{"id":14175,"date":"2014-04-15T03:24:20","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T22:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=14175"},"modified":"2017-11-09T02:35:17","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T21:35:17","slug":"introducing-saki-mafundikwa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/introducing-saki-mafundikwa\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing…<\/em> Saki Mafundikwa"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Harare, Zimbabwe<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

I feel privileged to call Saki Mafundikwa my friend. I’d like to introduce him and his current initiative with ZIVA to those of you who visit my blog.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Saki is a typographer,\u00a0graphic\u00a0designer, photographer, filmmaker, author of\u00a0Afrikan\u00a0Alphabets<\/em><\/a> (the first book on Afrikan typography)<\/em>, a recent\u00a0TED<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>presenter (great talk!) and yes, an old-school farmer. After a long sojourn through the world of design and media in the United States, Saki returned to his native country where, amidst social and political upheavals, he managed to found and recently expand ZIVA into\u00a0a program\u00a0that\u00a0galvanizes intrinsic design values.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Zimbabwe Institute of Vigital Arts,\u00a0or ZIVA, was started by Saki Mafundikwa in 1999 as the first school of digital design,\u00a0new\u00a0media, and\u00a0visual communication in Zimbabwe.\u00a0Since its birth, ZIVA has produced a plethora of award-winning students and inspired design practitioners.<\/p>\n

ZIVA has recently started an Indeigogo campaign<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong> with a fundraising goal of USD $100,000. These funds will be allocated to changing HP laptops to powerful desktop computers,\u00a0changing Photoshop\u00a0CS2<\/em> to the most current Adobe Suite<\/em> software,\u00a0updating technical design manuals to the latest on the market, to expanding faculty, and last but definitely not least, to providing full scholarships to deserving and talented young designers.<\/p>\n

How can you help? Please share the campaign link<\/span><\/a><\/span> (or this post) and\/or consider donating to this worthwhile cause. Saki and I both “thank you in advance…” from the bottom of our hearts.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Harare, Zimbabwe I feel privileged to call Saki Mafundikwa my friend. I’d like to introduce him and his current initiative with ZIVA to those of you who visit my blog. Saki is a typographer,\u00a0graphic\u00a0designer, photographer, filmmaker, author of\u00a0Afrikan\u00a0Alphabets (the first book on Afrikan typography), a recent\u00a0TED\u00a0presenter (great talk!) and yes, an old-school farmer. After a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,6,7,14,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14175"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14175"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15295,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14175\/revisions\/15295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}