video Source: Bolanle Banwo/YouTube

Brief Bio on the Guest:

Chris Do is an Emmy award-winning designer, director, CEO and Chief Strategist of Blind and the founder of TheFutur—an online education platform with the mission of teaching 1 billion people how to make a living doing what they love.

He currently serves as the chairman of the board for the SPJA, and as an advisor to Saleshood. He has also served as: advisory board member for AIGA/LA, Emmys Motion & Title Design Peer Group, Otis Board of Governors, Santa Monica College and Woodbury University.

He has taught Sequential design for over 15 years at Art Center College of Design as well as Otis College of Art and Design. Additionally, he has lectured all over the world including: AIGA National Design Conference, Birmingham Design Festival, Awwwards  New York/San Francisco/Amsterdam, AIGA Miami, The Design Conference Brisbane, Creative South, Digital Design Days Milan/Geneva, Lu Xun Academy Fine Art Dalian, Motion Conference Santa Fe, VMA Design Conference, MIT Boston, Bend Design Conference, Graphika Manila, Create Philippines, Rise Up Summit Cairo, RGD Design Thinkers Toronto, California Institute of the Arts, LA Art Institute, Otis College of Design, UCLA, MGLA, Cal State Los Angeles/ Northridge, Post Production World, Adobe Video World and San Diego University.

Enjoy their conservation.

Article Credits/References: Bolanle Banwo’s Blog, YouTube, Google and The Futur