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ARCHIVE
A digital museum documenting Nigeria’s creative history across photography, music, fashion & design.
Owolabi Joshua
· Updated Oct 2026
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Overview
Nigeria’s creative history — its photography, music, fashion and design — is scattered across private collections, old magazines and fading memory. ARCHIVE brings it together in one place, so anyone can explore the people and work that shaped the culture.
My role
- •Information architecture: organising four disciplines into collections, eras and people that visitors can move between freely.
- •Visual direction: an editorial, gallery-like interface where the work leads and the UI steps back.
- •Design system: reusable components and tokens so new exhibits can be added without redesigning pages.
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Key decisions
- •Photography, Music, Fashion and Design are the front doors, with eras and people as filters.
- •Exhibit pages read like a curated story, mixing long-form text, media and artefact cards.
- •Neutral surfaces keep colour for the archive’s images, not the interface.
What’s next
The full case study — research, flows and the design system — will be published on Behance. Until then, the links above share the work in progress.
