Saki Mafundikwa: Ingenuity and elegance in ancient African alphabets
사키 마푼디크와(Saki Mafundikwa): 고대 아프리카 알파벳의 독창성과 우아함
Saki Mafundikwa wrote the book on Africa’s graphic design heritage -- then opened a school of graphic arts in his native Zimbabwe. Full bio
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(Zimbabwe Institute of Vigital Arts)
매우 중요한 부분이고,
내면을 보라고 가르칩니다.
디자인한 포스터가 있습니다.
과거로부터 배우라는 뜻이지요.
살아남아 사용되고 있습니다.
알파벳이랑은 조금 다르죠.
1800년대 이전부터였습니다.
직관적으로 이해하기 때문에
많다는 이론을 입증합니다.
기록된 것으로 추정되며
거장의 작품들을 읽어야 할 때입니다.
이룰 수 있도록 하기 때문이죠.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Saki Mafundikwa - Graphic designerSaki Mafundikwa wrote the book on Africa’s graphic design heritage -- then opened a school of graphic arts in his native Zimbabwe.
Why you should listen
In his book Afrikan Alphabets, Saki Mafundiwaka includes a Ghanaian pictograph meaning “return to the past” This is exactly what he did in 1997 when he cashed in his publishing job 401(k) and left New York to open the Zimbabwe Institute of Vigital Arts (ZIVA) in Harare. (“Vigital” denotes visual arts taught using digital tools.)
As a kid growing up in Zimbabwe, Mafundiwaka loved to sketch letterforms he saw in books and magazines, but he didn’t know graphic design was a career option until he arrived in America. "Sometimes you have to leave home,” he says, “to discover yourself.” He opened ZIVA to pay it forward. “The dream,” he says, “is for something to come out of Africa that is of Africa."
In 2010, he made the film Shungu: The Resilience of a People, a compelling narrative of the strategies ordinary people use to survive in Zimbabwe today.
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