Oluseyi Peter Isingbadebo
Textile Design BA Hons
London Metropolitan University
Specialisms: Textiles - Mixed Media / Digital Design / Textiles: Fashion/Interiors
Location: London, United Kingdom
Oluseyi Peter Isingbadebo
First Name: Oluseyi Peter
Last Name: Isingbadebo
Specialisms: Textiles - Mixed Media / Digital Design / Textiles: Fashion/Interiors
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My Location: London, United Kingdom
University / College: London Metropolitan University
Course / Program Title: Textile Design BA Hons
About
Born and raised in Italy, Seyi ( aka Beboz) is one of the faces of London Metropolitan University’s students.
Growing up near Florence, Prato, Beboz ended fashion design studies at college to move to London in 2015. As a millennial, he’s always been looking for a sense of belongingness by questioning past and future, reasons that made him believe in creating his platforms providing textile designs.
Through the lens of his Nigerian and Italian background, Beboz dreams of discovering his cultural roots, proposing a more forward-thinking approach with the idea of creating a middle ground where tangible and intangible reality coexist.
“My work wants to be seen as a time machine by recreating a futuristic utopia where the Past and Future collide”.
In the past three years, Beboz based his work around the entanglement between textiles and modern technology by offering a captivating and more mature perspective of his childhood. Using music and his nostalgic memories as a vehicle to rediscover his creative instinct, the textile design student managed to produce his Final Major Project in two separate segments yet in relationship with one another: WHITE NOISE and UNMUTED
WHITE NOISE & UNMUTED projects
WHITE NOISE This project wants to look at how innovation and new technologies have inspired and enabled modern-day society to get access to different platforms and ways of communication. To evoke the idea of interconnection between textile patterns and modern devices, this segment wants to challenge the human eye by examining computers, and any sort of form of communication equipment, through their internal parts in the exploration of alternative materials such as copper and wires. The colour palette suggests immediately a sense of pre-historical artefacts opening a discussion about the importance of human history and language exchange over time. Inspired by the idea of binary code language, Beboz wants to give homage to the "hidden figures" of the past that made possible language transitions by looking at the Rosetta stone as an archetype of encrypted language. UNMUTED What is modern language? Considering how the exchange and passing of information have evolved human communication and interaction, Beboz sees music as the pioneer of his creative endeavours. Music transcends barriers and languages, providing a universal means of exchange beyond human words. This series of work has been crafted to forge a connection between music language and textiles, aiming to explore cymatics visualizers as an abstraction and example that allows for the translation from waves and music frequencies into tangible shapes and colours. Mesmerized by the abstract forms that music can generate through Windows Media Player, Beboz's design process led him to redefine shibori, focusing on the sense of depth and resistance achievable through these traditional techniques. The designer aims to argue the concept of “permanent record" to encourage people to view his textiles not only as an outcome but also as a record of the design process itself. Please share and watch my video introduction filmed and directed for a competition early this year.
