Afrikan Alphabets & African Diasporic Design Lineage
SAKI MAFUNDIKWA
Counter to colonial notions of the savage or primitive African, there is a complex, rich and multi-cultural history of African design. From the research of graphic designer Saki Mafundikwa on Afrikan alphabets and graphic languages, this opening video will set the course from African design lineages that travel from the continent to America through the transatlantic slave trade.
RESOURCES
BOOKS, ARTICLES & LINKS
The Decorative Arts of Africa by Louise E Jefferson
African Alphabets by Saki Mafundikwa
Making Africa : A Continent of Contemporary Design
AFRICA : Art of a continent
Tom Phillips
Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
MBUTI DESIGN : Paintings by Pygmy Women of the Ituri Forest
Georges Meurant and Robert Farris Thompson
Thames and Hudson
TEXTILE ART OF THE BAKUBA: Velvet Embroideries in RaffiaSam Hilu and Irwin Hersey with Value Guide
A Schiffer Book for Designers and Collectors
AFRICAN REFLECTIONS : Art from North Eastern Zaire
by Enid Schildkrout and Curtis A. Keim Washington
American Museum of Natural History
ANAFORUANA: Ritual y simbolos de la Iniciacion en la sociedad secreta Abakud Lydia Cabrera
Ediciones R Madrid, 1975
PATTERNS THAT CONNECT : Social Symbolism in Ancient & Tribal Art byCarl Schuster & Edmund Carpenter
Abrams
Secrecy: African Art That Conceals and Reveals Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou by Mary H. Nooter
African Fractals: Modern Computing and Indigenous Design.
by Ron Eglash
1999. 1st edition. New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press.
Designs for the Pluriverse by Arturo Escobar
African Alphabets by Saki Mafundikwa
Making Africa : A Continent of Contemporary Design
AFRICA : Art of a continent
Tom Phillips
Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
MBUTI DESIGN : Paintings by Pygmy Women of the Ituri Forest
Georges Meurant and Robert Farris Thompson
Thames and Hudson
TEXTILE ART OF THE BAKUBA: Velvet Embroideries in RaffiaSam Hilu and Irwin Hersey with Value Guide
A Schiffer Book for Designers and Collectors
AFRICAN REFLECTIONS : Art from North Eastern Zaire
by Enid Schildkrout and Curtis A. Keim Washington
American Museum of Natural History
ANAFORUANA: Ritual y simbolos de la Iniciacion en la sociedad secreta Abakud Lydia Cabrera
Ediciones R Madrid, 1975
PATTERNS THAT CONNECT : Social Symbolism in Ancient & Tribal Art byCarl Schuster & Edmund Carpenter
Abrams
Secrecy: African Art That Conceals and Reveals Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou by Mary H. Nooter
African Fractals: Modern Computing and Indigenous Design.
by Ron Eglash
1999. 1st edition. New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press.
Designs for the Pluriverse by Arturo Escobar
The Intimacies of Four Continents by Lisa Lowe
Epistemologies of the South by Boaventura de Souza Santos
“Culturally Situated Design Tools: Ethnocomputing from Field Site to Classroom.” by Ron Eglash, Audrey Bennett, Casey O’donnell, Sybillyn Jennings, and Margaret Cintorino. 2006. American Anthropologist 108 (2): 347–62. https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.2006.108.2.347.
“Notes for a Cosmopolitical Design: Regarding the Comments from Marisol de La Cadena and Keith M. Murphy.” Tironi, Martín, and Pablo Hermansen. 2018 Journal of Cultural Economy 11 (4): 354–58.
https://doi.org/10.1080/17530350.2018.1483254.
The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies by Tiffany Lethabo King
“Decolonizing Design Innovation: Design Anthropology, Critical Anthropology, and Indigenous Knowledge.” by Elizabeth (Dori) Tunstall, 2013.
In Design Anthropology: Theory and Practice.
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by Adrienne Maree Brown
Design Justice by Sasha Costanza-Chock
Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram
Everywhere Being Is Dancing: Twenty Pieces of Thinking by Robert Bringhurst
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by Bell Hooks
http://modernitycoloniality.com
Epistemologies of the South by Boaventura de Souza Santos
https://doi.org/10.1080/17530350.2018.1483254.
The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies by Tiffany Lethabo King
In Design Anthropology: Theory and Practice.
Design Justice by Sasha Costanza-Chock
Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by Bell Hooks
http://modernitycoloniality.com