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I first spotted the very creative very out of the box, or more like in the box, campaign for the latest Nokia Maps on a drive from Ikeja airport to the Ikoyi. I immediately went out of my way to find a Nokia store and get my hands on some of this creative goodness! The design features hand drawn illustrations of Abuja and Lagos. It’s black and white with a splash of colour and all this to me screams yum yum yummy!

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Seek Project Illustration

Interview with Nigerian based designer and illustrator Karo Akpokiere.

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We’ve been working with the smart/savvy guys at Veda Technology on their upcoming website. We initially designed and built a holding page for them in May which you can find here www.veda.com.ng.

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Photo: BPG – UI Sketch 2 courtesy Martin Kulakowski

In other words 7 simple steps to better website design. Now I hate to have used this title but how else would I have gotten your attention? I once sent some design comps to a friend for feedback – Nigerian of course – his response went something like this:

‘Great work as usual, very “oyinbo”, very clean!’.

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MTN seem to have recently updated their website. I’m glad to see the layout is much nicer/cleaner. There is better consistency with typefaces. And the banners aren’t as tacky. Also the navigation is now in black as opposite to the horrid metallic grey gradient they use to have. Love love love the greys.

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