wuruwuru is a community studio from Lagos. We’re an internet-based non-profit collective that works with independent creators to fund, design, produce and distribute passion projects. We educate and sustain creative talent by building communities of practice to create spirited works of art. The studio is starting a new life as…

I’m slowly building an audience for the studio — as planned. It’s a healthy mix of serendipity and being less afraid to put myself out. Very curious to see what this looks like by year-end. Album Cover Bank We completed the website for the archive (albumcoverbank.com) in July and organised a Show &…

Album Cover Bank in an archive of Nigerian album covers from 1950s to date. It currently has over 5,000 covers, and it provides a unique and comprehensive view of the evolution of Nigerian album art. The project first began as an exploration of the relationship between graphic trends in Nigerian…

Hanky Panky cost (~ $18k) to produce over 2 years, while E Dey Happen cost N1.4m (~$2k) over 4 months. The major difference was the cost of animation: the original animators for HP dropped off, and we had to hire a new team, so we ended up paying twice. The…

April was tres interesting. We published the Hanky Panky documentary, started using Instagram, kicked off Feel Good, and did some work on Album Cover Bank, Spectrum and Roses Roses. I also talked to more people about the studio and got a lot of good advice. Thanks to Emmanuel, I discovered…

My friend shared this post on Instagram about a workshop called MIFA, and I was really intrigued. Basically, the French embassy in Nigeria and the international animation festival, Annecy teamed up to choose six projects for a three-day workshop, and the goal was to gather experts who really knew their…

Over the next few years, the plan is to evolve the studio from a one-man company into a non-profit co-op owned and run by members. If successful, I imagine other people can use similar models to create and sustain creative communities that play and grow together. Operations wuruwuru will produce work…

The studio has hosted three events in the last couple of months: Show & Tell — a presentation of design projects from wuruwuru and friends (”the spectrum”). It was held in December at MILIKI, took a few weeks to plan, and cost about NGN 4m to produce for 80 guests. …

If you haven’t, read the manifesto first. Act 1 of wuruwuru crescendo’d at the Show & Tell last December when we presented Hanky Panky, E Dey Happen and LUDO to an audience for the first time. It marked the end of two years of production experiments. Since then, Daniel has…