MINKISI
A private computer for family life.
Concept + Research + Design + Physical Making + Technical Direction
Didier Akinlabi Osias
World Builder +
Systems Thinker
Didier Osias is a Baltimore-born and based designer and creative technologist. An NYU Integrated Design & Media graduate, he runs Griot, a design studio and creative technology practice.
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01 – An Ecology of Making
Listen. Synthesize. Cultivate.
Making a good object is only part of the question. I am interested in what happens around it: who learns, who is remembered, what gets carried forward, and what the process asks of us.
01Listen
02Synthesize
03Cultivate
02 – Griot
A working ecology
Griot is where this ecology of making becomes a working structure. Listen, synthesize, cultivate shapes one family across Griot Studio, Griot Press, and Griot Market. Studio develops worlds and systems. Press carries ideas through publications and images. Market gives objects a way to enter everyday life.
Enter Griot03 – Selected Work
Case studies
EUSEXUA
The album's language had to hold across every object.
Studio – Office Ben Ganz
Role – Research + Design Development
Role – Research + Design Development
USM Midtown
A precise system made room for softness, humor, and disorder.
Role – Photography + Visual Direction
PIN-UP Issue 37
Nine hand-built covers photographed on one repeatable rig.
Role – Art + Technical Direction Assistance
Cooper Hewitt Making Home
Research, identity development, and exhibition graphics for Making Home.
Smithsonian Design Triennial
Role – Research + Design Development + Production Support
Role – Research + Design Development + Production Support
05 – Selected Index
Five ways into the work
Working to create a relational life.