Here we are again for our annual Black History Month surf, where we have a look at outstanding contributions to art and design from the black community. This year, we’re seeing the most prolific exhibition of art ever! This year includes :
* Lulu Kitololo: Storyteller, Ideamonger, Designer, Artist
* Sabine Pieper : fashion illustration for a generation
* Direct Mail for design etiquette by Wanda Priem
* Kehinde Wiley : legacy of portraitists
* Saki Mafundikwa – Afrikan Alphabets
* Stuff that piques my interest
* Graffiti Turned High Art
and more! Enjoy :
Here we are again for our annual Black History Month surf, where we have a look at outstanding contributions to art and design from the black community. This year, we’re seeing the most prolific exhibition of art ever! This year includes :
* Lulu Kitololo: Storyteller, Ideamonger, Designer, Artist
* Sabine Pieper : fashion illustration for a generation
* Direct Mail for design etiquette by Wanda Priem
* Kehinde Wiley : legacy of portraitists
* Saki Mafundikwa – Afrikan Alphabets
* Stuff that piques my interest
* Graffiti Turned High Art
and more! Enjoy :
Lulu Kitololo: Storyteller, Ideamonger, Designer, Artist
Lulu Kitololo, with 340 followers, has quite a collection of African American, and African art, and makes a good visual study for Black History Month
Like this African fabric link by Pernille ; her African Art links ; and more than 60 boards! WOW
Full story : Lulu Kitololo: Designer, Artist See for more details!
Saki Mafundikwa – Afrikan Alphabets
If you are discussing typography in Africa then you will come across Saki Mafundikwa. Saki Mafundikwa is a Zimbabwean graphic artist that has influenced typography and graphic design all around the world.
Educated with a Masters of Fine Art at Yale and a BA in Telecommunications and Fine Arts at Indiana University, he left the United States to return to Zimbabwe to found the first school of graphic design and new media. Full story : Saki Mafundikwa See for more details!
Sabine Pieper : fashion illustration for a generation
Berlin-based illustrator Sabine Pieper was born in Germany in 1980. Starting her career as a photographer she always kept her interest for drawing and fine arts. After her first daughter was born and after almost ten years of work experience she followed her passion and set her focus on illustration from 2010 on.
Pieper has worked for fashion advertising clients like Vlisco and created illustrations for magazines like Elle UK and Mykromag. Full story : Sabine Pieper See for more details!
MORE TO FOLLOW ON NEXT PAGE . . .
Graffiti Turned High Art
Faith47 is a South African based self taught contemporary street artist. She has international recognition for her work which is inspired by existential questions – ‘the meaning of life’ type questions.
Faith47 is best known as a street artist, or graffiti artist, operating in South Africa and internationally via relevant exhibitions and mural projects. Full story : Faith47 – notobsolete.wordpress.com See for more details!
Kehinde Wiley : legacy of portraitists
Los Angeles native and New York based visual artist, Kehinde Wiley has firmly situated himself within art history’s portrait painting tradition.
As a contemporary descendent of a long line of portraitists, including Reynolds, Gainsborough, Titian, Ingres, among others, Wiley, engages the signs and visual rhetoric of the heroic, powerful, majestic and the sublime in his representation of urban, black and brown men found throughout the world. Full story : http://www.kehindewiley.com/ See for more details!
Direct Mail for design etiquette by Wanda Priem
Wanda Priem writes :
As designers we know about all the bad design out there, thus I created a society that strives to create a culture that always produces good design – The Society of Design Etiquette or SDE. The best way to get good design is to convince people that it adds value and that it’s in their best interests to produce it. The more the market sees and understands the premium that comes from good design, the more it will become the norm. The society has four principles: Always be original, check your guidelines, communicate a clear message and obey the typography rules. Full story : African Digital Art Network See for more details!
Stuff that piques my interest
Graphic Designer Diane Mukiama in Atlanta, GA doesn’t just do her own art, she chronicals and archives interesting and creative items she discovers!
Full story : Diane Mukiama See for more details!
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