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Sinatra Chumo

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2024 , didn’t do nothing but get dark eye-circles and [buildMyWrld] by @_.sinatra

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2 years ago

Cleansing .

African Hair•Culture •Religion

Open to interpretation.
Loosely based on the book by @k.onji with the same title

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#digitalart #illustration #newcomma #NCCFund @new.comma by @_.sinatra

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4 years ago

"Karibu Nairobi: stamped and approved" is a design study that reimagines what it means to document a place honestly; through the tiny, overlooked canvas of postage stamps.

when was the last time you really looked at a postage stamp?
they used to be tiny storytellers, miniature ambassadors carrying a country's pride, history, and identity across borders. but somewhere along the way, we stopped updating the story.

this project asked: what if kenyan stamps reflected our actual reality? not the sanitized, tourist-friendly version, but the Nairobi we live in.

Last frame,
kwaheri Nairobi, Karibu Kilifornia picture used ft @activeboyswrldwide

#design #designstudy #graphic #graphicdesign #art #stamp #stampdesign #stampdesigner by @_.sinatra

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2 years ago

24! Becoming.

#mixedmedia #design by @_.sinatra

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a month ago

🍼Been a month with Cry Baby and it still hasn’t left rotation.

two alternate covers for Cry Baby — @vincestaples
concept + design: sinatra chumo
Exploring mamy culture and baby sam’s tantrums.

original illustration: @yaiagift
art direction + custom type: @groteskito

#albumartwork #vincestaples #graphicdesign #coverartdesign #crybabyalbum by @_.sinatra

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3 months ago

Karibu Nairobi: Stamped and Approved asks a simple question with sharp consequences: what happens when a nation’s official image no longer matches the reality its people live?

“I was drawn to the stamp because of that gap between official narrative and lived experience.”

In this series, Nairobi-based multimedia designer Sinatra Chumo ( @_.sinatra) reclaims the postage stamp as a site of cultural critique. Once used as miniature ambassadors of national identity, stamps become, in his hands, a way to document the Nairobi that official symbols rarely hold in full, from inequality and political tension to the improvisations that keep the city running.

Working within the visual language of mid-century philatelic design, Chumo draws on period typography, distressed textures, archival palettes, and the formal structure of the stamp itself. The works look official, and that is what makes them land, exposing the distance between branded identity and lived experience rather than projecting a polished national myth.

For Chumo, the project is not about cynicism but about honesty, about what becomes visible when design stops smoothing things over and starts documenting what is actually there.

Read the full Q&A with Sinatra Chumo at the link in bio.

Images courtesy of the artist.
Credit: Sinatra Chumo, Karibu Nairobi: Stamped and Approved (2025/2026). by @_.sinatra

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5 months ago

what kind of friends we are a year later. birthday fest tickets available on @mookh.africa & via the link in our bio 🩵💙

director @youngmcdonalds
producer @debbiebosiboriiiiiii
photographer @channel.fay
muse @thepurpleflacko
📍 @thevillagecreativegroup_ke by @_.sinatra

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5 months ago

Outtakes from trip to Egypt.
Frank Ocean — Close to you

#sonyalpha #egypt #travel #cinematic #blonde taken in Cairo, Egypt by @_.sinatra

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7 months ago

Frans Sinatra circa ‘23 by @_.sinatra

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8 months ago

JOGOO WA SHAMBA WAWIKA MJINI

Poster art campaign for @199xorg
@weare.thestation @afrika.housekenya

#poster #posterdesign #art #kenya by @_.sinatra

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8 months ago

‘MATWANA THROUGH THE STAGES’ by Sinatra Chumo.

We spend almost all our lives in transit, both physically and metaphorically, across different stages. For the average Kenyan, this movement is through and in matatus.

For our first EA Rap show, our art director @_.sinatra curated the ’Matwana Through the Stages’ series, exploring transition, growth, and movement as an ode to Kenyan matatu culture. by @_.sinatra

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a year ago

Dot On the way to ‘say drake?!’#

#collageanimation #collage #aftereffects #collageart #mixedmedia #digitalart #gnx #kendricklamar by @_.sinatra

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a year ago