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.
