Styles Osunde

Styles Osunde — Creative Director — Bilbao

Creative direction for festivals brands films communities festivals that refuse to be boring.

I shape the idea, then I film it, draw it and stage it. One Afrofuturist eye across the whole project, from first sketch to opening night.

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Clients

Método BINI
Gubi Lab
KOOP SF34
Haaly Pular
Asociación africanista Manuel Iradier
Cáritas Gipuzkoa
Asociación Kultura Bendera Elkartea

Selected cases

Every project holds its own films, photos and illustrations. One vision, many formats.

01 Vitoria-Gasteiz · 3 editions

Afrikaldia

The Basque Festival of African Cinemas.

Every year I film and photograph the full week of the festival. In 2024 I also designed the official poster.

Film Photography Poster design 2024
From the 2026 aftermovie
Afrikaldia 2024 festival poster: three children leap toward a sky of paper planes An award winner holds the Afrikaldia prize card in front of the festival wall
A Método BINI shipping-container shop with its awning open in a Bilbao square Método BINI web page for chapter 02, Alta Flama × NoSaJo Método BINI launch: a panel talk in front of the stacked containers with the BINI banner
02 Bilbao · 2026 → In progress

Método BINI

A shop inside a shop, a story in every one.

A platform that pairs local shops with new entrepreneurs. I direct the campaign: twelve numbered stories, each with its own page, film and QR code inside the host shop.

Creative direction Film Web

12 shop-in-shop chapters

01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12

Chapter 01: Librería Anti × Casa NDAO. New films and reels land here as each chapter launches.

03 Bilbao

Gubi Lab

A clubhouse for delivery riders, and a street marketing crew.

A space in Bilbao where riders and delivery drivers rest, recharge their bikes and scooters and get back to work. It is also where they learn to run their own ventures, like postering the city: a riders’ club that doubles as a guerrilla marketing agency.

Creative direction Guerrilla marketing
The Gubi Lab storefront in Bilbao, a rider arriving on a delivery scooter
Gubi Lab
Delivery bikes with yellow Glovo boxes parked inside Gubi Lab
Bako artwork: a rider crossing the spirit realm on a great blue beast
My own world In development

Bako

An outcast boy carries a drum that lets spirits and ancestors speak through him. When the king’s son falls into his own shadow and vanishes into the spirit realm, Bako is the one sent to bring him back.

An African fantasy about friendship, a journey between worlds and two boys falling in love along the way.

African fantasy Queer love Spirit realm
See the Bako drops
Bako artwork: three figures gathered in a dark forest as spirits glow above them

Limited drops

Prints, totes and zines in small runs. Every drop gets its own campaign, made start to finish by me: the same thing I do for brands.

Drop 01

Bako print

Drop 01 · December

Drop 01

Bako tote

Drop 01 · December

Drop 01

Bako zine

Drop 01 · December

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One director, many hats.

What you hire me for

Creative direction

Concept, look and campaign, led from start to finish. Because I also make the work, nothing gets lost between the idea and the result.

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Film

Campaign films, event coverage and promos, shot and graded by me.

Illustration

Posters, artwork and characters rooted in African mythology.

Web & design

Sites and graphics that carry the campaign everywhere it lives.

Events

Curation and staging for festivals and launches.

Styles Osunde in front of a Método BINI container in Bilbao

About

Afrofuturist artist turned creative director.

My illustration practice explores African mythology and diaspora identity. That same eye runs through every festival, campaign and film I direct.