Afrikan Design Aesthetic w/Saki Mafundikwa

971 Marina Way South,Richmond CA 94804

24 March, 2023

Description

Come spend an evening with Zimbabwean designer and educator Saki Mafundikwa as he shares Afrikan culture and aesthetics through art, education, and film. "Magic Happens When You Look Within" Saki believes that the best design is within us and that we tend to look away from the inner source, much to our detriment. We seem to think that REAL design is what you are taught in school, but the magic is inside us! About Saki Mafundikwa Saki Mafundikwa is to be conferred with an Honorary Doctorate degree in July by the University of the Arts London. He is the recipient of the 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award (also known as the President’s Award) from Design and Art Direction (D&AD), the UK’s premier design and advertising organization. He is the founder and director of the Zimbabwe Institute of Vigital Arts (ZIVA) a design and new media training college in Harare. He has an MFA in Graphic Design from Yale University. His book, Afrikan Alphabets: the Story of Writing in Afrika was published in 2004. Besides being of historical importance, it is also the first book on Afrikan typography. It is currently out of print. His award-winning first film, Shungu: The Resilience of a People had its world premiere at 2009’s International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA). He was a speaker at TED2013, he keynoted the first Pan African Design Institute (PADI) conference in Ghana in 2019 and he spoke at TED/PMI in Tanzania in 2019. He has also run workshops for design students in Europe, North, South and Central America, and Afrika. He has been published widely on design and cultural issues and is currently working on a revised edition of Afrikan Alphabets which he hopes will be published in 2023. He lives, works and farms in Harare, Zimbabwe. Cost: Cost: $15-25 Sliding scale... tickets will go live on Eventbrite on 3/5/2023 Student Discount Promo Code: Text 510 629 0705 for code Parking: Plenty of parking in the complex. Map will soon be made available. Check out the space: https://vimeo.com/319978192 (It has now been changed and doesn't have some of the items represented as it has new ownership) Food: There will be catered food options available for purchase. More info to follow!