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Résumé of Akintomiwa
Ojedele.

Senior Brand Designer & Creative Lead

Lagos, Nigeria · UTC+1 · Working worldwide

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PDF · 2 pages · A4

events branded
25+
designers and a videographer led
3 + 1
Akintomiwa seated at a bright desk with design materials.Akintomiwa in a warmly lit creative studio.

Summary

Brand designer and creative lead with 10+ years across identities, campaigns and live experiences, starting out as a freelancer in 2016. Created Coast’s current identity and guides its social and campaign direction. Design Lead at Jobberman Nigeria, covering creative direction, team leadership and event branding. Earlier work includes Faramove’s logo, BetrWorkr’s visual direction and communications at The New Church.

Where I’ve worked.

May 2025 to present

Design Lead

Jobberman Nigeria · Lagos, hybrid

  • Leads a team of three designers and one videographer across campaigns, brand communication and events.
  • Has branded 25+ events in multiple Nigerian cities, sharing the design work across the team.
  • Developed the Mainland and Island creative direction for Lagos Career Fair, extended into event zones, environmental graphics and wayfinding.
  • Proposed the Partners’ Convening Story Room. Oversees event production, vendor coordination and design quality with internal teams.
Stacked message cubes beside a yellow danfo graphic on a stageAttendees around a floor game with colourful onboarding walls
2021 to 2025

Creative Designer

Faramove · Lagos

  • Designed the logo and early visual identity, using opposing arrows to show movement between two points.
  • Produced social media and campaign pieces within a blue and green visual system.
Faramove brand book cover with white lettering and a bright green arrow mark on blue
2016 to 2021

Freelance Designer

Self-employed · Lagos

  • Took on freelance design projects from 2016, first while studying at Obafemi Awolowo University, then full time until moving into in-house brand roles.

Brands I’ve built.

Coast brand guidelines cover: Nice rate, fast pay, on a deep blue field with looping line art
Creative Lead

Coast

Brand identity, social and campaigns for a crypto exchange and digital financial services. Worked on it from the start, through several logo iterations to the current mark and visual identity.

See the project ↗
BetrWorkr identity on a billboard: a stacked black wordmark, a green underline and a blue values panel
Visual direction and brand architecture

BetrWorkr

Visual direction and sub-brand architecture, including Kaizen, for a tech and fintech recruitment platform. One connected identity across digital and physical pieces.

See the project ↗
Unshackled campaign poster with large gold lettering, a wooden chair and caution tape
Head of Communications

The New Church

Visual storytelling for campaigns including “The Honor Code” and “When Your Time Comes”, with photo manipulation, expressive typography and symbolic imagery.

See the project ↗

Skills and tools.

Brand and campaigns

  • Brand identity systems
  • Brand architecture
  • Brand guidelines
  • Art direction
  • Visual storytelling
  • Integrated campaigns
  • Social media design

Leadership

  • Creative direction
  • Team management
  • Creative briefing
  • Stakeholder communication
  • Content strategy

Live experiences

  • Event branding
  • Event production oversight
  • Livestreaming
  • Videography
  • Sound and lighting coordination
  • Stage setup
Tools
  • Adobe Illustrator
  • Photoshop
  • InDesign
  • Figma
  • Affinity
  • CorelDRAW
  • Claude
  • ChatGPT

Education

2014 to 2018

B.Sc. Management & Accounting

Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria

Talks and writing.

The Business of DesignTalk · Figma Makurdi ↗Notes from the journeyWriting · Medium ↗

Interests. Travel, visual storytelling, and conversations about the craft and business of design.

Open to remote-first, full-time and contract roles.

Brand identity, guidelines, event branding and creative direction, from Lagos to wherever the team is.

Message me on WhatsApp ↗Download résumé (PDF) ↓

Or email ojedele.akintomiwa@gmail.com

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