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Bracelet package excitement
I wanted to share pictures of the packaging for some bracelets that are headed to Maryland. I hope you like these Minku-made aso-oke pouches as much as I do! The bracelets too, of course. Filed under:...
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Minku Fifth Anniversary Pop-up event in Lagos – pictures
Here are the pictures from the pop-up event held in Lagos on April 9, 2016. It was at Stranger, our stockist in Lagos. There isn’t much to say besides thank you to all the amazing people who came, saw,...
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Do you know what week it is?
It’s Formula 1 week. Which happens every two weeks during Formula 1 season, except in August when the drivers have, gasp, the month off! Formula 1 week means I have Formula 1 to look forward to on the...
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Confetti tyres and detach-y front wings
If you wanted a clue about the unpredictability with which the 2016 Austrian GP was about to unfold, you needed to look no further than the array of tyres on which the different teams started their...
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Summer notes
It’s almost mid-July already. This has just been the loveliest of summers, with everything taking on a calm warmth. I had been traveling a lot (this year alone so far: Lagos, London, NYC, Blacksburg, a...
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A race in the wet
Trust the Silverstone circuit to deliver a race in the wet. It wasn’t actively raining, so most drivers switched from wets to intermediate tyres early in the race, and as the track dried, to mediums....
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Work, play, and dreaming of the weekend
I worked all of yesterday. Today, too. I am simultaneously working on four bags. You can see one I completed on Monday, here, and also below. The extra lovely weekend prepped me for such a busy week....
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We got the funk
I’m excited that it’s Friday. We’re about to go and watch a funk band (the guy loves funk :-)) and I’m happy to put away work and go and have a weekend. Or at least a Friday night. I’ve been working on...
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The music/maker connection
I’ve been having to ask myself a lot lately, what role music plays in my creative process. It used to be something that just happened, me listening to music, me dancing a lot, me karaokeing in front of...
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Verstappen and other quirks at F1’s Spa-Francorchamps
Where does one start in reviewing a race that felt like those season premieres that give you two episodes of your favorite show in one sitting? Belgian GP, with its two starts including one brought on...
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Mastering Mobile
It’s 3:30am. We won the pub quiz, all six of us, The Blue Shakamakas. I came up with the Shakamaka part of the name: it reminded me of when I was eight or nine, and my younger siblings and I would come...
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MMXVI: The Year of Verstappen
2016 is the Year of Max Verstappen. He’s the man whose headstrong defensive drives we grew to dislike, yet whose aggressive overtakes had us singing his praises… all in the span of five races. He won’t...
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File this under: Learning in Design
A while ago I started to make some bags that were smaller. To me, that they were smaller meant that the thick aso-oke lining I usually use was doing them a bit of a disservice. Because the fabric is...
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Out on a disorderly artistic limb
For my most recent birthday, some of my friends presciently gave me a sketchpad. Although I thought nothing of it at the time, I recently took a break from bag making to return to my first love: art....
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This is me wishing for snow.
Winter is here for real and like many in the Mediterranean, I’m in full-on denial about how cold it can get on a January afternoon in these parts. So for instance, today I ran work errands in a thin...
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A different photo shoot than the ones I usually do.
This has been a pretty amazing week, with trips to get fabric for work, attendance of social media week lagos events, and a photo shoot that I had been conceiving in my mind’s eye for months. It’s hard...
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Minku is six this month; to celebrate, I’m taking the week off
Minku is six this month and to celebrate, I’m taking the week off. Last year, when this being that has brought so much joy to people’s lives turned five, I celebrated in a different way: a pop-up event...
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“The car was grippy” and other F1 comments
Formula 1 is amazing and I’m so happy the season has kicked off. I was watching the driver comments at the end of today’s Sochi GP Q3 (qualifying round 3) and it’s just so cool to see what relationship...
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How I learned computing Part I
These days it’s not too hot and humid and I’ve even felt like working several days in a week. It’s been a pretty amazing summer. Today I wanted to tell you about how I got into computing. I’m a...
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There are a few things that are important for optimizing one’s design work. First, it’s important to know what I optimize for I optimize for the usefulness of what I am making. I want the user to find...
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