Zeke is a designer and artist interested in the tacit aspects of language, space, and culture.

In 2025, Manchester became the first-ever English guest city at Barcelona's iconic La Mercè Festival, Catalonia's biggest cultural festival. MCRBCN is a new design exhibition uniting Manchester and Barcelona's creative communities, this project brings together talent from both cities to explore cultural connections and fresh perspectives through the theme “A love letter to your city”.

My entry point to the theme focused on Architecture as it was my way into the city and its history. One illustration reflects the industrial buildings that continue to shape Manchester’s urban character today. The second highlights a personal connection through the former Chorlton Town Hall, where the 1945 Pan-African Congress helped pave the way for African independence.

You can view all the work and more about the exhibition on the website: mcrbcn.com

The intricately decorated pages of illuminated manuscripts, with their stunning illustrations and carefully crafted typography, have long been recognised as masterpieces of art and design. This project seeks to combine the rich tradition of illuminated manuscripts with the captivating world of African folktales, all brought together with typography.

In this book, I have brought to life some of the most cherished African folktales through vivid illustrations that capture the essence of each story. Each tale is accompanied by a stylised illumination of a letter from the Yoruba phonetic alphabet, carefully crafted to evoke the spirit of the story.

Simulating historical evolution of symbols in an invented writing system. "Kiko" is the product a experimental process focused on the development of a written script through acrophonic iteration. Its foundation lies in diverse cultural histories of writing and is influenced by artists like Victor Ekpuk, whose work blur the boundaries between art, language, and culture.

The process starts with acrophony, where letters are symbolised by words sharing the same initial sound. This pictorial representation is then redrawn up to one hundred and fifty times, allowing natural mistakes and whims to slowly evolve each iteration until we arrive at an entirely new symbol.

This exploration is an attempt to imagine what a written script for the Yoruba language of West Africa could look like if it was invented in its own cultural context.

This project involved the creation of a series of typographic posters, with a new design produced weekly in response to the most significant newspaper headlines of that week. Over a span of 15 weeks, I crafted a total of 16 unique posters. To ensure diversity and inspiration, I dedicated effort to incorporating various references into each design, resulting in a collection that shares a subjective theme rather than a visual one.

Titled "Penkelemesi," meaning chaos, this project aptly represents both the nature of the news during that period and the stylistic variations showcased in the posters themselves.

Taking inspiration from the newspaper format, I designed a broadsheet poster-zine that encompassed all the posters along with their corresponding stories that served as inspiration.