Badbitchworkings

Bad bitch. Obsessed with transportation decor found in Nigeria. Posting #danfoart #lorryart a day.

[Badbitchworkings @Badbitchworks]

Lmfaooo 🇳🇬 stand up

[Troy Onyango @TroyOnyango]

african presidents used to write poetry and translate shakespeare. look how far down we’ve fallen.

[Badbitchworkings @Badbitchworks]

Funny enough I’m more pissed cause I had recommended them to someone and the one time they use them gig messes up

[Badbitchworkings @Badbitchworks]

you changed the location of your China warehouse and did not update any customers . Items have been delivered and you’re not even trying to find a way to retrieve the items especially when we want to pay. I need this resolved

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[Badbitchworkings @Badbitchworks]

@GiGLogistics You’re not answering oh. Your China customer service gave us your warehouse address 3 weeks ago to deliver our products to. Now the address has changed and she’s not willing to retrieve it even when we want to pay

[Badbitchworkings @Badbitchworks]

@GiGLogistics answer cause your rep is being rude

[Badbitchworkings @Badbitchworks]

@GiGLogistics you changed the location of your China warehouse and did not update any customers . Items have been delivered and you’re not even trying to find a way to retrieve the items especially when we want to pay. I need this resolved

[Badbitchworkings @Badbitchworks]

I have something to say / talk about and I mean this in no harmful way but it’s been bothering me and I want to talk about it but I’m also too lazy to formally write cause I’m kinda spent

[Badbitchworkings @Badbitchworks]

W the diff forms of media and changes over time. I have stories coming out about people today and them airbrushing lorries and hand painting sign posts or now having printing shops in addition to painting. But what did it look like then when print became cheap or digital emerged

[Badbitchworkings @Badbitchworks]

*In Nigeria oh

[Badbitchworkings @Badbitchworks]

But I think it might be my circle and the resources and experiences we have. I’d really like to know if hand drawn posters were popular for nollywood and also what the connection is between sign artists and nollywood if there is one cause (ashamed to say this) I haven’t had time

[Badbitchworkings @Badbitchworks]

To research into the people who designed the old nollywood covers themselves . Because there’s Yoruba theatre pre nollywood that eerily reminds me of the style of 90s to 20s nollywood covers. It’s also why I’d wish to learn more about sign artists and their journey integrating

[Badbitchworkings @Badbitchworks]

But I think it might be my circle and the resources and experiences we have. I’d really like to know if hand drawn posters were popular for nollywood and also what the connection is between sign artists and nollywood if there is one cause (ashamed to say this) I haven’t had time

[Badbitchworkings @Badbitchworks]

There is a separate discussion of local aesthetics being farmed for storytelling which I think was covered really well here https://t.co/wDOutYFFMv . Could apply to many many scenarios but yeah. I’m done . Pls engage respectfully I’ve come to the same conclusion with person

[Badbitchworkings @Badbitchworks]

And I will write an updated article about how African popular painting aesthetics aka sign art is showing up in design today like notably fashion and film. I wrote about how it shows up in religion here https://t.co/nLzbQbL8Po

[Badbitchworkings @Badbitchworks]

Now all this to say I enjoy this direction it’s taking and what this could possibly mean for conservation efforts. I’m just nitpicky about the details and needed to share this and talk (pls don’t fight me I will cry) . I want to see this in book covers or fmcg or cig packaging

[Badbitchworkings @Badbitchworks]

Also the style is called African popular painting at least from what I’ve seen . Also pls this could just be my age and hand drawn posters for nollywood were actually popular in Nigeria .

[Badbitchworkings @Badbitchworks]

Of course I do have to mention we did have mobile cinemas as well too 40s - 60s and a bustling sign culture but with printing becoming accessible we switched fast. Ghana still actively appreciates their signage culture.

[Badbitchworkings @Badbitchworks]

Indigenous form. Now back to the beginning I guess, what we’re seeing today I think is a distinct remarrying of old nollywood aesthetics w signage aesthetics. In naij they were divorced for a bit or could say never started but In Ghana it was an active thing.

[Badbitchworkings @Badbitchworks]

Religious text at the time (now thing back to what jw and the mission schools looked like in ref to this tweet https://t.co/qm9Um01rQZ [that airbrushed feel but flat]) cause that’s where a lot of them got their first and only training, Europe ads , etc. and also bits of

[SKINDEEP @SkindeepJD]

Jehova's Witnesses graphic designers were ahead of time, AI copied their design aesthetic.

[Badbitchworkings @Badbitchworks]

Era of Commercial artists available to the general public . They were responsible for murals, book covers, sign posts, barbershop art, lorry art and co. They informed the visual style that’s in style rn (I hate this phrase my days). They are influenced by European comics,