#Yinka Ilori

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Yinka Ilori at the Design Museum, London

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Yinka Ilori | © Damian Griffiths | Hospital Rooms | Financial Times

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Yinka Ilori places gigantic chairs on The Line art walk in London

British-Nigerian designer Yinka Ilori has created two oversized chairs decorated with a colourful Dutch wax-like print for his Types of Happiness installation in east London.

The two 10-feet-high chairs, which were made from an internal steel frame with fibreglass padding and painted a high-gloss colour, are located on The Line art walk in east London's Royal Docks area.

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Art | Agents of change: six women artists discuss their canvas and worldview

Art | Agents of change: six women artists discuss their canvas and worldview

A pair of years in the past, Laurence des Cars was named the top of Louvre. The significance sinks in once you realise it’s the first time ever within the Parisian museum’s 230-year-history {that a} lady sits on the prime. The identical yr, Rijksmuseum featured women artists in its ‘Gallery of Honour’ — the primary time in its over two centuries of historical past. The numbers within the artwork…

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London, UK

An art installation, titled Good Things Come to Those Who Wait, by the artist Yinka Ilori in partnership with Art of London on display at the statue of Eros at Piccadilly Circus.

Photograph: Matthew Chattle/REX/Shutterstock

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Yinka Ilori: conheça o designer que celebra suas raízes com estampas abstratas multicoloridas

Em objetos para casa ou grandes instalações urbanas, o que move o artista e designer inglês Yinka Ilori é seu amor por contar histórias de suas raízes nigerianas e o desejo de tocar as pessoas incentivando a esperança, a felicidade e o pertencimentoPor Giuliana Capello* O designer Yinka Ilori com bola de basquete de sua autoria, na nova quadra da modalidade 3 x 3, desenhada para o Grupo Canary…

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Intersections Research

From what I understand from the brief, my aim for this project is to create space between two spaces and make something more than what it is. I decided to take the idea of intersections quite literally and was leaning towards the idea of working in an outdoor space. However, taking it so literally posed as a challenge for me as it took me many attempts at idea generation and weighing up pros and cons before finally settling on my current idea.

Idea Generation

Idea 1:

My first idea was to create an interactive xylophone bridge. I wanted to redesign one of the bridges I walk across often, near Hengistbury head/ Mudeford quay where in the summer, kids often sell painted rocks - I wanted to use these designs for each key of the xylophone. I did some research about interactive architecture as well as some primary research of some locations I could use. However, after some feedback and consideration, I realised this plan may be too arbitious and not worth it.

Research:

I looked into interactive architecture first - particularly musical architecture and discovered these two installations, one being similar to my first idea.

Xylophone Bridge Musical Motorway

I wanted my project to be almost like a community project, as my idea was to allow local children to create a design for each key of the xylophone bridge', I thought it would be a good idea to look into community murals and designs created by children.

Primary Research:

This is the style of bridge I thought would work best with my idea as the horizontal slabs going across the bridge would make it easier to design on. However, I realised I was looking for a bridge to fit my design - and not finding a design to fit my bridge which would mean I could be creating a problem in a place where there is no problem. For example, my aim for this redesign was to ensure kids were using the bridges. Often on pathway bridges, they walk up the side of them which is quite dangerous as they get high and have a large drop to some rocks on the side. I wanted to encourage them to use the bridge as it would be interactive and have been 'designed by them'.

But neither of these in the location I looked at have that problem, so I would be looking for an area that would suit both the problem and design which was unattainable, so the idea was scrapped and I went back to the drawing board.

Idea 2:

My second idea was to re-design zebra crossings located outside of primary schools. Sticking with the idea of community projects and children designing, I wanted to create a quick poster to ask the kids at my old primary school to do some drawings that would be painted onto the crossings outside.

But I then came to realise that this would mean this isn't my work, its theirs. So to move away from the idea of children designing, I rethought my plans and thought it might be interesting to look at zebra crossings as a whole. Do people still like the age-old black and white design and are zebra crossings still even used properly.

However, after starting some research, I discovered that re-designing the distinctive black and white striped crossing may not be the best idea at all as it poses a great risk for people - particularly partially-sighted people, and those with guide dogs as they are trained to recognise the crossing and it therefore may impact their willingness to cross the road, it may also impact those with neurological conditions such as Parkinson's and dementia.

While I know my work is conceptual, I still need to consider the ethical and societal implications of my designs, therefore, I immediately scrapped this idea after discovering this and brainstormed some more, which in turn lead me to my current idea which is less impactful for others in the community, yet still has a similar feel design wise.

Idea 3:

My third and final idea, and one that I will be following through with is brightening up seemingly run-down areas with murals and artwork to connect the two places together. This would include underpasses/subways throughout Poole, such as the ones by the ASDA train-station, or Poole park to Poole bus station/Baiter park underpass.

Primary Research:

Research:

I hope to be able to achieve something like this, however translate it to the darker more dingy areas which people may not feel comfortable passing through, particularly at night. Depending on the location I decide for my mural, I plan to design it almost like a map or bus ride if its the underpass near the bus station, with the route going from one corner, across the ceiling of the tunnel and back to the other corner, as if the bus is travelling from one side to the other as you walk through it. I will have all the key spots as well as great sight-seeing spots located and illustrated on this map while still keeping it brightly coloured and well lit.

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INTRODUCTION

Young and Old GENERATION.

My narrative is about two generations in the African diaspora: The Older generation and the younger generation. An African is someone born in Africa (a native), someone who is a descendant of a native or someone who can trace their ancestry to indigenous occupants of Africa.

Four hundred years ago, a group of countries, primarily from the western part of the world, travelled the Atlantic Ocean. The leaders of these group of countries were, I am assuming, unsatisfied with the amount of resources they could call their own. So, they made it their priority to do something about it. During their time in Africa, they looted, stole greedily, killed mercilessly. They also damaged something more valuable than the things they came to steal: our identity. Our identity was what made us who we were. It was in our food, traditions, languages, the we talked and danced, it was everywhere. Our ancestors managed to mend together pieces of our identity that were scattered all over the world. However, the reconstructed identity lacks authenticity. Our new identity is stained with the different ways trauma manifests, pain, fear, anger, frustration and stress. Our parents will discipline us when we expressed ourselves and disguise it as good parenting. Even the way we were disciplined was out of fear. They knew no other way to raise a child than the way they were raised themselves. If you consider yourself to be African then you carry generational trauma. Our identity was built on a foundation riddled with trauma and it has created a generational divide between the old and young generation.

Our jobs as individuals and as a collective is to close the gap and the best way to achieve this is by coming together and heal one another otherwise, just like a virus, we will pass on the same damage identity from generations to generations.

My narrative will compare, contrast, and juxtapose the older generation to the younger generation. The older generation look at the world through a black and white lens. They are stubborn and will resist thinking outside the box for answers. They are either yes or no, they are never in between. The younger generation, in contrast, looks at the world through a colourful lens. We are optimistic, we are playful, we are willing to experiment and we are willing to think outside the box for answers.

To compose my narrative, I will take picture of landscapes, natural resources and building architecture. The primary pictures I take will visually communicate my narrative as well as severing as evidence for my blog.

Below are a few artists whose work I am inspired by for my own narrative.

Billie Zangewa is an artist who uses collages and hand stitched fragment to shed light on pollical issues for example the way in which black women are treated in south Africa. I will use her work as inspiration. Just like her, I will use my collected resources to shed light my narrative: old and young generation.

Jim Dine is an artist who took interest in small everyday items like a screwdriver. I am inspired by his work because, just like him, I want to use random object to communicate my narrative.

Yinka Ilori is an artist and I am inspired by his work. He use bold colours to talk about his heritage. I will experiment with shapes and colours to communicate my narrative.

The image in the post is a mind map. On there are my thought process and the things I had to consider to write the introduction to my narrative. For example, I had to break my narrative into 3 questions. That help sped up the process.

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Designing with Optimism

Yinka Ilori’s practice is underpinned by the belief that the benefits of art and design should be accessible to all. The London-based designer founded his eponymous “colour-obsessed” studio in 2017, and has since become known for using the city as a canvas. Illori enlivens urban spaces with public installations that ooze energy, joy and happiness. Examples include basketball courts, parks and pedestrian crossings: all transformed through playful combinations of colour and pattern. Now, Ilori’s first museum display opens at London’s Design Museum, presenting over 100 objects across architecture, furniture and graphic design.

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Laundrette of dreams by Yinka Ilori

This installation reimagines a community laundrette as a vibrant, interactive play space using Lego bricks.

It felt refreshing to come across a designer that’s work is influenced by their African culture and identity. Most of Ilori’s work is inspired by traditional African Ankara print designs and fabrics.

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Yinka Ilori | Dezeen