THIS IS NOT A RETROSPECTIVE

This collage offers a rare and intimate glimpse into the inner workings of a contemporary design practice rooted in Lagos, Nigeria. Featuring over 300 images, the collage is a curated archive of visual material—sketches, prototypes, reference imagery, digital renders, and behind-the-scenes snapshots—that document the ongoing dialogue of design within the studio. These visuals serve not only as artifacts of ideation but also as vessels of collaboration, experimentation, and reflection.

The collage brings you to view the often unseen aspects of design: the evolving conversations, spontaneous decisions, and material investigations that shape each object. Through this lens, an exploration of the studio's process-driven approach, where form, materiality, and functionality are continuously negotiated. It reveals the rigor and intuition that inform both in-house explorations and commissioned works.

The objects represented span diverse geographies, from Lagos to global context, but remain unified by a design language deeply informed by place, culture, and context. All projects, whether fabricated locally or internationally, are ultimately conceived and developed in Lagos, emphasizing the city’s role as both a creative engine and a source of influence.

This is NOT A RETROSPECTIVE, but rather a living archive, a work in progress offering insights to Nifemi’s studio’s ever evolving ethos and the larger discourse of design within cities and systems.