How curiosity became craft.
Curiosity Sparked
It started with nothing more than boredom and YouTube. I stumbled across a video of someone creating a logo in CorelDraw. I had no design background, no formal training — just a laptop, a free trial of CorelDraw, and a lot of curiosity. I spent the first few weeks just trying to understand how shapes, curves, and colours worked together.
First Logos & Lettermarks
My first real designs were logos — simple wordmarks and lettermarks for imaginary brands I made up just to practice. CorelDraw's node editing became my obsession. I would spend hours adjusting bezier curves trying to get letterforms to look the way I wanted. Most of it was terrible, but it taught me that design is a craft — it takes repetition.
Flyers, Posters & Print
Churches, student groups, and small businesses started noticing my work and asking for flyers, event posters, and banners. I designed everything from Sunday service announcements to birthday graphics. This is where I learned layout, hierarchy, and how to make information feel organised and beautiful at the same time — before I even knew the terminology.
Discovering Photoshop
CorelDraw had taken me far, but I knew serious designers used Photoshop. I started over — new software, new logic. Photo manipulation, masking, layer blending, and compositing opened a completely different dimension of what design could be. My first Photoshop projects were rough, but the ceiling was suddenly much higher.
Brand Identity Work
By this point I had done enough logos, flyers, and posters to understand that design is storytelling. Clients started coming to me for full brand identity work — logos, color systems, typography, business cards, and social media kits. I stopped designing in isolation and started asking: what does this brand want to communicate? Who is it speaking to?
Designing Week In, Week Out
Design became a second profession alongside cloud engineering. I now produce event graphics, conference materials, brand identities, social media creatives, and print materials on a weekly basis — for ministries, businesses, startups, and individuals across Lagos and internationally. Photoshop and CorelDraw are permanent tools in my workflow, as natural to me as Terraform or Docker.
Six categories.
All done with precision.
Brand Identity & Logos
Wordmarks, lettermarks, symbol marks, full brand guidelines
Event & Conference Graphics
Posters, banners, stage backdrops, programmes, badges
Social Media Creatives
Posts, stories, carousels, profile art, YouTube thumbnails
Print Design
Flyers, brochures, business cards, invitation cards, certificates
Custom Illustrations
Bespoke compositions, 3D text effects, digital artworks
Digital & Screen Graphics
Presentation decks, motion stills, digital ads