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Hello, I’m Emmanuel, a visual communication designer with a decade-plus of experience, working at the intersection of design and strategy.

Over the past decade, I’ve led design and strategy at scale for social impact. For seven of those years, I led the full spectrum of visual communications for one of West Africa’s leading civic advocacy organisations, helping significantly expand its national reach, impact, and systems.

At the core of what I do is helping you turn complex governance, policy, and human rights stories into clear, compelling, and genuinely accessible visual systems for impact. Every output is designed to drive engagement, reach diverse audiences, and align clearly with organisational goals, so the work you do gets the attention it deserves.

I also have proven capacity to manage high-volume, multi-format design workload while maintaining brand integrity. The work has to make real impact; that’s my baseline.

Beyond design, I provide valuable design education content on YouTube for designers, because learning and giving back is how I keep growing.

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Experience

Deputy, Executive Director

EiE Nigeria, Lagos, Nigeria – (Jul 2025 - Apr 2026)

Provided strategic leadership functions across operations and systems, communications, and external engagement.

Creative Lead (Hybrid)

EiE Nigeria, Lagos, Nigeria – (Mar 2018 - June 2025)

Successfully led, maintained, and improved the visual representation of EiE Nigeria’s relevant information across traditional and digital platforms nationwide. This was achieved through innovative visual strategies for digital campaigns, which significantly drove online engagement across EiE's various digital platforms and causes, increasing reach and impact.
Designed, developed, and managed EiE's digital social enterprise - “BrandFlip”, providing structured support to NGOs, CSOs, and non-profits in the social impact sector.
Led the redesign of the EiE website, resulting in a new, efficient, and effective engagement channel. This is alongside other microsites and web pages for key digital campaigns.
Performed mentorship/coaching of junior designers within the team, doing frequent pair and mob design sessions, to help build/identify individual strengths/tasks where they are most suited/likely to perform.
Managed stakeholders, tracked design issues, and implemented design and operational systems within the unit, while maintaining a database and retrieval system of all designs and references. Also developed a scalable file naming nomenclature that works across units and departments.

Senior Web Graphics Designer

Royal Roots Television (R2TV), Lagos, Nigeria – (Aug 2014 - Feb 2018)

Created conceptual designs and layouts for the channel's website and program web pages.
Led the development and implementation of new and revised creative for TV channel branding, web-based, and mobile initiatives. This helped ensure that content was logical and easily accessible to users.
Played a key role while collaborating with team members to manage and maintain R2TV’s design process and implement design specifications.