About damilola mojid

Today, I want to tell you about someone I am grateful to the universe for. Rightly, a designer—a talented one, to be precise.

Damilola Mojid started out as a call I didn't want to answer. I was coming back from Lagos that evening. I was about 30 minutes out, and my phone rang persistently.

At the time, Damilola was an NYSC member looking for a specific and easy placement—Neptunn, my startup design agency. It was 2019. and we were still just a small agency, a really small one.

Damilola wanted me to sign and stamp his papers for approval that evening. He'd spoken with my partner before and all I had to do was sign.

"No, it has to be this evening", he said.

Sometime around 6:30 PM, I met with him at our small office (and my house) and signed it—after telling him the conditions of working with us.

Damilola was an experienced designer with experience in graphic design, 3D, illustrations and brand design. While I wasn't wowed by his portfolio at the time, like I told him, I said yes 'cos I was excited at what we could with 3D.

Like almost anyone who's worked me, Damilola probably had some frustrating moments of "what exactly does this guy want?"

I'd remember one time when he and I spent all week working on an event identity project, and last minute—after we had built a presentation and a working theory—I said that we'd start again.

There was another time, our last project together, when I watched him recreate the entire event hall from pictures in less than 72 hours for review with client.

He worked on some of the projects we did with Wande Coal, especially the "Ode Lo Like" cover art, and that was a real piece of work considering the reviews with the management.

Silent and calm, Damilola wears ambition like a coat. You can see it around him. His Danfo project was stellar work—especially his creative rendition of the Lagos culture.

Today, I write about him because I have thought about him multiple times this week at the weirdest moments, and each time, I say a little prayer for him.

Dami is someone you want in your corner, and I'm glad I have him in mine.

I guess today's lesson is "don't let structure make you miss out". Sometimes, risk it.

Ciao.

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