Saki Mafundikwa
Founder/Director of ZIVA, the Zimbabwe Institute of Vigital Arts
Zimbabwe’s first Graphic Design and New Media school in Harare
The Cooper Union School of Art – Visiting professor, Graphic Design
Shona Studio – (own studio) Web design, book design and brochures
Random House – Designer, book jackets, designer – www.fodors.com
The Cooper Union School of Art – Adjunct Prof., Graphic Design ‘94 – ‘96
Freelance:Guggenheim Museum, St. Martin’s Press, Warner Brothers,
Scholastic Inc., Lockhart and Pettus Inc., Island Records
Oct ‘08 ICOGRADA MULTIVERSO Conference, Torino, Italy
May ‘08 Jury member ZGRAF 10, Zagreb, Croatia
Oct ‘07 Design Educator’s Forum of Southern Afrika, CT, RSA
Jun ’06 Congreso de Tipografia, Valencia, Spain
Feb ’06 Tasmeem Doha Design Conference, Qatar
May 05 Typo2005, Berlin, Germany
Aug ’04 ISEA 2004, Helsinki, Finland
Aug ’04 Madison Public Library, Madison, WI, USA
Jul ’04 Typecon, San Francisco, CA, USA
Nov ’03 University of Iowa, USA
Nov ’02 Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT, USA
April ’02 Cooper Union, New York City
April ’02 Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA, USA
May ’02 Indiana University School of Art, Bloomington, IN, USA
Feb ’02 Workshop, Intuit Lab, Paris, France
Oct ’01 California College of Arts & Crafts, San Francisco, CA
Sept ’01 ICOGRADA, Johannesburg, South Afrika
Dec ’00 Paper, International Symposium on Electronic Arts, France
Nov ’00 Graphic Artists from Around the World, Echirolles, France
Aug ’00 With Erik Spiekermann, San Francisco, CA
Jan ’00 Universidad ICESI, Cali, Colombia, South America
April ’99 UNESCO Workshop in Graphic Design and Textiles, Uganda
May ’96 London College of Printing, Visiting Artist Series
Sept ’95 AIGA 6th National Conference, Seattle, WA
Apr ’95 Indiana University School of Art, Bloomington, IN
Sep ’94 Organization of Black Designers, 1st Conference, Chicago, IL
Etapes Graphiques magazine, Paris, France, August 2009
Novum “Afrika Issue”, Munich, Germany, July 2009
AREA 2: Phidon, UK, Jan 2008
Author “Afrikan Alphabets”: Mark Batty Publisher, May 2004
“Harare’s Unsung Type Heroes” eye magazine UK, vol 15, Spring 2006
SocialDesignZine, Andrea Rauch & Gianni Sinni, Lcdedizioni Rome, 2005
Radical Type Design, Teal Triggs, Collins Design UK, 2005
World Graphic Design, Geoffrey Caban, Merrell UK, April 2004
Typography in Afrika (essay): Culture Types, Graphis Books 2003
Communication Arts, Design Annual, 2002
dwell magazine, San Francisco, CA, June 2001
Etapes Graphiques magazine, #72, Paris, France, April 2001
U&lc, NYC, USA, Fall 1999
“Shungu: The Resilience of a People” Official Selection IDFA 2009, Up for Audience Award, Amsterdam, Nov 2009
Yale University School of Art, MFA Graphic Design 1985
Indiana University, BA (Double major) Telecommunications & Fine Arts 1983 |