DESIGN

CREATING MYTHOLOGY

Ini Archibong, a Nigerian-American designer based in Switzerland, views his creations as manifestations of the sacred or spiritual. He describes to Y-JEAN MUN-DELSALLE his process of distilling his perception of the world around him into artworks easily accessible to as many people as possible, regardless of background or social situation.

ni Archibong has come full circle. After following Tim Kobe, the creator of the Apple store concept, from San Francisco and New York to Singapore in 2012, the Southern Californian designer joined Eight Inc. to work on the cutting edge of industrial design and the latest technologies. However, deeply aware of the inherent obsolescence of technology, he knew he was destined to make objects