About us

Turning Curiosity Into Craft.

The sister institution of Aries Design Studios, a design and production studio since 2016.

Aries Design Academy was established as the sister institution of Aries Design Studios, a creative studio with a proud heritage of almost a decade of excellence in design and production since 2016. Built upon the practical, hands-on foundation and professional standards of the Studio, the Academy was created to extend that legacy by providing a world-class creative learning environment that prepares students for success in an ever-changing creative industry.

The vision behind Aries Design Academy is rooted in the belief that everyone deserves an education that turns curiosity into craft: one that nurtures creative confidence, builds practical competence, and prepares learners not just to understand design, but to earn a living from it.

Our vision

A world where creative talent, wherever it starts, has a clear, practical path to becoming a real, sellable skill, and where every learner who walks through our doors leaves equipped to earn, grow and lead in the creative economy.

Our mission

To equip learners of all backgrounds and experience levels with practical, industry-ready creative and technical skills, delivered through hands-on mentorship, structured evaluation, and real-world project work, both in our fully equipped studio and online, worldwide.

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Our people

Leadership

Nefertiti Nneoma Emezue

Founder & Managing Director

A lecturer in the Department of Fine and Applied Arts at Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu-Alike, Ebonyi State, and a graphics consultant at Aries Design Studios. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Fine and Applied Arts, specialising in Graphic Design, graduating best in her class, and a Master's degree in Industrial Design from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.

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Her areas of interest span graphic design, mixed media art, UI/UX design, digital art, photography, video production, cultural expression, and the intersection of artificial intelligence and art. She is deeply invested in how AI can shape the future of art and serve as a medium for social commentary, cultural preservation and the amplification of marginalised voices, and in its potential to reimagine visual storytelling and democratise creativity in the African context.

As an independent designer, she continues to take on diverse projects, collaborating with a trusted network of professional partners on work of every size and scope.

Andrea Sophie Vróblevska

Director

Director of Aries Design Studios Ltd and Aries Design Academy. She holds an LL.M. degree from the University of Gdańsk in Poland, summa cum laude, and works in nine languages.

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After her barrister's apprenticeship, completed while working for one of the major legal firms in the Gdańsk area, Kancelaria Radców Prawnych i Adwokata Głuchowski Rodziewicz Zwara, she established her own legal firm, winning many cases in criminal, civil and labour procedure, and led the Legal Team of SKOK Stefczyka, a major Polish credit union. She lectured law at two colleges in Gdańsk, Ateneum and Gdańska Wyższa Szkoła Humanistyczna, on the Constitutions of European countries and Human Rights.

She has since been a consultant for the airline Air Berlin and for Swiss Medical Network, and a senior expert at Transcom, advising customers in nine languages.

Instructors

Handel E

Lead Instructor, Tech

Leads the tech courses: coding, cybersecurity and data.