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ICONOGRAPHIC: The first exhibition of my graphic poster art
As a budding design student, my first love was poster design. I used to pour over old Graphis annuals (many of which I later collected) inspired by the work of Shigeo Fukuda, Tommie Ungerer, Milton...
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4 Corners: An Interview with Everton Wright
In October, we in the UK celebrate Black History Month. The tradition started 26 years ago and provides a small, but well established window of opportunity to focus on the achievements of primarily...
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4 Corners: An interview with Bryan Bullen and Trevor Bullen
This month we head to the ‘island of spice’, Grenada. A beautiful, tropical idyll I am proud to claim as my maternal ancestral home. I visited Grenada three times during my childhood; the last time...
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SUPERMANDELA. Let the spirit live on!
Although I never had the privilege of meeting ‘Madiba’, I was fortunate to be in South Africa in 1994, just a month before South Africa’s first ever multi-racial elections since the Apartheid regime...
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4 Corners : An Interview with Errol Donald AKA Pride
This month, while we face the winter blues of New Year, we stay home in London and in the warm company of someone I have been blessed to call a friend for more than 30 years. Mr Errol Donald, AKA...
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A Super Hero Identity Crisis
Lately, I have been thinking a lot about ‘superheroism’. Partly, because of my Afro Supa Hero exhibition currently on display at the V&A Museum of Childhood, that is centered around my personal...
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Nine Fine Design Pioneers
This month, in recognition of the US celebration of Black History Month, Four Corners breaks from convention to profile not one person, but nine people. Taking a moment to reflect on some of the...
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4 Corners: An Interview with Barrington Braithwaite
This month we head to a very unique part of the Caribbean, Guyana. It is unique in the fact that it is not an island, but a sovereign state situated on the northern coast of South America. Historically...
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4 Corners: An Interview with Mo Woods
If race equality progressed at the same rate as technology, we’d be living on an amazing planet right now. Yet, here we are in 2014 and there is little doubt that the playing field for people of...
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4 Corners: An interview with Emory Douglas
As a black teenager growing up in East Sheen, I was inspired by the historical contribution of the Black Power and Civil Rights Movement in the US, and influenced by leading black political figures...
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4 Corners: An Interview with Carolyne Hill
I first encountered the work of Carolyne Hill, this month’s profiled designer, at the Black Cultural Archives, the UK’s first and foremost Black heritage institution, which was recently rebranded and...
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4 Corners: An Interview with Lemi Ghariokwu
According to the lyrics of the late, great pioneering Afrobeat musician and cultural icon, Fela Kuti, ‘Music is the weapon of the future’. If that’s the case, then this month’s profile designer’s work...
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4 Corners: An Interview with Bro Ben
As October and another British Black History Month draws to a close, it gives me cause to reflect on the years since its inception in 1987. Culturally and technologically the changes in our society in...
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4 Corners: An Interview with Lowell Thompson
Advertising or ‘Adland’, used to be a home to a plethora of interesting and dynamic characters. I’m not talking about the smooth, elegant types that grace our TV screens in shows such as Mad Men;but...
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4 Corners: An Interview with Gareth Jenkins
This month we find ourselves back in the Caribbean on the region’s fifth largest island, Trinidad or “The Rainbow Island” as it sometimes known due to its wide range of ethnicity, religion and...
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4 Corners: An Interview with Gabrielle Smith
Happy New Year! Or “Nu-Year”, as is often said between people across the African diaspora. For those of you who may not be familiar with this terminology and referencing of the “Nu”, it has found its...
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Salaam Malcolm: 50th Anniversary 1965-2015
1990. ‘Malcolm X Fever’ is at fever pitch. There is a plethora of Malcolm X iconography inspired primarily through the music of legendary, afrocentric and conscious rap/hip hop groups such as, Public...
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4 Corners: An Interview with Lewis Williams
As we approach the close of the US Black History Month celebrations, am extremely proud to celebrate our 2nd anniversary as a regular monthly column with you. This month we pay tribute to both...
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Funk Upon A Time…
Over 34 years ago, back around 1980 I fell deep (and I mean knee deep) in love with P-Funk. I’m 14 years old and listening to Invicta, one of the few London pirate radio stations around at that time...
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1997: Giving A.R.M a helping hand
As MP’s go, Bernie Grant was about as right (morally, not politically) and honorable as they get. A leonine politician who fought tirelessly for his constituents, and who represented people from the...
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