People and Places
Makola: Commerce, Ambition and Memory
Makola is usually described as a market. It functions closer to a central nervous system for a large part of the city's trade.
Scale and structure
The market operates through dense networks of credit, supply and reputation that are almost entirely informal and almost entirely reliable.
Traders — historically and overwhelmingly women — hold positions of real economic authority built over decades.
What it means to design from it
The honest subject here is not the visual texture of a market. It is ambition, negotiation and endurance.
That is harder to draw, and more worth drawing.
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Accra in My Veins
Accra in My Veins transforms the city's movement, memory and unmistakable character into premium wearable stories. Each design preserves a different expression of Accra—created for those who carry the city wherever they go.
