out of the past and into today; out of museums and into the hands and minds of Nigerian (African) designers for the love of the people and the sake of the future

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We are a Nigerian design lab & research hub exploring a design ethos for creating objects and experiences that honors the past by synthesizing with the present to continue culture

We believe that the historical era gave us some useful, beautiful things and ways of making.

Through collective design conversation, practice, and theory, we aim to bring this visual spirit and principle out of the past, out of museums and into the hands and minds of Nigerian makers, designers, and people,

Like all other beautiful things, we believe they should be engaged with by people, researchers, and designers to define new, exciting expressions that are seen, felt, smelt, held, sat on, played with, strummed, scuffed, dragged, experienced, used, loved…