Titi Ogufere | |
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| Nationality | Nigerian |
| Education | Ahmadu Bello University, Dublin Business School |
| Occupation(s) | Interior Designer, Media Proprietor, Entrepreneur |
| Organization(s) | Essential Media Group, Essential Interiors Consultancy |
| Known for | Nigerian Interior Design Pioneer, Founder Interior Designers Association of Nigeria, Founder Interior Design Excellence Awards, Founder Made by Design Show, Founder Design Week Lagos, Publisher Essential Interiors Magazine, Essential Traveller Magazine, Essential Woman Magazine |
| Children | 1 |
Titi Ogufere is a Nigerian interior designer, critical design thinker and publisher at Essential Media Group. She is the Creative Director at Essential Interiors Consultancy, a pioneer interior designing company in Nigeria. The award-winning practice was set up in 2002 and has since established an international identity with a wide variety of projects that are context-specific, innovative, experimental, critical and theoretical.
In 2007, Ogufere founded the Interior Designers Association of Nigeria (IDAN), a body charged with the promotion of excellence practices in the interior design sector of Nigeria.[1] She is also the founder of the Essential Media Group, a publishing company that publishes Essential Interior Magazine; a magazine on urban and contemporary interior design.[2]
Ogufere was elected as President-Elect of the International Federation of Interior Architects/Designers (IFI) in 2017. She was announced as the 21st President of the International Federation of Interior Architects/Designers (IFI) on February 27, 2020.[3] Making her the first President of African descent. During her tenure as IFI president, she championed notable advancements in policy and education, during which she co-chaired a taskforce panel responsible for the revision of the IFI Interior and Architecture/Design Education policy[1][4]