Archive for the ‘AFRICA’ Category

YARA PROJECT IN ICELAND SCHOOL

My student Yara is completing her project in the school in Iceland. This is a coposition of material that brings dialogue that brings information and stories about culture and visual language. The piece with the project description and text presentation. The most funamental material is the book that is being displayed with the project.   […]

April 27, 2013   Posted in: AFRICA, ARCHITECTURE, ICELAND, ISAC - KHiO  No Comments

MORE ACTION IN MOZAMBIQUE

Klass meeting planning project and starting operations. Guests from our Norway school and local students and teachers in Maputo Presentation and dialogue from students. Collaboration between ISArC and KHiO (http://www.khio.no/Norsk/Design/) The projects are going well among the local gang. We wait for more information later but fundamental is the participation and collective learning from one […]

April 18, 2013   Posted in: AFRICA, DESIGN, FASHION, ISAC - KHiO, MOZAMBIQUE, SUSTAINABILITY  Comments Closed

FIRST GRADUATION IN ISARC – FIRST ACADEMY OF ART AND DESIGN IN MOZAMBIQUE

There are happy and fundamental days for the first graduation in ISArC in Mozambique. The program has run over three years now and the first graduation took place on Friday 30th of November 2012! Congratulations to all! Here are some images from the event! Here are some images from our work there over the time. […]

December 6, 2012   Posted in: AFRICA, ART, DESIGN, FASHION, ISAC - KHiO, MOZAMBIQUE  Comments Closed

FASHION FROM AFRICA OR . . . . ICELAND?

Fashion comes from all over and goes all over. Where does it start and where does it end? On the web I see these amazing outfits from Africa. Keep it up I just say. See here Mundi, an Icelandic fashion designer. Tweet This Post

May 21, 2012   Posted in: AFRICA, ART, DESIGN, FASHION, MOZAMBIQUE, PONDERINGS  Comments Closed

ANE MAKING PRINTS

Ane (here is her blog) and me have been in projects together and it has been interesting to follow how she has developed more and more into traditional methods in a school full of computers and clever digital things. This to me seems very much where very many of my students are going while not […]

March 19, 2012   Posted in: AFRICA, ART, DESIGN, PONDERINGS  Comments Closed

EXPERIMENTATION IN GRAPHICS IN MOZAMBIQUE

We had one more project in ISArC in Mozambique in the end of the year. The first week of summer holiday was damaged by our short term workshop in computer graphic design and in clothing tayloring. Håvard Steensen, a graphic designer from our school in Oslo and Dagfinn Skoglund a fashion design teacher in the […]

February 1, 2012   Posted in: AFRICA, DESIGN, FASHION, ISAC - KHiO, MOZAMBIQUE  Comments Closed

DESIGN DEVELOPMENT IN MOZAMBIQUE

I am returning from one more stint in Africa, or in this case Mozambique, where I came first time almost 5 years ago. I have been involved in developing and establishing the first design and art school in the country on university level, where we just finished the 5th semester of teaching aiming for the […]

December 8, 2011   Posted in: AFRICA, DESIGN, ISAC - KHiO, MOZAMBIQUE, PONDERINGS  Comments Closed

DESIGN WORKSHOP IN MOZAMBIQUE BECOMES TRADITION

The digital class where the students experimented with layers and compositions in photoshop and illustrator. We have had regular workshop with the design students in ISArC in Maputo. This time the workshop was directed as very technical and practical, especially in fashion and graphic design. The guests from my school in Oslo this time were DAGFINN […]

December 3, 2011   Posted in: AFRICA, DESIGN, FASHION, ISAC - KHiO, MOZAMBIQUE  Comments Closed

FIRST EXHIBITION OF ARTISTS FROM ISARC

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November 27, 2011   Posted in: AFRICA, ART, ISAC - KHiO, MOZAMBIQUE  Comments Closed

DR HANS ROSLING WAS A DOCTOR IN MOZAMBIQUE AND EXPLAINS

One of my favourite social workers came to Maputo and spoke about results and development changers from the time when he worked here. I recommend. Tweet This Post

November 24, 2011   Posted in: AFRICA, ISAC - KHiO, MOZAMBIQUE, PONDERINGS  Comments Closed

SAMUEL DJIVE IN MAPUTO EXHIBITION

One of my students in Maputo, Samuel Djive has opened an exhibition of his work in Franco in Maputo. There is lots of entertaining work there with formal experimentation and love for mixture of objects and form. In my opinion this is one of the better exhibitions I have seen in Franco for a while. […]

November 22, 2011   Posted in: AFRICA, ART, DESIGN, ISAC - KHiO, MOZAMBIQUE  Comments Closed

DOCANEMA MAPUTO

  DOCKANEMA is an annual international documentary film festival held in Maputo, Mozambique. The first edition was held September 2006, and included more than 70 films. The festival is produced by the Mozambican production company Ebano Multimedia, in association with AMOCINE (Association of Mozambican Filmmakers). The second edition of DOCKANEMA took place September 14 – 23, 2007 in Maputo, including more than 80 […]

September 5, 2011   Posted in: AFRICA, ART, DESIGN, ISAC - KHiO, MOZAMBIQUE  Comments Closed

ART AND DESIGN HELP IN AFRICA

In 2008 Leonard Shapiro met Italian artist Andrea Mariconti while in Milan and discussed the idea of holding an art workshop for vulnerable children in Cape Town, South Africa. Leonard has an organisation called ‘CRAFTSOUTHAFRICA‘. In 2009 Leonard organized the first workshop with kids in Gugulethu with Andrea facilitating the workshop. This is what is […]

July 19, 2011  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: AFRICA, ART, DESIGN  Comments Closed

JOACHIM HUNDEN WORKING IN FRANCE!

Volcom Job. Have a look here. One of my students from Oslo just got a job. This is always nice, and especially when they get a job in a place that is doing worth while things. In my opinion anything that works against boredom is good so I support Joachim and his gang greatly. Can […]

July 3, 2011   Posted in: AFRICA, DESIGN, FASHION, ISAC - KHiO, MOZAMBIQUE  Comments Closed

SKETCH BOOKS MADE IN ICELAND

Whatever there are technical advances in design method or tools, the sketch book is always the fundamental tool for creativity and design method. It is there where we explore possibilities, like those that we find out that they do not work or could be improved. I started using the sketch book in my teenage years […]

June 22, 2011  Tags: , ,   Posted in: AFRICA, DESIGN, ISAC - KHiO, MOZAMBIQUE  Comments Closed