Instagram Live Interview of Pablo Stanley 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 around 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:

Pablo Stanley, a designer living in San Francisco, originally from Mexico. He loves solving design puzzles, making silly illustrations, composing geeky music, creating colorful animated gifs, munching veggie burgers, and writing comics. He also runs his blog and portfolio site called Stanley Colors.

Here are some of the projects he has been working on:

• He’s currently a Co-founder and Head of Design at Carbon Health where they are making healthcare simple and smart
• He has a comics series called The Design Team, which follows the story of Petunia, a junior designer that just moved to San Francisco
• Mentoring is one of his new found passions. You can check out his YouTube channel Sketch Together
• He also gives live workshops in San Francisco on design tools. The workshops are called Sketch Together
• Kindly also check out his awesome design courses at Udemy
• Here are his Dribbbleshots 

Enjoy their conservation.

Article Credits/References: Bolanle Banwo’s Blog, YouTube, Google and Stanley Colors