Yinka Ilori

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Part of	Before Yesterday We Could Fly, Category:BRIT Award trophy designers
Sex or gender	male
Country of citizenship	United Kingdom
Given name	Yinka
Family name	Ilori
Date of birth	Tuul-nif kiuugu 1987
Occupation	artist, designer, graphic designer
Educated at	London Metropolitan University, St Jude and St Paul's CofE Primary School
Ethnic group	Yoruba people
Has works in the collection	Design Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Award received	Member of the Order of the British Empire, Emerging Design Medal
Official website	https://yinkailori.com
Described at URL	https://designmuseum.org/exhibitions/yinka-ilori-parables-for-happiness, https://www.kings-hill.com/apple/
Copyright status as a creator	works protected by copyrights

A Yinka Ilori (a sẽn dog yʋʋmd 1987 wã) yaa Britɩni wã naand la siglgã siglgã sigla sẽn boond tɩ MBE.^[1] ^[2]^[3]A tʋʋmã yaa a mebuur, a mebuuri, a graafik mebuurã, a textilã, a mebulã la a mebuura. ^[4] A gomda a sẽn da tar a meng ne a Britãni wã la a Nizɛɛrã yell.

New York Times Style Magazine wã wilgame t'a Ilori yaa "bõnd sẽn yaa 'bõnd 12 sẽn naan naan naan naan maan-kɛglem dũniyã' sʋka", la a Abitare yeelame t'a yaa "bʋnd sẽn yaa nin-tɩrsem la sẽn tar pʋ-peelem n get tɩ b naan naan naan maand n naan maan bũmb sẽn tõe n sõng nebã tɩ b bãnge"^[5]^[6]

A VIIM SINGRE

A Ilori bɩɩ a ye Islington, Essex Road sẽn be tẽn-zẽng pʋga, la a kẽnga St Jude la St Paul's Church of England Primary School.^[7]^[8]

A ba wã ra yaa B&Q raab taoor soaba, la a ma ra yaa raab rɩɩb taoor soaba.^[2]^[9]^[10]A Ilori tẽra a roagdbã zo-rãmb la b zakã rãmb sẽn da pakd a sẽn da yaa bi-bõone. ^[11]^[12] A sẽn wa n be Nizɛɛr wã, a sẽn wa n yaa bi-bɩɩg n wa n kẽ tẽngã pʋgẽ wã kɩtame t'a bãng a zakã buud-goamã sẽn yaa bũmb ning n yɩɩd a taabã. ^[4]^[2]

A TUUMA

A Ilori sẽn paam a diplôme wã poore, a tʋma a Lee Broom sẽn yaa gãdga. ^[2] ^[13]A sẽn sɩng a tʋʋmdã, a paama ligd sẽn yaa £3,500 la a sẽn deeg n deeg n deeg a tʋʋmdã. ^[14] ^[15]^[16]A sɩng a tʋʋm tʋʋm yʋʋm 2011, a sɩng ne a sẽn na n dɩk a yam n dɩk a sẽn da tar n zãad n dɩk a kolg-a wã n dɩk a meng n dɩk a togs-n-taare.[18] A sẽn sɩng a karẽn-biisã, a tʋma Marks & Spencer raagẽ wã sẽn be Moorgate. Sẽn paase, b ra pa tõe n dɩk b sẽn da tarã n dɩk b teedã ye.^[17]

A Ilori sẽn tar buud toor-toorã sẽn yaa toor-toore wã kɩtame t'a tʋʋmã lebg sõma. A roagdbã sẽn togs-a a bi-bõonegã sẽn yaa Naayijeer kibarã lebga yẽ sẽn da get a sẽn maandã n kõt yẽ yẽesem. ^[2]^[13]Yʋʋmd 2013 wã, yel-bũnd a yembr sẽn yaa woto wã, "Wõnda yaa tɩ giraf gãagã kaoosame, a pa tõe n yã beoog-daare ye", kɩtame tɩ b tigim tigis a nu sẽn yaa b sẽn da sãam n pa le tarã n lebg bõn-naandsã tʋʋm-paals sẽn yaa toor-toorã, sẽn tar sãnemã "n na n dɩk zãmsgo a woto kambã kibarã pʋgẽ - tɩ d ra segd n bʋd-b ye". ^[4]^[18]^[19]

Sẽn pa kaoos, a maana tʋʋm la a tʋʋm sẽn yaa nin-buiidã ne a sẽn naan wa n naan n naan gãd a nin-soabg zug nin-saabg zug n maan wall-gãosgo; Dulwich Picture Gallery wã sẽn yaa zĩig sẽn yaa sẽk n wilg tɩ yaa "vẽng n wilgd [vẽngã, la maan-no-kãsemsã] la bũmb nins sẽn be dũniyã gill zugu". La a get up stand up at Somerset House, sẽn "pak yʋʋm kobs-sʋk sẽn yɩ ne nin-saadbã sẽn naan maan-noore Biritẽ wã" la b bool-a tɩ "vẽnga la vẽngã zãagrã".^[13]^[15]

A Ilori lugla a luglg tʋʋm yʋʋmd 2015 pʋgẽ. ^[15] Yaa b sẽn get b sẽn maand bũmb ninsã la b get b sẽn get bũmb ninsã yelle.[^[20]^[21]A Ilori sẽn wa n paasda a sullã,^[22] a tõog n maana tʋʋm wʋsg sẽn na yɩl n tõog n tõog n maan maan fasɩ la a meng tʋʋm sẽn na n sõng tɩ b tõog n maan fasɩ. ^[23]^[24]^[25]A sẽn da tʋmd ne a tʋʋmdã yaa Adidas, Kvadrat, Lego, Meta, Nike, Pepsi, la SCP, la a sẽn naan tʋmda ne a tʋʋmdã ne a sẽn tʋmd ne a sẽn boond t'a Chelsea la Westminster Bĩngrã la a Springfield Bĩngr Bĩngdã.^[26]^[26]^[27]^[28]^[4]

Yʋʋmd 2020 wã, a sɩngame n yiis a meng ra-kãnga sẽn maand a meng teedã.[33][30] A paama me London Design Festival sẽn kõ-a a Emerging Design Medalã. ^[29]^[30]^[4]

A Ilori ne a Es Devlin sẽn yaa Britãni wã sẽn naan maan yɩɩr ning b sẽn na n kõ-a yʋʋmd 2021 BRIT Awards wã pʋgẽ wã. ^[31]^[32]

Yʋʋmd 2022 wã, Ilori ra naan n naan zĩ-gũud sẽn boond tɩ Flamingos wã sẽn be Parsloes Park, East London wã.^[33] Yʋʋmd kãng bala, Londr siglgã siglgã sigla a tʋʋm n wilg a tʋʋm 100 sẽn tar a tʋʋmã la "Canary Wharf pipi basket-balã zĩigẽ". ^[34] ^[35] ^[36] A tʋʋmã leb n be sɛb pʋsẽ wala V&A Dundee,^[37] Vitra Design Museum sẽn be Basel,^[38] la Guggenheim Bilbao,^[39] la a be Metropolitaan Museum sẽn be New York wã sɛb pʋsẽ,^[40]^[41] Afrofuturist Period Room pʋga.^[42]^[43]^[44]^[45]^[46]

A TUUM SANA B SEN YAK

2019 Colour Palace, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, UK^[47]
2019 Happy Street, London Festival of Architecture and Wandsworth Council, UK^[48]
2020 Colorama skate park, La Condition Publique cultural centre, Lille, France^[49]^[50]
2021 Laundrette of Dreams, Lego Collaboration, London, UK^[51]
2021 Transparency in Shades of Colour, London, UK^[52]
2021 Bring London Together, UK^[53]
2021 The Sound of Movement, Labrum London, ^[54]Spring-Summer 2022 show, UK^[55]
2021 Lick x Yinka Ilori Maximalist Brights, Wallpaper collection^[56]
2021 sonsbeek20→24 Sonsbeek, Arnhem, Netherlands^[57]
2021 Dodge, Somerset House, London, UK
2021 Promise me memories and I will let you in, Greenwich Peninsula, London, UK
2022 Layers of Movement, Meta, London, UK
2022 The Flamboyance of Flamingos, Parsloes Park Play Area, East London, UK
2022 Filtered Rays, Hotel Estrel, Berlin
2023 From Greener Pastures, Labrum London, Autumn–Winter 2023 show, UK
2023 Public Art Piece, The Rowe (Central House, former London Metropolitan University Cass School of Architecture), London, UK
2023 Types of Happiness, The Line art trail, London, UK
2024 Omi Okun, commission for Art on The Mart, Chicago, US
2024 Shaped to the Measure of the People’s Songs: Reflection in Numbers pavilion, HKW, Berlin, Germany
2024 Slices of Peace, Orchard Park, Kent, UK (with Peter Adjaye)
2025 100 Found Objects, Fulham Pier, London

A SEB N YI VIIGO

2013 It Started With a Parable, Jaguar Shoes, London Design Week
2014 This is Where It Started, The Whitespace Gallery, Lagos
2015 If Chairs Could Talk, The Shop At Bluebird
2022 Yinka Ilori: Parables for Happiness, the Design Museum, London

A SEB N YI VIIG SUL-RAMBA

2014 Africa Calling, Africa Utopia, Southbank Centre, London
2015 Home Affairs, NOW Gallery, London
2015 Making Africa, Vitra Design Museum, Basel. Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
2020 Knit!, Kvadrat, Copenhagen

A SEB A SEN MOONE

Pricegore & Yinka Ilori: Dulwich Pavilion. Dingle Price, Alex Gore, Job Floris, Sumayya Vally, Yinka Ilori Studio, Pricegore. Zurich. 2021. ISBN 3-03860-233-7. OCLC 1224160677.
Reynolds, Jason (2018). For every one. London. ISBN 978-1-9996425-3-2. OCLC 1063638673. (cover design by Yinka Ilori)

SEBTIISE

[1] ttps://www.lego.com/en-gb/aboutus/news/2021/october/launderette-of-dreams

[:0-2] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/jun/14/yinka-ilori-colourful-world-london-nigeria-public-spaces

[3] ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_London_Gazette

[:1-4] 4.0 ^4.1 ^4.2 ^4.3 ^4.4 https://www.cnn.com/style/article/yinka-ilori-studio-design/index.html

[5] ttps://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/04/t-magazine/yinka-ilori-art-design.html

[6] ttps://www.abitare.it/en/design-en/2022/08/27/yinka-ilori-the-power-of-colour/

[7] ttps://www.stjudestpauls.co.uk/news/?pid=21&nid=2&storyid=153

[8] ttps://web.archive.org/web/20230211225453/https://www.theroyalexchange.co.uk/my-city-life-yinka-ilori/

[9] ttps://web.archive.org/web/20230211225453/https://www.theroyalexchange.co.uk/my-city-life-yinka-ilori/

[10] ttps://www.dezeen.com/2021/10/28/yinka-ilori-lego-launderette-of-dreams-east-london/

[11] ttps://www.timeout.com/london/news/designer-yinka-ilori-on-growing-up-in-islington-071921

[12] ttps://www.culturedmag.com/article/2019/05/29/yinka-ilori

[:2-13] 13.0 ^13.1 ^13.2 https://www.ft.com/content/43b88468-6de0-11ea-89df-41bea055720b

[14] ttps://yinkailori.com/about

[:3-15] 15.0 ^15.1 ^15.2 https://www.vogue.co.uk/arts-and-lifestyle/article/yinka-ilori-interview

[16] ttps://www.bonhams.com/stories/31629/

[17] ttps://www.goat.com/editorial/yinka-ilori-london-designer-interview

[18] ttps://www.goat.com/editorial/yinka-ilori-london-designer-interview

[19] ttps://artplugged.co.uk/marks-spencer-teams-up-with-artist-yinka-ilori/

[20] ttps://www.designindaba.com/articles/creative-work/yinka-ilori%E2%80%99s-new-20-piece-homeware-collection-merges-african-and-english

[21] ttps://qz.com/africa/928619/designer-yinka-ilori-uses-chairs-to-tell-the-stories-of-people-who-sit-in-them/

[22] ttps://architecturetoday.co.uk/happy-street/

[23] ttps://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/about/press-media/press-releases/the-colour-palace-pricegore-and-yinka-ilori-chosen-for-second-dulwich-pavilion/

[24] ttps://www.dezeen.com/2019/06/20/yinka-ilori-somerset-house-get-up-stand-up-exhibition-design/

[25] ttps://the-line.org/artist/yinka-ilori/

[:4-26] 26.0 ^26.1 https://www.scp.co.uk/collections/yinka-ilori-collection

[27] ttps://www.creativereview.co.uk/arto-lifewtr/

[28] ttps://www.goat.com/editorial/yinka-ilori-london-designer-interview

[29] ttps://shop.yinkailori.com/

[30] ttps://www.wallpaper.com/design/at-home-with-yinka-ilori

[31] ttps://www.londonmet.ac.uk/news/articles/yinka-ilori-recognised-for-impact-on-design-scene/

[32] ttps://www.wallpaper.com/design/brit-awards-2021-trophy-design-es-devlin-yinka-ilori

[33] ttps://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/01/21/power-to-the-people-londons-new-public-art-is-a-tonic-during-a-gloomy-year

[34] ttps://www.wallpaper.com/design/yinka-ilori-design-museum-display-parables-happiness

[35] ttps://www.floornature.com/design-trends/design-unites-yinka-ilorias-colourful-metaphors-17362/

[36] ttps://www.wallpaper.com/design/yinka-ilori-design-museum-display-parables-happiness

[37] ttps://www.vam.ac.uk/dundee/exhibitions/yinka-ilori-listening-to-joy

[38] ttps://design-milk.com/yinka-ilori-turns-discarded-chairs-into-sculptural-pieces-with-a-story/

[39] ttps://www.design-museum.de/en/exhibitions/detailpages/making-africa.html

[40] ttps://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/afrofuturist-period-room/exhibition-objects

[41] ttps://www3.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/849304

[42] ttps://www.dezeen.com/2022/05/13/colour-design-architecture-yinka-ilori-interviews/

[43] ttps://www.dezeen.com/2020/12/31/david-chipperfield-yinka-ilori-new-year-honours/

[44] ttps://www.designweek.co.uk/issues/4-10-january-2021/ny-honours-2021/

[45] ttps://www.standard.co.uk/homesandproperty/where-to-live/living-in-acton-area-guide-yinka-ilori-ed-sheeran-b978767.html

[46] ttps://www.uca.ac.uk/news/2024/uca-announces-2024-honours/

[47] ttps://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/2019/may/dulwich-pavilion-2019-the-colour-palace/

[48] ttps://www.superblue.com/artists/yinka-ilori/

[49] ttps://www.dezeen.com/2020/07/14/yinka-ilori-colorama-skate-park-la-condition-publique-lille/

[50] ttps://hypebeast.com/2024/2/yinka-ilori-x-the-skateroom-collab-capsule-images-release-info

[51] ttps://www.timeout.com/london/news/yinka-iloris-lego-collab-opens-to-the-public-today-102821

[52] ttps://www.sleepermagazine.com/stories/events/design-london-unveils-talks-programme/

[53] ttps://www.stirworld.com/see-news-yinka-ilori-restyles-london-s-pedestrian-crossings-with-vivid-colours-for-ldf-2021

[54] ttps://labrumlondon.com/pages/about

[55] ttps://hypebeast.com/2021/9/labrum-london-ss22-london-fashion-week-runway-info

[56] ttps://www.idealhome.co.uk/news/lick-x-yinka-ilori-maximalist-brights-collection-286110

[57] ttps://hypebeast.com/2021/9/labrum-london-ss22-london-fashion-week-runway-info

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