TDC Awards

Established in 1953, the TDC competition is the longest running, most prestigious, global typography and type design competition. For over 70 years, it has recognized typographic excellence and celebrated new typeface designs in all global languages.

TDC69 Communication Design Jury

Simon Charwey

Founder

African Design Matters, Charwey Studios

Accra, Ghana and New Haven, CT USA

Founder of @africandesignmatters; researching, documenting and collaborating with Black, People of Color, Afro-Caribbean and African creative people, design educators, thought leaders, students, design institutions and studios towards reviving the African renaissance and elevating African knowledge systems, design sensibility, craftsmanship and cultural history. My work, advocacy and contributions with the design community's effort towards "decolonizing design education" and, more importantly, "decolonizing design educators" underpins the idea -- Design has a heterogeneous cultural past but only a homogeneous cultural history. What then can/could design learning be? Design is a cultural response; culture is a design response. Secretary, Design Institute of Ghana (DesignGhana; www.designghana.net), a chapter of the PADI Member, the Pan Afrikan Design Institute (PADI), also known as The Design Council of Africa (www.thepadi.org)

 

 

 

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