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Welcome to dEX Lingo where we take you through an auditory journey of what matters most to designers.

With experienced resource persons across the design industry, we give you in-depth stories and tips on how to stay relevant and bust it in the Ghanaian design space.

Countered at the Crossbar: A Typographer’s Journey

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Countered at the Crossbar: A Typographer’s Journey
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It is always an interesting journey for anyone who experiences the beauty of colours, strokes & lines! This is the similar experience we have in this episode as we get to understand the make of Enosh Ghansah, a father, designer and a typography savant who has commissioned major brands in Ghana and believes in research! P.S Don’t miss out on our flagship event, Artmosphere 4.0, going live on the 30th of August 2020. Visit dexartmosphere.org/  to sign up now

Creative Governance: Finding your Zen to Creative Leadership

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Creative Governance: Finding your Zen to Creative Leadership
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“It’s our mission to shrink the Gap for artists to get the market.., to ensure that our industry is not looked down on… ”, these are the words of an illustrious and entrepreneurial daughter of the Republic of Ghana who has valiantly earned her seat as the current Director of the Creative Arts Council. In this episode, we swim in her rivers of experience as we relive her narrative of how she became a leader in the creative industry. Governance meets creativity and we’re owning the parliament house for this one on topics of Creative Funds, Policy-Making and Support! Join Gyankroma Akufo-Addo in this episode where we debunk creativity as a hobby. Also, don’t miss out on our flagship event, Artmosphere 4.0, going live on the 30th of August 2020. Visit dexartmosphere.org/ for more details.

Shutter to Success: Photography in Ghana

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Shutter to Success: Photography in Ghana
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Lights, camera, pose! Ghanaian photography has moved from the black and white stage to a moment of colour and grandiose display for print, advertising and social media. In this episode, we look into the lenses of a Londoner turned Ghanaian-based photographer who has told a plethora of stories with photography. Emmanuel Bobbie would be showing us his journey of storytelling and how he has thrived as a successful photographer in Ghana -#FunFact that’s on his call card. You heard it first on dEX Lingo! Stay Glued!

Designing a Workspace That Inspires Creativity

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Designing a Workspace That Inspires Creativity
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Desk all set, notebook and pens ready and a mind to execute that gig! We all have this moment  where we need to  find the right work space that  inspires our creative workflow. In this episode, we explore the creative life of Sunita Kragbe, CEO of Basecamp Initiative, and a creative expert with 8 years of experience in Advertising, Branding, Design, Marketing and Project Management across parts of Europe and Africa. She is passionate about the creative arts, spaces & interiors, marketing, capacity building and problem solving. We will explore her journey and how this daughter of advertising became the founder/CEO of a co-working space for creative people.

Getting Design-Certified: Design Education in Ghana

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Getting Design-Certified: Design Education in Ghana
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Being an educationist and a principled person in the world of design, Farah Hamoui, the Head of Department of the Graphic Design Department at Radford University decodes having a design education in Ghana in this episode. Ready to be schooled?  Listen today for more!

Sketch and Strokes to Success: The Illustrator’s Guide

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Sketch and Strokes to Success: The Illustrator's Guide
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Colours, brushes and a lot of outlines. Whew! That’s a lot but we have the breakdown on this episode with an industry illustrator yogi who has built a career in illustration and has setup a seemingly odd ensemble of a brand that has stolen the hearts of the younger generation. Biography Delali Avemegah is an  artpreneur, a storyteller and a music head . He currently works at Fish & Plankton, an independent, creative publishing company based in Ghana, as the CEO who foresees the team’s goals into developing stories that sell. With Fish & Plankton’s strong network of f writers,  artists, illustrators, volunteers and social listeners, they  develop books for children in Africa and the rest of the world and believe that good stories are great tools to educate, inspire and engage the children of our generation.

Ahoy Team ! The Mast for Creative Project Success

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Ahoy Team ! The Mast for Creative Project Success
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Leading a team can be herculean but leading a creative team is a vast land of opinions and creative philosophies. How do you get past the chaos to lead your team to that goal?  How do you curb the social loafing and team banters. Well,we have a Creative Director who simply know the hacks to make that team,the team your clients need!   Biography Benjamin Anyan is a force to reckon with in the creative industry,here in Ghana. Currently a Creative Director for Publicis Ghana, he has had regional and local business portfolios worth over $100M and has gained a functional and directive span of experience in digital and traditional marketing. When he is not busy upping his portfolio with clients like the USAID,PZ Africa,Nestle West Africa,Scancom.Lonestar Cell and Coca-Cola,to mention a few,he runs a sleek necktie shop as proof to his creativity and dapper juice.  

The Ghosts of Design Past : We Retro’d BIG TIME!

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The Ghosts of Design Past : We Retro’d BIG TIME!
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A wiseman once said “To be the best, visit your past” LOL! We coined that. But interestingly, reminiscing the history of design has been neglected for long and diluted the design scope of people in Ghana. In this episode we back our claim with the right resource person who has experienced the past and is in our “now”. He is none other than Prof. Ato K.G deGraft-Johnson. Ato K.G. deGraft-Johnson is a retired lecturer, and former Head, Department of Communication Design, KNUST. He leads by demonstrating and nurturing creativity, and promoting critical-thinking. His current research work is on an appropriate pedagogy for Design Education in Africa that telescopes endogenous, participatory development across all disciplines. He advocates for cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary education with Design as an integral component.

Oh My Design! We’re Live !

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Oh My Design! We're Live !
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And we’re live! Welcome to the exclusive excerpt from the dEX lingo auditory arena.Here,you get to meet the young dEXters who would be taking you on your design talk journey to self realization and design purpose and superb tips to make that bank in Ghana. Excited? There’s more!!! Just Stay Tuned to the end. This is dEX Lingo!