Nontsikelelo Mutiti

thumb|Re publica Accra 18 – Day 1 (46300659242) (cropped)Nontsikelelo Mutiti (born 31 August 1982) is a graphic designer, artist and educator. Her work focuses on web design, video, print, and book art. She often includes hair braiding in her design work, and is "interested in the nuanced differences between black cultures". Quotes The cultures within the space now known as Zimbabwe do not have writing systems that are formally recognized. There were pictograms painted on rock faces or walls and also beaded adornment with codified meaning. I was not taught about any of these ways of articulating myself. Writing and reading has always come with this colonial layer, even when we are reading local languages typeset using roman characters. My way of articulating myself has come with this colonial layer of using English, using written form, and reading texts that are set in global characters. I come into a space of teaching, I’m thinking about typography and letterform from that position. Thinking through publications like Saki Mafundikwa’s Afrikan Alphabets, which focuses on and privileges them as modes of established and systematized meaning making and communication. Nontsikelelo Mutiti on Challenging the Eurocentric Traditions in Design The students of this venerable program receive an education unrivaled in vision, breadth, and relevance one that challenges them to exceed their own aspirations. *Pursuing this means that the program itself will continue to promote and advance the creative flourishing of the art and practice of graphic design internationally. Nontsikelelo Mutiti appointed Director of Graduate Studies in Graphic Design In my practice, I try not to look at African material culture as something that is antiquated. I look at them on a continuum of technologies. It could go up up up up up and then this is just free. Nontsikelelo Mutiti;Digital artist External Links Category:1982 births Category:Living people Category:21st-century Zimbabwean women artists