Lekan Jeyifous. Settlements and City Strategies

'Soy un artista y diseñador residente en Brooklyn nacido en Nigeria. En mayo de 2000 recibí una licenciatura en Arquitectura por la Universidad de Cornell, donde mi objeto de estudio fue principalmente investigar el potencial relevante para una variedad de programas informáticos dentro de los campos del arte, diseño y arquitectura. Después de graduarme disfruté trabajando durante 4 años como diseñador senior en dbox, hasta que mis pulsiones creativas me ocuparon a tiempo completo. Desde entonces he tenido la suerte de exponer mi obra en lugares de todo el mundo, así como crear imágenes hermosas para una variedad de clientes increíbles. Me encanta lo que hago y espero que a ti también.

La serie Settlements and City Strategies (Asentamientos y Estrategias Urbanas) esta compuesta por dibujos planimétricos abstractos y paisajes urbanos extrañamente serenos que sugieren los contornos cambiantes de los asentamientos urbanos. Recuerdan una idea de un futurismo degenerado, sin embargo, uno podría encontrar tipologías y escenas similares en lugares como las favelas de Brasil y el norte de África, y en las ciudades superpobladas como Lagos, Ciudad de México o Mumbai. Aunque emitida digitalmente, los dibujos poseen una calidad y textura pictórica resultado de la combinación de bocetos dibujados a mano, texturas industriales, superficies de papel deteriorado y modelos arquitectónicos digitales'. Lekan Jeyifous

The Central-City Settlement

The Outer-City Settlement

The Hydro-City Settlement

The Stepped-City Settlement

Urban Growth Strategies

Lekan Jeyifous
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-'I am a Nigerian-born, Brooklyn-based artist and designer. In May of 2000 I received a Bachelor's degree in Architecture from Cornell University where my focus of study was primarily on investigating the relevant potential for a variety of computer software within the fields of art, design and architecture. After graduating I enjoyed a 4 year tenure as a senior designer at the inimitable dbox before continuing on to pursue my creative compulsions full-time. Since then I have been fortunate enough to exhibit my artwork in venues throughout the world as well as create beautiful visuals for a variety of amazing clients. I love what I do and I hope you do too.

The series contains abstracted planimetric drawings and eerily-serene cityscapes that suggest the changing contours of urban settlements. They represent an idea of a degenerate futurism, yet one might find similar typologies and scenes in places such as the favelas of Brazil and North Africa, and in overpopulated cities such as Lagos, Mexico City, and Mumbai. Though outputted digitally, the drawings possess a textured and painterly quality as a result of combining hand-drawn sketches, industrial textures, surfaces of deteriorated paper, and digital architectural models. 

A constant interplay between digital and analog processes is important in my work, resulting in a highly layered set of documents. The drawings presented here started out as digital images that were outputted, sketched and drawn over, and scanned back into the computer in order to be retraced, textured, and layered'. Lekan Jeyifous