Akua Afari

Graphic designer—Photographer—Illustrator—Art person—Design person—cake person

[D&AD @dandad]

A career-making night school for creatives who didn't go to university. That is exactly what D&AD Shift with Google is. We're open for application in London until 20 May. Help us spread the word. Head here to apply: https://t.co/YhR3RKxLcs #dandadshift #joinshift

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

james baldwin: "when any white man in the world says give me liberty or give me death, the entire white world applauds. when a black man says exactly the same thing, word for word, he is judged a criminal and treated like one"

https://t.co/CRrNBjggQk

[nadirah @hinadirah]

“you always told me it takes time. it’s taken my father’s time, my mother’s time. my uncle’s time, my brother’s and my sister’s time. my niece’s and my nephew’s time. how much time do you want, for your progress?” - james baldwin

[Akua Afari @Graphicsandme]

#FontSunday Please Do Not Disturb

[Show\Trial Studio @ShowTrialStudio]

Herbert Bayer – Olivetti Typewriter poster #FontSunday #Easter @DesignMuseum

[One Perfect Shot @OnePerfectShot]

PRINCESS MONONOKE (1997)

Cinematography by Atsushi Okui
Directed by Hayao Miyazaki
We ranked every Studio Ghibli movie: https://t.co/9y2S2IxCEp

[Jason Tselentis @JasonTselentis]

“The Favourite” 2018
Fox Searchlight
director Yorgos Lanthimos

typographer
Vasilis Marmatakis
font Village

@DesignMuseum #fontsunday #separatedtype #spacestype

[Akua Afari @Graphicsandme]

A late entry to #FontSunday today, title page spread of the always beautifully made Port Magazine, Autumn 2011

[Akua Afari @Graphicsandme]

Seeing the most beautiful sky out there and dancing to Soca. It's like I'm basically on an island somewhere at sunset

[Akua Afari @Graphicsandme]

Wolfgang Tillmans filmed 14th Street in 1994 and 1995 NY, when I was just doing GCSE art and had never even heard of him yet. Today is the last day to catch this 90s snippet of NYC life from a window (from WIELS) https://t.co/fRegcM5V2Q

[Ed Pomfret @EdPomfret]

Extract from "Home" by @warsan_shire
For #WorldPoetryDay
♥️♥️♥️♥️ this

Full poem here https://t.co/9TKzLogHzi

[Massimo Di Leo @MassimoDiLeo]

Poesia sui tetti di Roma. (il video non è mio, io proiettavo...) #romamiacanta #iorestoacasa @welikeduel

[Massimo Di Leo @MassimoDiLeo]

Davanti a casa mia c'è una coppia deliziosa. Li ho visti ballare ieri durante il "flash mob canoro". Oggi non ho saputo resistere e mi sono preparato... [video di Aureliano Verità] #romamiacanta #iorestoacasa @welikeduel @GaiaRiposati @aurever

[Akua Afari @Graphicsandme]

Amazing frames from Uproar, short doc exploring the music, tradition, religion and gender of Rumba https://t.co/uPROAgVgnZ

[Martin Herbert @MartinLHerbert]

Starting an art school that’s 50% studio practice and 50% learning to be a plumber or electrician

[Akua Afari @Graphicsandme]

Poster by Jaroslav Sura features one of my fave examples of type and a perfect rough font @DesignMuseum #FontSunday

[Akua Afari @Graphicsandme]

I spent a good part of yesterday laughing at this. Graphic design humour at its peak

[Akua Afari @Graphicsandme]

The best of my random convos with strangers this week: the state of the world with a Canadian woman and history of art studies with a Qatari woman