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noun 1 the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power: the art of the Renaissance | great art is concerned with moral imperfections | she studied art in Paris. â&#x20AC;˘ works produced by human creative skill and imagination: his collection of modern art | [as modifier] : an art critic. â&#x20AC;˘ creative activity resulting in the production of paintings, drawings, or sculpture: she's good at art. 2 (the arts) the various branches of creative activity, such as painting, music, literature, and dance: the visual arts | [in singular] : the art of photography. 3 (arts) subjects of study primarily concerned with human creativity and social life, such as languages, literature, and history (as contrasted with scientific or technical subjects): the belief that the arts and sciences were incompatible | the Faculty of Arts. 4 a skill at doing a specified thing, typically one acquired through practice: the art of conversation. PHRASES art for art's sake used to convey the idea that the chief or only aim of a work of art is the self-expression of the individual artist who creates it. art is long, life is short proverb there is so much knowledge to acquire that a lifetime is not sufficient.

What is the Artboard Magazine about? ArtBoard Magazine is a digital publication that aims to showcase the best of the arts, inspire new artists to the possibilities that art has to offer, give breath to an artist that has lost hope in the arts, provide a platform to share art and add value to art, find networks that appreciate the various arts, make art, especially African-produced art more accessible to the general public in order to express what lies within a brushstroke, in a painting, a dance routine, a sound in a song, a picture, a sentence in a poem, a line in a sculpture, a string of cotton in a fabric, the space left open in a room, to understand what was in the mind of the artist while creating a piece in order to bring the viewer, the listener as close as possible to the art, and to amplify the experience allowing for a greater appreciation of art. In the words of Horace "The art lies in concealing the art". What does the Artboard Magazine try to solve? It is easier to understand the value of certain arts like music because there are platforms that are universally accepted and in place for buying and selling, it is not as easy for paintings, poetry, or dance. And the Artboard Magazine is a platform that offers the artists a place to share what goes into creating artwork or doing an art-form so that the public may better understand the value or the artist and the art. What makes art so special to you? A single artwork can embed a multitude of different messages. Ever wondered if art was to be translated in words?... The stories that would be told?... imagine walking along the streets, How many images do you see

on billboards as you walk down a street? How many songs do you hear on the radio, or stories read in the newspapers? How many articles of clothing do people wear? How many types of dances do you see in an advert? How many different designs of mobile phones or cars exists? These are all derived from art... Art is the fabric of life.

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What can you tell someone that does not understand or value art? The variable nature of art makes it in-eliminable in any type of skill or activity. If you happen to do something exceptional, it means you have mastered the arts of that skill or profession... think about it for a second…there is “The Art of war” this means that the people that practice this art does not go about the war conventionally, they use special strategy while at war…. I believe there is “The Art of laziness” and this strain of laziness can be practiced with the uttermost skill lol! or “The Art of coding, living, helping, caring, etc. Art cuts across all borders allowing us to live and do things in unique and extraordinary ways. What would you say to the public about the Artboard Magazine? The question is wouldn’t you want to know the story behind all these amazing feats of art. The Artboard Magazine gives you all this raw, uncut, and in its purest form and also allows the artists to find value for their art in the real

world. What would you say to the leaders? To the leaders, I would say...‘embrace the arts’.See The reason we travel...is because of the architectural design of these cities and towns. By far Africa has most of the tourism destinations around in the world, but why do people prefer to visit Paris, Italy, or Spain? It’s because of the towns & cites, the architecture, the culture….All these are directly linked to the arts. Let us embrace the arts and see how much character people or towns & cities will have. Do you like music? I love music. I have always dreamt of playing music as a DJ, sharing the feeling I get when I listen to music, I have Dj’d a few times when I was in college for a college first years party(actually opened for a popular DJ I will not mention lol) and some rock parties. I listen to Electronic music, Rock n Roll, Hip hop, Jazz, Indie, Zambian, folk, classical, Afro, Rap, Alternative music, etc...My art has surprisingly always brought me closer to people in music, this has always been been the case wherever I go or live I tend to attract music lovers, Dj’s producers, Rappers, singers, songwriters etc...My dream has always been to play music on a big stage and share the experience, that is what art is; sharing. Art can never exist without sharing, and what better way to do it than through music. I love musicdone by Above & Beyond because they capture, relate and attach themselves with their listeners when they perform, so it's not just them creating a beautiful crescendo but a wholesome feeling that remains in-printed in their lives forever. I liken music to energy because it cannot be changed, but it can be converted from one form to the other, music can convert no movement to a lot of movement, sadness to happiness, confusion to calmness. This gave me the motivation to create GinormousBeats to share music that can change a simple moment into something more. The idea behind GinormousBeats is to share the feeling that is in music and being able to let musicians share their thoughts regarding the music they make. CELEBRATING

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Executive Editor: Nick Banda

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Ambitious Africa Ambitious Africa was founded in 2020 with a goal to initiate and support Nordic and African youth-led large-scale grassroots projects with social impact in Africa. It is an umbrella organization of +20 entrepreneurship societies from the Nordics and young change-makers and organizations across Africa. Within a few months, the initiative has started operations in 21 African countries with plans to spread to all 54 African nations. The organization provides stakeholders with a platform to make relevant connections to develop impactful projects in a specific country, and supports scaling of successful initiatives across Africa. It also offers consulting and impact internships to Nordic students. The initiative is supported by Peter Vesterbacka, angel investor and founder of Slush - the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leading startup and tech event.

Our Story In July 2019, during SuomiAreena, the biggest yearly meetup for Finnish business people and politicians, Peter Vesterbacka and the minister of foreign trade Ville Skinnari talked about how they could bring young people together from Africa and the Nordics.

Left to right: Lauri Hollo from Start North, Peter Vesterbacka an angel investor and founder of Slush, and Ronny Eriksson from Ambitious Africa

Education, Entrepreneurship and Entertainment At the time, Jutta Urpilainen had recently been appointed EU commissioner for Africa. Vesterbacka was then introduced to three business students at Hanken School of Economics - Vincent Forsman, Victor Lindahl and Ronny Eriksson. The young men were building startup incubators in Rwanda at the time through their project Envisage Incubators. Together they came up with an idea to build an ambitious programme for young people in African countries using successful Nordic models for entrepreneurship, education and entertainment. This was the start of Ambitious Africa. The 3 E’s: Entrepreneurship, Education and Entertainment Entrepreneurship, education and entertainment became the three pillars of Ambitious Africa, known as ‘the Triple-E model’. Entrepreneurship was chosen because Ambitious Africa believes making a real impact is essential. It doesn’t matter if you have the best ideas in the world if you don’t work to make those ideas happen in the world. Ambitious Africa seeks to further extend the entrepreneurial mindset outside the domains of startups and into organizations and governments. Ambitious Africa sees quality education, the second pillar, as the foundation for building and sustaining strong societies. Vesterbacka and the Hanken students were determined to harness the key strengths of Finnish education and offer insights learned from over fifty years of education reform. Ambitious Africa offers this knowledge and experience to African societies to strengthen their own societies. Despite it’s successful education system and a thriving young entrepreneurial ecosystem, Finland has a very small population compared to most African countries. How can these insights then be applied to the massive African continent? Even in countries like Mozambique or Cameroon with populations of 20-30 million, people are the most important resource. According to Vesterbacka, when young people come together and combine their bold ideas, skill sets and enthusiasm to make change happen - anything is possible. -Everyone deserves to be educated at a high level. It is not a coincidence that Finland has been ranked the happiest nation in the world. Happiness and education go hand in hand, he says.

Entertainment, the final pillar, can be used to harness the learnings from entrepreneurship and education to engage and inspire massive audiences. With Ambitious Africa’s Arts & Culture network we want to bring together an array of unique voices and talents from all walks of life. We are building a platform to share the work of emerging artists across Africa to a large audience. Keeping up with African Arts & Culture Ambitious Africa’s mission is to highlight and celebrate the uniqueness of Africa on a global platform within the creative industries. The initiative is therefore co-creating and co-publishing magazines to showcase different areas within arts & culture and empower local artists across Africa. We are now calling on creatives to join our growing creative network. We are calling upon fine artists, fashionistas and designers. We are calling upon passionate young African storytellers - whether you are a creative writer, poet or using other forms of literature to express yourself. We are calling on performing artists within theatre and comedy. We are calling on the musical artists, producers and singers and songwriters crafting beats, melodies, lyrics and harmonies that tug on people’s heartstrings. If you are an ambitious artist of any kind eager to showcase your work through our platforms or get involved in upcoming Arts & Culture projects, please get in touch and send us your portfolio/examples of your work along with a short introduction of yourself to hello@ambitiousafrica.org and we will get back to you shortly. Ambitious Africa works continuously to create mutually beneficial, inspiring and dynamic creative and cultural exchanges between students in the Nordics and Africa. With the help of these exchanges and local African creatives, we want more people in the Nordics and globally to understand what’s really going on within the African continent because in all frankness - what is seen on the news rarely provides true flavour. We must bring out a new vision of an empowered Africa - but we need your help. Let’s do this together! Ronny Eriksson, Co-founder & Alina Weckström, Head of Media

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Kay Mwando & mwandosart.international I created mwandosart.international [Mwandos and apply what knowledge I have amassed over Art Dot International] for the sole purpose of time. It has certainly been and always will be an having a record of the growth or metamorphosis interesting journey for me, I always keep in mind of my art. I have been working on several that I am on a journey taking me to the epitome artworks as have been growing and I have been of my art and my life.We are fortunate to be an seeing constant changes in my artworks over in an age filled with so much information and time, with no sense of specific direction.I would tools at our disposal that the only thing that limits not say it that it has not been fun and I am not us from reaching our best is ourselves if we cultitrying to remove the beauty, happiness, motiva- vate a culture of learning, constant improvement tion, and energy that comes from creating a and a search for that inner uniqueness in whattotally unexpected work. ever we do we will amaze ourselves when seeing I believe that is the freedom that art gives one what we have achieved.I believe that working and it helps an artist continue waking up to do with a lot of people that know more than me more art, it also shows how diverse a person is to makes grow and become an even better version be able to shuffle through many ideas, the best of myself that is what creating mwandosart.interexample of such a mind is national has given me. A Leonardo da Vinciand his chance to do just that, many creations of arts and I am constantly correspondinventions, he is renowned ing, liking, loving, hashtagfor some specific creations ging, and following other that everyone sees in their artists to learn from them or minds when his name is even teach others a thing or mentioned.I too wanted to two that I have learned.The have a longer lasting signamagazine is one good ture that will be put to my example of that, the initial work, a message of sorts idea was to create a collecthat says tion of my artworks but as Kay Mwando when I or they say “If you want to go someone saw my work. i fast, go alone. If you want to want to take the driving seat go far, go together”. And to and determine a special justify the reason why my art see full artwork on page 86 direction for my art that was the first to be in the gives the identity of my spotlight is merely that it was the only art collecwork, I believe as an artist we are all trying to tion that was readily available and to set the find that and for me, this is a never-ending theme for coming issues of this magazine. The search, but a never-ending search with a com- next issue will have a new spotlight new artists or pass and map for once, to be able to look back an in-depth look into some of the artists in this from where I started from and be able to share it issue. Overall mwandosart.international growth with someone also trying to find their identity. is largely to the fact that I have been able to work The interesting part of my art journey is that with several brilliant minds out there to be able to my growth in art has not been linear, It has achieve this.The future of mwandosart.internabeen very random because I would say the last tional is to be able to create more art I have had 5 years did not bring out “in my own opinion” a growing interest in product and industrial my most prized work I actually feel I did my design, there is just something about creating a best work about 10 years or so ago when I tangible object that personally fascinates me plus created this artwork.However, what has been my mind is always running with ideas as you will changing is the quality, the thought, or the stan- see on page 94 and 96. dard attached to most of my new creations, I do from time to time go back tomy older creations CELEBRATING

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Inroducing the

WATERMELON COLLECTION by

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The Watermelon collectionÂ features 39 different artwork but all with one thing in common; the colors of the insides of a watermelon, some are more detailed than others, but all have a message behind them. These different messages are drawn fromÂ African, pop culture, minimalism, people, tech, design, books, emotions,Â etc. These ideas came from places I have been, people around me, and some are just from my own meandering mind. They are designed to take you into 39 different worlds and by setting your imagination free you will be able to see beyond just an image but a whole new world in motion, with different characters you have never met before.In addition, there are some that are product designs, to show that art can be versatile and the possibilities are really limitless. It has taken me more than 3years to come up with this the full collection. Some ideas were easier come up with, while others took more time to put together, I would get stuck at times for days just trying to find the right place to put a color or thinking the design has too many parts or too little, but I learned so much from it and would be able to make me trust myself a lot more after the project. There still more designs to be made and I think you will be seeing more of this type of themed designs in the future and there is a nugget on page xxx.These designs can be printed on merchandise like t-shirts or canvases. For more information on purchasing framed canvases of these designs visit the on the Artboard magazine social media or email us on theArtboardMagazine@aol.com for a quote. featuring a collection by

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Enjoy the little things.

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Feel the cool breeze of the outdoors and appreciate the beauty of nature.

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About Sizana Arts Sizana Arts is an art company that works to support artists through management, development, and international sales. If you have ever heard of Doctors Without Borders, Sizana Arts works with a number of creatives around the world from across international borders. They are made up of individuals from multiple nationalities who love and appreciate art.

Their founder, Darren is an international educator who developed a profound love for Zambian art and artists when he lived in Lusaka. He couldn’t help but notice that while there were many with great talent among the creatives, the market was just too saturated and many artists often get lost in the shuffle, often struggling to live a life commensurate Darren Stewart

with their abilities. Despite their challenges, they persevered and exemplified humbleness — Darren found this both fascinating and admirable. Sizana, which can mean friend or ally, was founded as a collaborative effort to work together and achieve greater things together. They work closely with their artist-members providing guidance on development and goals, securing professional development opportunities, boosting their platforms internationally, and most important, help bettering their daily lives through income generation. This last goal is very important to them: through first-hand observation, they noticed that many prolific talents live in obscurity and struggle to provide their day-to-day sustenance for themselves and their families. This is why they put a lot of effort into the product and merchandising division of their business — “we find other ways for artists to earn a living through reproduction of the artists’ works as products and prints.

Every sale literally pays an artist and we want clients to know what difference their decision to buy makes.” Not only does buying an art product help artists improve their standard of living, but it is another form of marketing that serves to promote their work and reach never-before reached markets. “An artist who does not have worry about their daily necessities is free to focus more in the creative process.” Since the formation of Sizana Arts, represented artists are receiving opportunities they have not had before and we are having visitors from all over the world being exposed to their work. Sizana Arts is a great platform for artists — especially those from underrepresented backgrounds. They believe that all the artists they work with have qualifying skill to be known among the best around the world, which is they work tirelessly to support them. Artists can best take advantage Sizana Arts’ services by reaching out to them and explaining their needs and goals. Though their mission is outreach and artist represen-

tation, artists should take the opportunity to constantly highlight their work on Sizana Arts website, https://shopsizanaarts.com and all there social media platforms, be reliable, responsive, and consistent in working and communicating. Their work as their own advocacy does not end, if fact, they may have to work harder. Sizana Arts believe differences and achievements are earned with disciplined effort — nothing is gained from complacency. Lastly, through collaboration with Sizana Arts, artists have a unique opportunity to creative new collaborative projects through the Sizana Arts network that is not possible by themselves. Sizana Arts prides itself on honesty and transparency. Due to the nature of how their work, the artist without borders approach, nothing would be possible if artists and their works were not protected. that is why they make sure a memorandum of understanding, which outlines the expectations and protections of all parties, is put in place first before any kind of collaboration and representation commences. All artists are informed upfront and have the opportunity to advocate their unique needs and goals. Sizana Arts are truly excited to be working with Artboard Magazine going forward! There is a strong alignment and synergy between their purposes and this has reinforced the necessity for this new collaboration between Sizana Arts and Artboard Magazine.

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intoku

Intoku is a Japanese word that translates to ʻGood done in secretʼ. In Zen Buddhism, it’s often used to describe the act of doing unpopular jobs without expecting praise or reward. For example, the guy who cleans the Zen center’s toilets every day without being asked is practicing Intoku. By performing acts such as this, it’s believed that the practitioner will gain merit and realize enlightenment more quickly. That being said, Intoku is a very strange practice on the surface. In the face of layoffs, rowdy neigh-

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bors, and political unrest, it seems like the Zen equivalent of standing around a campfire and singing kumbaya. It sounds good on paper, but does it really fix anything? Yes, it does, and we can see that for ourselves by simply observing how plants interact with the world. Case in point, there’s a money tree (Pachira Aquatica) sitting peacefully on my desk as I write this. Sadly, it doesn’t drop dollar bills from its branches, but my tree has a remarkable talent for turning carbon dioxide into oxygen. And it does that all day, every day without fail. My money tree is completely unperturbed when I have a bad day at work, when my neighbors shoot off fireworks at 2 am, or when disturbing news stories pop up on my social media feed. It just keeps pulling nutrients from the soil, sprouting new leaves, and purifying the air I breathe without missing a beat. This is the essence of Intoku: to keep doing good works no matter how much suffering occurs around us. But the practice doesn’t end there. Intoku requires us to do good works in secret. In other words, we must do them without the expectation of getting something in return. Of course, that’s not to say that receiving validation from others is a bad thing. As social creatures, it’s only natural that we enjoy receiving praise from others. This is especially true when we go out of our way to do a good deed. But if we’re being honest, most kind acts go unrewarded. People don’t always say ‘Thank you’ when we hold the door for them, children aren’t always respectful to their parents, and sometimes bosses don’t appreciate our hard work.

Intoku, because once we learn to do good works without desiring praise, we liberate ourselves. We stop looking to others for validation, and our acts of kindness become their own reward. When toilets are dirty, we clean them. When people are hungry, we feed them. And we go to bed at night happy in the knowledge that in a world filled with suffering, we made things a little better. This is something all of us can do. Each of us has a role to play in the world, and we make life better for everyone when we fulfill that role in a kind and loving way. Intoku provides a method for doing that. We just need to be willing to try. *** Alex Chong Do Thompson is a former Marine who now earns his living as a Business Analyst. He splits his free time between social justice work, cycling, and deepening his meditation practice. Alex has been a Zen practitioner since 2013, and he is training to become a lay minister in the Bright Dawn Center of Oneness Buddhism. You can read more of his writing by visiting his blog, The Same Old Zen.

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The Rafa3l cathedral of glass.

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ESSENTIALLY AFRICAN THE NARRATIVE OF AFRICAN EXCELLENCE. To be Essentially African is to embrace contemporary African art; to dare to stand out in a contemporary world while expressing the best in tribal art. —As far as clarity goes, being essentially African is probably the most accurate way to describe how I view myself. Let me unpack this. Historically, the word contemporary or modern has been used to describe a collective of sorts that aggregate concepts and expressions that in turn represent western art forms. However, these aggregations happened also during a time when art forms were mutually exclusive to what was then known as “tribal” or “ethnic” art forms; that were used to express African concepts. CONTEMPORARY ART IS, BY ITS VERY NATURE, FLUID, SELF-MOTIVATED AND RESISTS CLASSIFICATION. I read this somewhere and strongly agree! Today, contemporary is a moment’s definition; describing anything that belongs to or occurs in the present time. When it comes to art, it becomes very difficult to classify what contemporary art is.

So what then is the identity of an African artist who has embraced the two worlds—tribal and contemporary? This artist would practice what is commonly known as Contemporary African Art. Albeit, keep in mind that this art form represents a vast range of views happening all over the diaspora. TO BE ESSENTIALLY AFRICAN IS TO EMBRACE CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN ART; TO DARE TO STAND OUT IN A CONTEMPORARY WORLD WHILE EXPRESSING THE BEST IN TRIBAL ART. My contribution to this is to create a profound way to represent African fashion styles in a way that makes it easy for you to be Essentially African—to be inspired by African art, spirit, and culture and to be composed in a manner that provokes modern-day stigma of African standards. Sincerely,

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Space dance.

Artwork is an expression of how hard it would be for lady liberty to continously hold the torch up if she were an animate being...the question the artwork asks is; Is the statue a practical symbol of liberty or bares another message to say that liberty can only be consistantly held by a statue and not humans?

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Kay Shakaabo Mwando Designer Digtal Graphics Artist Profession: IT Professional Hobbies: Music Lover, travelling, Basketball... To begin with I am an artist. I have always loved art even before I understood how far or which places (locales/locations/cities) art would take me. When I was about 10 years old I would draw characters from books but I later stopped when I moved to a different town and school , because I had found friends who I would play with a lot more often than drawing, this took most of my time. I remember when I was in the 6th grade, love for art was restored, I would pick a nickname that I gave myself and take my class exercise books and would draw that nickname in different font types(even before I understood what fonts were), I would annoy my elder brother because his books were not spared either.I carried on with this for a couple more years till I was in 9th grade when my elder brother assembled a PC for university coursework, I developed immediate interest in the computer for car racing games, particularly the game Porsche which I finished so many times I got bored. It was at that point I developed an interest in music. I had a friend; Mubanga who used to produce music. He and his brother owned a studio and at the time using compact disks was the only way to store and play music, so they would make music and design the album arts for their covers, I had gone to see Mubanga one day when he was working on an album covers using software called Ulead Photo Studio, I remember him putting himself in front of a car in a picture and I was blown away, so I asked him to share the software with me and teach me how to do what he was doing, I immediately ran home to try it out. I think I did that for two weeks(putting myself in front of things: cars, pyramids, money etc....lol) and got bored because I wanted to be able to create my own creations and not merely putting myself in front of objects. My search for software that would make me create original creations continued. I would later find it in a pirated copy of windows XP called Black XP that would come with tons of cracked software(NOT ENCOURAGING PIRACY BUT WE COULD NOT AFFORD SOFTWARE AT THE TIME) and the software that caught my interest was ACDsee, which was not really designed for creating illustrations but I learned to use it as such by using effects to manipulate text, this was interesting because I was not following any graphics design rules, it allowed me to create unique

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graphics that even surprised the best graphics designers. I continued with this software tool for about four to five years until the time I would find Photoshop, it taught me a lot but like Ulead Photo Studio it would not really interest me so much. While in college(ZCAS University now) I came across illustrator from one of my classmate actually it was an Adobe package called CS6 that had all the graphics design tools. I collected some tutorials and started illustrating with Illustrator creating new artwork. I never thought i would do much with what i had learnt in graphics design because in my country there is a notion that you can only be valuable if you have had a college or university education. It took my friend Ngandu may his soul rest in peace, to print the first of my work on T-shirts for me to see any sort of hope that there was something there. Another good friend Nanpyal introduced me to a lecturer from the University of Zambia; Mr. TK Phiri, he was running an initiative called Umodzi Network, which dealt with environmental issues. Nanpyal and I working Ngandu Kaunda printed my first artwork

together on that project to design and print brochures and posters. This was actually the first time I would get paid for the doing graphics design. Alongside this, I kept designing for pleasure.I was then called by a classmate to design on a logo for a software that they were starting to create, so that I sat down and created that logo. The next evening I met with the team and presented the logo to them and they were very pleased or very happy with it, so they followed up by asking if I would like to be paid or partner with them creating that software.This kicked off my journey as an entrepreneur because not only was I working on the graphics side of things I was also working on the database for the software and also would conduct sales and marketing meetings with different clients. After working on the software I started working on t-shirts designs that I started becoming very serious about, so as I was going to finish my degree, I decided to launch a clothing brand called Volition Wear www.facebook.com/volitionwear with Nanpyal Bedding Mark Mando, Ngandu Kaunda before he passed away and then his brother Mwelwa Kaunda after. From then I have taken graphics a lot more seriously, I am now able to use almost all the Adobe tools(Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, After Effects, Indesign). I have worked on different projects around

the world, I was recently working for a the marketing agency OEMPH! Media before my contract ended. I have since been working on The Artboard Magazine using all the experience I have acquired over time. I am currently working with Ambitious Africa in the magazine. I have learned so much in short period of time and there is still so much more to learn. I decided to create this The Artboard Magazine because I have been trying to take my art to the world and The Artboard magazine is the vehicle for this dreams, I and many other artists get to tell our full stories using the magazine. In a world where time moves faster and being able to capture a moment is harder than evermore. This magazine gives us a chance to stop time for a little moment as you go through this magazine you hear our cacophony of artistic styles, I believe and hope that it helps someone reach their dreams as I do mine.. THE LIFE OF AN ARTIST It is strange how life is, I particularly would like to point out the life of artists but this applies to anyone that is passionate about their talent or personal creativity, working in any field and have a burning desire to do something special and unique beyond their current work or would like to contribute to their creativity to thei current work but can not because of the limitations that their work comes with or the lack of time. As I have shared previously that within everything I did growing up and considered profitable or of more importance was a never-ending small flame(Art) moving beside me. It had to take my lowest point to discover just how important it was to me.My previous employment was the longest I had ever stayed on a job, I started working as a graphics designer for a great marketing company. When I got the job I had told myself a few things, That I would work to amass as much knowledge about the trade because prior to my employment I was running a business, a clothing brand and among many things that I had to learn was marketing, so when I got this opportunity to work for this company I had tasked myself to learning the practices found in the marketing industry in order to later apply that to my own business. I can not remember how I had gotten diverted from that plan but what sure did contribute was the fact that I had in a way become happy and comfortable with having employment that paid me for Zambian standards a seemingly fair salary to get by month to month, I started to stagnate when it came to my art and soon enough started to dread my going for work because it had become a cycle of waking up going to work, doing the same thing every day, getting

home tired and receiving an email or WhatsApp to finish up work at night or something of the sort with the occasional moments where I would be granted freedom to apply my creativity. My contract was to later terminated and I was not psychologically ready for it, it hit me so hard that I turned to substance abuse for a couple of months because idid not know what to do next. THE BIRTH OF THE MAGAZINE. The stranger thing was I was still in the early phase of my low point I had decided to create a small catalog of artwork I had done, what you have now come to know as The Watermelon collection, something in my mind told me to start creating a document of my art collection(Not the magazine). I later thought it would be much better to include more people that are doing art. That was the birth of the Artboard magazine, I would from time to time(because I had closed myself in to be alone during that phase, and only communicate when I was home alone and sober) contact different artist online through mainly Instagram and Facebook ask them to share their art toward the magazine. One of the first people to respond were Vuyo and Ulah, you will see their work in the magazine, they would share their work and support to the magazine. Working on the magazine/art kept me from a total break-down, I continued working and networking with more artists that I had known from the past and met new ones also like Kwizera and @spacceyes just to mention a few. The magazine started to take shape, with me having no background of writing but that did not stop me from creating this magazine. I do not know what it was but the “magazine” that had not never been published before started attracting people that were willing to support it and seeing the finished product. The first was www.see.me a website dedicated to promoting, sharing and offering a platform for artists and their work that I had emailed and was glad to learn more about the magazine, I was referred to the CEO Bredan to discuss how they can offer support to the cause, Then was Ambitious Africa who after I had created an account on a platform called the Deal Room reached out to me through Tiia, Ronny and Alina to learn more about the magazine and since then we have been working together on this magazine, they have offered tons of advice and support in many different ways that you will see in the future, and then Sizana Arts followed after what had become a routine of stalking artists lol!… I came across a brilliant artist, Caleb Chishia and I wanted to ask him to share his work to put in the magazine, Sizana Arts happened to be the

agency managing Caleb, The founder Darren Stewart got in touch with me and we discussed the possibility of working together since we have been having meetings and sharing art and ideas for more future collaborations between Sizana Arts and I. These are just a few of the engagements I have managed to make, others like Tony Media, Hut House Media, Khan Kulu, Foxdale Estate Ltd and many more have openly shared support for this project and I can never be more thankful than to do the best in exposing their work. The large number of networks I have mentioned here all happened in the space of two weeks just before I was about to announce the release of an Indie magazine. This response started opening my eyes to the truth right under my nose that is what I was born to do this my whole life and I had been shutting it out, all I needed to do was to embrace it because truth be told involving the magazine idea, I had affirmed to myself regardless of the response or outcome I was going to put it out just to help other artists and me be heard for the love of art, I did not mind if the magazine was a success or not. The approach was more focused on giving rather than taking and proved more effective in the pursuit of reaching my goal, I decided to provide a platform for my fellow artists no matter how small it was, it was a start.I will only attribute the success of this magazine to the support given to me by everyone that supported the magazine through the sharing of artwork, advice, and motivation. To the struggling artist, I would like to tell you to believe in yourself and what you have within yourself. The climb is mostly never easy but that is the nature of most good things. Do not underestimate the power that is in giving and collaborating, find ways you can impact your community through the arts, collaborate with other artists even on actual art pieces and see what doors may open for yourself, also and most importantly do art because you love art. To cap it up my lowest moment in life has opened me up to a world I did not think existed and numerous possibilities that I would have not had if I gave art up. It has shown me what I really love to do and that I can even do more. Everything happens for a reason, good or bad, and it becomes clear if you are willing to find out what that is and turn it around to what you want it to suit. Search within yourself to find what you are really meant to do in life that is fulfilling and makes you happy the most.Art makes me happy and sharing it even more. I hope my experience may make an artist in the middle of the decision of putting the paintbrush away to reconsider. CELEBRATING

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Less But Better Page 48 Focus; Dieter Rams Page 50 10 Principles of good design Page 51 48

Less but better

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Industrial; Kay Mwando Page 93

Product Design; Kay Mwando Page 79

Style by Vuyo Boy Moloi; Black Art First Page 74

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FEATURE FOCUS Dieter Rams

T3 Pocket Radio player designed by Dieter Rams Designed in the 1958.

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Kay Mwandoʼs role model I have had a great privilege to live in the same timeline as one of the most prolific designers of all time; Dieter Rams, the German designer has impacted the world of design so much that if you do not know him by name then you have definitely held a device or object imbued by his creative ingeniousness. Between 1955 - 1995 Dieter Rams worked as a designer at Braun a German manufacturer of electronic devices such as radios, record players and

shaving machine etc.The amazing thing is that his products are timeless, from the aesthetics to their function. Companies like Apple have taken Dieter Ram's design practices into making their devices and the results speak for themselves. Dieter Rams coined the saying “Less but better”, this is the next chapter of my artworks. Dieter Rams came up with Ten Principles for Good Design and I have been learning to apply his principles in some of my designs.

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Dieter Rams 10 Principles of Good Design Inovative

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Aesthetics

Design is innovative

Good design makes a product useful

Good design is aesthetic

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Good design is honest

Good design is long-lasting

Good design is thorough down to the last detail

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Unobtrusive

Good design makes a product understandable

Good design is unobtrusive

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Good design is environmentally friendly

Good design is as little design as possible

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THOUGHTS FOR MANAGING A CREATIVE CULTURE Excerpt from the book Creativity, Inc. : overcoming the unseen forces that stand in the way of true inspiration / -Ed Catmull with Amy Wallace.

I’ve spent nearly forty years thinking about how to help smart, ambitious people work e ectively with one another. The way I see it, my job as a manager is to create a fertile environment, keep it healthy, and watch for the things that undermine it. I believe, to my core, that everybody has the potential to be creative—whatever form that creativity takes—and that to encourage such development is a noble thing. More interesting to me, though, are the blocks that get in the way, often without us noticing, and hinder the creativity that resides within any thriving company.

Ed Catmull; President of Pixar Animation & Disney Animation says in the book; It has always been my goal to create a culture at Pixar that will outlast its founding leaders—Steve Jobs, John Lasseter, and me. But it is also my goal to share our underlying philosophies with other leaders and, frankly, with anyone who wrestles with the competing—but necessarily complementary—forces of art and commerce. What youʼre holding in your hands, then, is an attempt to put down on paper my best ideas about how we built the culture that is the bedrock of this place. This book isn’t just for Pixar people, entertainment executives, or animators. It is for anyone who wants to work in an environment that fosters creativity and problem solving. My belief is that good leadership can help creative people stay on the path to excellence no matter what business they’re in. My aim at Pixar—and at Disney Animation, which my longtime partner John Lasseter and I have also led since the Walt Disney Company acquired Pixar in 2006—has been to enable our people to do their best work. We start from the presumption that our people are talented and want to contribute. We accept that, without meaning to, our company is sti ing that talent in myriad unseen ways. Finally, we try to identify those impediments and fix them.

Here are some of the principles weʼve developed over the years to enable and protect a healthy creative culture. I know that when you distill a complex idea into a T-shirt slogan, you risk giving the illusion of understanding—and, in the process, of sapping the idea of its power. An adage worth repeating is also halfway to being irrelevant. You end up with something that is easy to say but not connected to behavior. But while I have been dismissive of reductive truths throughout this book, I do have a point of view, and I thought it might be helpful to share some of the principles that I hold most dear here with you. The trick is to think of each statement as a starting point, as a prompt toward deeper inquiry, and not as a conclusion. • Give a good idea to a mediocre team, and they will screw it up. Give a mediocre idea to a great team, and they will either fix it or come up with something better. If you get the team right, chances are that they’ll get the ideas right. • When looking to hire people, give their potential to grow more weight than their current skill level. What they will be capable of tomorrow is more important than what they can do today. • Always try to hire people who are smarter than you. Always take a chance on better, even if it seems like a potential threat. • If there are people in your organization who feel they are not free to suggest ideas, you lose. Do not discount ideas from unexpected sources. Inspiration can, and does, come from anywhere. • It isn’t enough merely to be open to ideas from others. Engaging the collective brainpower of the people you work with is an active, ongoing process. As a manager, you must coax ideas out of your staff and constantly push them to contribute.

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• There are many valid reasons why people aren’t candid with one another in a work environment. Your job is to search for those reasons and then address them. • Likewise, if someone disagrees with you, there is a reason. Our first job is to understand the reasoning behind their conclusions. • Further, if there is fear in an organization, there is a reason for it—our job is (a) to find what’s causing it, (b) to understand it, and (c) to try to root it out. • There is nothing quite as effective, when it comes to shutting down alternative viewpoints, as being convinced you are right. • In general, people are hesitant to say things that might rock the boat. Braintrust meetings, dailies, postmortems, and Notes Day are all efforts to reinforce the idea that it is okay to express yourself. All are mechanisms of self-assessment that seek to uncover what’s real. • If there is more truth in the hallways than in meetings, you have a problem. • Many managers feel that if they are not notified about problems before others are or if they are surprised in a meeting, then that is a sign of disrespect. Get over it. • Careful “messaging” to downplay problems makes you appear to be lying, deluded, ignorant, or uncaring. Sharing problems is an act of inclusion that makes employees feel invested in the larger enterprise. • The first conclusions we draw from our successes and failures are typically wrong. Measuring the outcome without evaluating the process is deceiving. • Do not fall for the illusion that by preventing errors, you won’t have errors to x. The truth is, the cost of preventing errors is often far greater than the cost of fixing them. • Change and uncertainty are part of life. Our job is not to resist them but to build the capability to recover when unexpected events occur. If you don’t always try to uncover what is unseen and understand its nature, you will be ill prepared to lead. • Similarly, it is not the manager’s job to prevent risks. It is the manager’s job to make it safe to take them. • Failure isn’t a necessary evil. In fact, it isn’t evil at all. It is a necessary consequence of doing something new. • Trust doesn’t mean that you trust that someone won’t screw up—it means you trust them even when they do screw up. • The people ultimately responsible for implementing a plan must be empowered to make decisions when things go wrong, even before getting approval. Finding and fixing problems is everybody’s job. Anyone should be able to stop the production line.

• The desire for everything to run smoothly is a false goal—it leads to measuring people by the mistakes they make rather than by their ability to solve problems. • Don’t wait for things to be perfect before you share them with others. Show early and show often. It’ll be pretty when we get there, but it won’t be pretty along the way. And that’s as it should be. • A company’s communication structure should not mirror its organizational structure. Everybody should be able to talk to anybody. • Be wary of making too many rules. Rules can simplify life for managers, but they can be demeaning to the 95 percent who behave well. Don’t create rules to rein in the other 5 percent—address abuses of common sense individually. This is more work but ultimately healthier. • Imposing limits can encourage a creative response. Excellent work can emerge from uncomfortable or seemingly untenable circumstances. • Engaging with exceptionally hard problems forces us to think differently. • An organization, as a whole, is more conservative and resistant to change than the individuals who comprise it. Do not assume that general agreement will lead to change—it takes substantial energy to move a group, even when all are on board. • The healthiest organizations are made up of departments whose agendas differ but whose goals are interdependent. If one agenda wins, we all lose. • Our job as managers in creative environments is to protect new ideas from those who don’t understand that in order for greatness to emerge, there must be phases of not-so- greatness. Protect the future, not the past. • New crises are not always lamentable—they test and demonstrate a company’s values. The process of problem-solving often bonds people together and keeps the culture in the present. • Excellence, quality, and good should be earned words, attributed by others to us, not proclaimed by us about ourselves. • Do not accidentally make stability a goal. Balance is more important than stability. • Don’t confuse the process with the goal. Working on our processes to make them better, easier, and more efficient is an indispensable activity and something we should continually work on—but it is not the goal. Making the product great is the goal. Excerpt from Creativity, Inc. : overcoming the unseen forces that stand in the way of true inspiration / Ed Catmull with Amy Wallace.

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is basically an art and fashion designs movement that communicates to the township olden days lifestyle, combined with modern days fashion. The concept is inspired by the decency and neatness of BLACK men and women from the township in the olden days. The traditional prints therefore are in honour of Africanism and appreciation of the different patterns and prints of Africa as a continent. Mine(Vuyo Boy Moloi) is to tell and express the township lifestyle through art and fashion.

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Product designs I have a dream of creating my own line of shoes, here is a couple of shoes that I have designed and look forward to having them manufactured, what i basically am trying to show here is that the art industry can be just as versatile as any other industry as long we add value to all our work, we can turn our hobbies into more than something that only makes us happy and fulfilled but can be shared with others.

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Life Over four years of work putting this piece together, this has taught me to appreciate the process and that every project I undertake may not have the value in the now but be useful in the future. I created most of the places or parts in this artwork without knowing that they would piece themselves together in this artwork but I was sure that one day in the future they would definitely be of use. This has become very pivotal to my process, as I get to marry older ideas with newer ones, thereby combining the more original ideas and passion I possessed when I started to learn about graphics and art with the more refined lessons I have accumulated over the course of time, this always allows me to create unique and timeless art.The artwork has a lot of messages imbedded in it some mean something to me and others to the viewer, some obvious, others harder to perceive and that is why I try not to explain it much.Â There is beauty in mystery.

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Kwizera Honoré. A Rwandan young digital artist Based in Rwanda Born in 2001 and raised in Kigali, Rwanda. Got formal art education in an art school called Ecole d'art de nyundo, where I was pursuing graphic art course, and graduated last year. As a child I grew up watching cartoons and spent most of my childhood on TV, loved the creative world a lot. My work depict black people showing their strength, energy, I'm inspired by many things such as other artists, nature, people around me

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the orca I made a model of chair that I call The Orca, it is a Mobile Autonomous Chair designed for comfort, transportation (both for generic users and patients). In medical institutions The Orca is supposed to reduce the time and effort carried by health personnel in moving patients from one place to the other, it makes the job of the GP or Doctor easy because they will be able to call in patients using the chair and the chair will move them directly to their Doctors office or ward. In transportation it is nice way to move with comfort and ease. I designed The Orca in the shape of an Orca or killer whale for the Orcaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s strength and speed and the potential it has to change the way people move, and ultimately its form factor, if you look closely you will see the fins where the handles are, the mouth on the head rests and the tale on the foot rest, essentially my aim it to show how art can be coupled into any type of work imaginable.

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revolvers I designed headphones like no others called Revolvers, because like their name â&#x20AC;&#x153;they have a revolver insdeâ&#x20AC;?. The revolvers has four speakers attached to them to split different sound in different ways and allow the listenter a whole new experence of sound. For producer these headphones will offer them even more ways to make music with more depth and feel. songs that were made without this techology may now be remade with the exact sound that was intended. The idea come from the Revlover (Gun), each beat you hear is a bullet of excitement, reflection, love etc.

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ULAH This is my castle a house of raw unrefined arts, I started to build as a distraction to keep me from my raging thoughts, then it became a dream that I put to practice and eventually a necessity. Days upon days I have felt like I'm so full of depth that I have to sink into my own mind to escape a shallow world. Fashion, photography, music, poetry and all different kinds of art are for me,more of an extension of my being than just a form of expression. In the areas where I feel powerless,i nadequate, unfitting I simply "create" and remind myself that my creation is a product of my thoughts, plans, ability and applied skill. And that is a great source of comfort for me.

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Life 2 “Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing—it was here first. —MARK TWAIN, GREAT AMERICAN NOVELIST” Excerpt From: Kaufman, Josh. “The Personal MBA” “Either you control your destiny, or your destiny will control you. Life won’t stop for your pauses and procrastinations. It won’t stop for your confusion or fear. It will continue right along without you. Whether you play an active part or not, the show will go on.” “Listen, when it comes down to it, the world doesn’t stop you from succeeding; you’re not that big of a deal. The universe is neither conspiring for nor against you, and the only thing that stops you is when you buy into the notion that you are stopped. Then, my friend, you really are stopped. Until then, it’s on like freaking Donkey Kong.” Excerpt From: Gary John Bishop. “Unfu*k Yourself: Get out of your head and into your life”. Apple Books.

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African exellence This piece tries to explain that Africans with their culture and tools have the potential of embracing them, adding value to them, and reachingÂ higher heights.

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Social Distancing The funny thing about this piece is i created it before the coronavirus and it had both the message on prevention and social distancing.

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Murphys Law: A time where the only law was Murphys Law. “If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart” - Socrates”

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Valhalla: a palace in which heroes killed in battle were believed to feast with Odin for eternity.

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Nayu pa motoka; The visual discourse on cultural appropriation. The vehicle is a metaphor for western culture and the Nyau is a representation of our African culture. The question the painting answers are; Is it responsible to stringently protect the element of culture from over exploitation? If so; Then how do the indigenous folk benefit economically and socially from the use of their culture?. By Kulu

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I looked at him and did not understand what I would do if he suddenly disappeared.

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Dave chappelle David Khari Webber Chappelle (born August 24, 1973) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and producer. Chappelle is the recipient of numerous accolades, including two Emmy Awards and three Grammy Awards as well as a Mark Twain Prize. He is known for his satirical comedy sketch series Chappelle's Show (2003â&#x20AC;&#x201C;2006). The series, co-written with Neal Brennan, ran until Chappelle's retirement from the show two years later. After leaving the show, Chappelle returned to performing stand-up comedy across the U.S. By 2006, Chappelle was called the "comic genius of America" by Esquire and, in 2013, "the best" by a Billboard writer. In 2017, Rolling Stone ranked him No. 9 in their "50 Best Stand Up Comics of All Time.

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Elon Musk a serial entrepreneur is the co-founder of PayPal, the chairman of SolarCity and the chief executive of Tesla.a billionaires, and very well-respected ones at that. Musk may only be 46-years old but, as a brilliant engineer with one of the greatest minds of a generation, he is often favourably compared to the equally genius (yet fictitious) Tony Stark of Iron Man fame. -All about Space | 2018 | issue 73-

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Tupac Amaru Shakur ( born Lesane Parish Crooks, June 16, 1971Â â&#x20AC;&#x201C; September 13, 1996),

popularly known by his stage name 2Pac, was an American rapper and actor. He is considered by many as one of the most significant rappers of all time. Much of Shakur's work has been noted for addressing contemporary social issues that plagued inner cities, and he is considered a symbol of resistance and activism against inequality.

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Dieter Rams

(born 20 May 1932 in Wiesbaden, Hessen) is a German industrial designer and retired academic[1] closely associated with the consumer products company Braun, the furniture company VitsĹ&#x201C;, and the functionalist school of industrial design. His unobtrusive approach and belief in "less but better" design generated a timeless quality in his products and have influenced the design of many products, which also secured Rams worldwide recognition and appreciation.

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inspiration Behind the watermelon collection “I have a firm belief that the greatest inventions or creations have their roots derived and inspired by nature, because of its immense uniqueness. ”This undeniable uniqueness is clear wherever I look and it makes me wonder what the designer of it all had in mind while creating everything I see around me. From the smallest organism to the largest animal or mountain. The attention to detail in the aesthetics, the functionality, and how it all comes together to form a fully self-sustaining, safe system of microorganisms, particles, and atoms yet maintaining the beauty within and without. I have constantly been fascinated by this feat of design expression. This is the inspiration for all my designs. This tells me that if I was designed with this level complexity, with all the intricacies that I possess within me, I am able to make or design something that has such remarkable and complex attributes in it.This collection

picks from the colors of the insides a watermelon, and while this may seem like a simple idea, I ask you to look beyond just the colors but see the stories behind, Hell! Create your own stories from what you see because art is expression and expression is limitless both from the viewing party or the designer depending on age, race, background, gender, or exposure, all may have one different thing to say about a particular piece of artwork. In short my artworks will never be complete or have one definite meaning as long as there is someone to look at them and find their own meaning.“This is essential to my process because I create art with the intent that the viewer may find or create their own meaning from what they see and I wish I could be a fly in the room of every person that looks at my art to learn what it means to them but, nevertheless am just happy and grateful that you took the time to look at my work”.

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Harriet Tubman

(born Araminta Ross, c. March 1822 – March 10, 1913) was an American abolitionist and political activist. Born into slavery, Tubman escaped and subsequently made some 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people, including family and friends, using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad. During the American Civil War, she served as an armed scout and spy for the Union Army. In her later years, Tubman was an activist in the struggle for women's suffrage.

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Bob Marley (1945â&#x20AC;&#x201C;81), Jamaican reggae singer, guitarist, and songwriter; full name Robert Nesta Marley. Having formed the trio the Wailers in 1965, in the 1970s he was instrumental in popularizing reggae. His lyrics often reflected his commitment to Rastafarianism.

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Kobe Bean Bryant ( August 23, 1978 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; January 26, 2020) was an American professional basketball player. As a shooting guard, Bryant entered the National Basketball Association (NBA) directly from high school, and played his entire 20-season professional career in the league with the Los Angeles Lakers. Bryant won many accolades: five NBA championships, 18-time All-Star, 15-time member of the All-NBA Team, 12-time member of the All-Defensive Team, 2008 NBA Most Valuable Player (MVP), two-time NBA Finals MVP winner. Widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, he led the NBA in scoring during two seasons, ranks fourth on the league's all-time regular season scoring and may his soul rest in piece. all-time postseason scoring lists.

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Artwork 39: Malcolm X (1925â&#x20AC;&#x201C;65), American political activist; born Malcolm Little. He joined the Nation of Islam in 1946 and became a vigorous campaigner for black rights, initially advocating the use of violence. In 1964 he converted to orthodox Islam and moderated his views on black separatism; he was assassinated the following year.

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Names: Raphael Muwowo DJ Names: R A F A 3 L Birth: 24th Dec 1993 Sex: Male Location: Lusaka Music Style: EDM (Electronic Dance Music) / Afro House /Dance. Equipment: Serato DJ /Virtual DJ /Traktor /Deckadance Places DJ’d: Finders Keepers Events /NuCulture Raphael Muwowo (born 24th December 1993), professionally known as RAFA3L (pronounced as Rafael/Raphael), is a Zambian EDM (Electronic Dance Music) / Afro House /Dance DJ, record producer, musician and remixer. He started getting in on the music at the age of 8 while working on FL Studio 3 as a Hip-hop producer, under the name Rizzy. “my first DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) was FL 3 (Fruity Loops). It was a gift from my brother on a windows 98 computer and it made so much sense at the time. At least it got the job done anyway. Haha.” He joked. In 2011, he expressed interest in becoming an EDM producer and DJ, In 2013 he worked on a trail EP 'Take note' which was later released on soundcloud in 2014.In 2015 a more organized EP 'PUZZLES' was released. He then became affiliated with the Zambian EDM group 'Beargang XV' set up by Zambian well known DJ & Producer Sebastien Dutch (link: https://goo.gl/C7emAE ). Mid 2016 he released "The nights" a single which was in two months remixed by the 'beargang xv' group. The Nights EP featuring all remixes by the group was then officially released under beargang records and the original mix was voted EDM song of the year by ZEDM (link: https://goo.gl/WhIBFI ) On December 28th 2016, RAFA3L released an eight track EDM EP titled "The Humming". The EP featured upcoming rapper ‘DeBRON.’ In 2017 he worked on a side project EP “Save me, this is not a drill” under a different alias BANJO (stylized as BANJO) He released “Promises” featuring Namwambila on 28th December 2018 as a single. He has since done several EPs such as 3LGA(pronounced ELGA) BANJO volume 2, and he has done a numer of singles with numerous artists.

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The Watermelon EP Composing optics into sound RAFA3L works on a project with Kay Mwando(mwandosart.international) in creating the Watermelon EP, the uniqueness of it is that RAFA3L takes time to look at select artworks from the Watermelon Collection created by mwandosart.international and envisions what that particular image if interpreted into audio would sound like. It is unbelievable what different people see and how they express it and what RAFA3L has done on this project explains that very well, when I(Kay Mwando) designed the Watermelon Collection my mind would see and feel what the artworks would say to me but i could not hear the sound they would give, it was so amazing for me to hear and agree to how RAFA3L expressed these artworks in sound. You can access the EP from https://mvesesani.com/music/rafa3l-watermelon-ep/ CELEBRATING

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The Watermelon EP is an eight-track compilation of songs that Rafa3l had through looking at the eight artworks to the right from the Watermelon collection designed by Kay Mwando (mwandosart.international). Download, listen to the EP and experience a sound born from one artists idea to another.

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Nova Blvd (Kaluku Max Muyalwa) is a Zambian Music Producer, born and raised in Lusaka, specializing in Electronic and Synth Pop Instrumental Music. His inspiration came from many artists like Jack Antonoff of Bleachers, Ryan Tedder of OneRepublic, Chris Martin of ColdPlay & Odesza. While he’s never physically played an instrument or taken any music classes, his love for the art hasn’t discouraged him from producing music. Nova Blvd prides himself on making music that captures the audience attention with catchy melodies and leans towards bright uplifting sounds. He has been making music since 2010, when he discovered his talent. Nova Blvd is currently working on an EP for 2020 and an album for 2021.

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In line with Artboard Magazines truism of exposing individuals or entities exhibiting innovations in the field of architecture and interior design we took a look at Zambia’s first sustainable housing development, Foxdale Forest. LIVING SUSTAINABLY AT FOXDALE FOREST

Foxdale Forest is Zambiaʼs first sustainable residential housing development. In the construction of homes, we encourage home owners to use solar power, rain and grey water harvesting, build with local building materials, recycle in the construction process, and consider the home orientation to reduce unnecessary heat penetration in summer, and heat loss in winter. OUR GREEN HOME VISION

Our vision is to create a safe, tranquil and sustainable living environment for you and your family. The development provides outdoor forest walking tracks, a club house, pool, children’s play area, tennis court, gym, sports field, horse riding track and stables. Foxdale Forest offers 85 stands. Sites range from 1,800 - 4,000 sqm in area. With rising energy prices, we promote energy efficient homes with LED lights and energy efficient appliances. The orientation of your home is vital in keep your home cool in summer and warm in winter, without the

need for air-conditioning. We encourage natural ventilation and ceiling fans. We wish to create a home community with a low carbon foot print, using local building materials, and supporting jobs in the local construction sector. We promote the the use of recyced materials, both in the construction and in the running of your home. A waste managemnet area is located within Foxale Forset, to recycle your home waste. We enourage minimal wastate during the construciton process. To maintain the tranquility of living in a forest, solar back up power is required and no generators are permitted. To reduce dependancy on underground water, and reduce the lowering of the water table, rainwater and grey water harvesting is promoted. We love our forest and limit the number of trees and can be cut down. We support natural flora and fauna, and encourage gardens using indigenous vegetation, which supports bird life. To ensure that Foxdale Forest remains a cohesive community of consistently high quality, Foxdale Estate Ltd have developed

Architectural Design Guidelines that provide a design framework for the homes and landscapes that will be created. The Architectural Design Guidelines are not always absolute or prescriptive, and they encourage design creativity and diversity within the stated range of styles. Their fundamental intent is to maintain an environment of uncompromising quality while empowering owners to create custom homes reflective of their individual styles and designed to satisfy their families’ unique requirements.We have appointed a Building Committee, spearheaded by the Project Development Manager, to ensure that homes constructed adhere to these design guidelines. Prospective homeowners must obtain prior approval from the Building Committee before submitting plans to Lusaka City Council for planning permission.We welcome you to Foxdale Forest and look forward to seeing the creation of your green home! The Foxdale Forest Team

Guiding principles Minimum Criteria for having a green home at Foxdale Forest: Sustainability Orientation of house designed where veranda faces North Orienting your home north will reduce the heat penetration in summer and heat loss in winter Solar and invertor back up power only Generators are prohibited and all back up power is to be generated through solar power or inverters. This is to respect the silence and enjoy the sounds of nature within Foxdale Forest. 10,000L rainwater harvesting storage tank To reduce dependency on underground water, rainwater harvesting is encouraged Local Building materials Home owners are encouraged as much as possible to use locally sources building materials, to promote the local construction sector, and Zambian jobs. Energy Efficient bulbs 95% of all bulbs within the home to be energy efficient, and not higher than 4 watts of power. Waste Management Households carryout waste management and separate paper, plastic, food waste, glass, plastic containers. Food waste to be composted within garden of home. A waste management area will be provided for separation and collection of recycled waste. Landscape & Nature Maintaining the natural forest No tree may be cut down that measures more than 150mm in diameter, without consent from Building Committee. We wish to preserve our natural forest and habitat. Hedges and or fences around properties Block or concrete walls are prohibited around individual plots. Only hedges and fences are

allowed to mark the plot boundary. Maximum height for hedges and fences to be 1.8m. We encourage an environment where homeowners know and interact with their neighbours. Understanding Green Principles of Design The overall objective is to use these different elements to increase the efficiency of the building by decreasing energy and water consumption. Water utilization Rainwater harvesting Rainwater harvesting is the collection of water from the surface of the building roof, using a gutter and downpipe and stored in either a ground or under ground tank. With the large amount of rainfall Zambia receives annually, a rainwater harvesting system is an efficient measure. The collected rainwater can be used for both garden irrigation and household water. A physical and UV filter is recommended should rainwater be used for drinking. Grey water harvesting Grey water harvesting is the collection of water that has had human contact such as from sinks, showers, baths, washing machines, and dishwashing machines. This water can be reused in garden irrigation. Water saving aerator or flow restrictor for taps and showers is a simple way to reduce the water usage of water basins and showers. Water saving toilet system is also an easy way to reduce water usage, with a duel flushing system, to flush with less water, or more water as required. Other: Ensure there are no leakages in your water supply.

Types of water Green water is the soil moisture from precipitation, used by plants via transpiration. It is part of the evapotranspiration flux in the hydrologic cycle. Blue water is the freshwater from surface and groundwater. It is stored in lakes, streams groundwater, glaciers and snow. Grey water is polluted water, which was not in contact with faecal matter. Grey water is the product water of domestic activities: bathing, laundry and dishwashing or polluted water due to pesticides in agriculture and nutrients from fertilizers. It can be recycled and reused, not for drinking, but for irrigation. Since it was not in contact with human waste, it breaks down fast enough so it can be used for irrigation and safely reabsorbed into the ground. Black water is sewage water flushed in the toilets. It was in contact with faecal matter containing bacteria. Black water can be recycled through sewerage treatment plants through an oxygenation progress or through natural sewerage treatment ponds using plants to purify the sewerage water. Electricity With the large amount of sunlight hours per day in Zambia as well as the rising cost power, energy saving measures and alternatives to the national grid are effective ways to reduce your home energy bills, and use green energy generation technology. Below are recommendations for your home energy consumption. Solar power systems / Photovoltaic (PV) systems Homes can be 100% off the grid and run entirely on a solar system. Hybrid homes can also be designed, where appliances with inductive loads (drawing a large current in a CELEBRATING

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short period of time), are connected to the main grid (ZESCO). Examples of appliances with inductive loads, includes booster pumps, toaster, kettle, iron, lawnmower, washing machine, dishwashing machines, blenders, electric oven. Appliances with non-inductive loads are connected to the solar system, including LED lights, fans, TV. Foxdale Forest requires that all back up powers is produced through solar plans or an invertor. No generators are allowed within the development. This is to respect the silence, and sounds of nature within the development. Solar Geyser / Solar water heating unit A solar water-heating unit (solar geyser) will make a great difference in the amount of energy used to heat water. Solar geysers use the sun’s radiation to warm up cold water. A gas water heater can also be used. A solar water heater can reduce 12% of the electricity consumed by a household. We recommend orienting your roof to face North, a facing your solar panels on the North, to maximise the exposure to the sun. Energy saving lights Using modern 4watt light bulbs will provide the same lighting effect required for your home and will reduce the power consumed in the household. Energy saving lights will also reduce the strain on the solar system, which will prolong the lifetime of the battery bank. You can now source energy saving bulbs with a warm yellow glow, rather than a white light, if this is your preference. Energy saving appliances When purchasing household appliances for your home, look out for the energy rating of the appliance. We encourage use of appliances with a high energy saving rating of A+++ A++ and A+ and A. Using appliances with a high energy saving rating will reduce of your power consumption, and reduce your electricity bills. Gas cookers can also be used to reduce electricity consumption. Should and air-conditioning system need to be installed, we recommend the Daiken Ururu 7 star split system. Which has a high energy rating. Ceiling fans are energy efficient, and are encourage at Foxale Forest. Thermal Control within your home At Foxdale Forest, we discourage the use of air-conditioning, due to their high consumption of electrical power. Instead, we will ensure that your home is correctly oriented and provide the below guidelines, to reduce heat penetration into your home in summer and reduce heat loss in winter. Following these guidelines will provides for a cooler home during summer months, and will reduce dependency on

air-conditioning. Given that we live in Zambia, with warmer temperatures, the focus is on maintaining a cool home during the warm months. Home orientation and thermal properties in home To keep your home cool in the summer months, it is essential that the veranda of your home faces North. This is due to the following reasons: Zambia is in the Southern hemisphere, and therefore, the main volume of sun radiation enters your home from the North. Your veranda will have a roof over it, and therefore, the roof will greatly reduce the heat penetration into your home. Extended Roof Hang: Looking at the solar chart of Zambia we can conclude that the south face of the building will get the least amount of sunlight, the north face of the building will get the largest amount of sunlight, east will produce the morning sunlight and the west will produce the evening sunlight. Extending the roof on the north, west and east side of the structure will reduce the heat generated by direct sunlight on the walls. Pergola On the western side of the home, we encourage the construction of a pergola, with natural plant creepers growing over the pergola. The creepers have leaves during the summer, blocking western sun radiation from penetrating your western windows and keeping your home cool. During the winters months, the plans loose their leaves, and allow warm radiation to penetrate the windows, and warm your home. Shutters / awning / hoods Particularly on the western side of your home, with the warm afternoon sun, hoods or shutter can but fitted. These can cover your windows during summer months, to prevent heat penetration into the home. During winter months, they can be opened / reclined to allow heat into the home to provide for warmth. Ventilation Good natural ventilation can provide cooling in summer and fresh air all year round. Cross flow ventilation should be designed to capture summer breezes, and encourage natural summertime air movement within the building. Where possible, a combination of low and high level windows should be used to draw in cool air at the low level, and discharge warmer air at high level. This ‘thermal chimney’ effect is an effective way of improving with summertime comfort. An external screen to avoid moisture and insects is needed. Internally a wooden

screen could provide a nice finish and can be produced to shut out cold air in winter months. •Roof level ventilation Illustration of a ‘thermal chimney’ Allowing the warm air at the upper level of the structure to escape freely. This flow of air working together with the lower level ventilation allows cold air to enter and warm air to escape. A solar/thermal chimney could be another option to create a flow of air through the house. A whirlybird or a solar vent is a more economic option. Bricks The use of bricks, as apposed to blocks to build your home, will provide your house with superior thermal properties. Bricks have 20% superior thermal properties than blocks, thereby keeping your home cooler in summer and warmer in winter. Moreover, bricks sourced from Kalulushi Clay Bricks, near Kitwe in the Copper belt are a 100% green brick, where saw dust is used to fire the bricks, which is a by product from sawmills in Kitwe. Blocks on the other hand are made using cement, which emits large volumes of CO2 emissions during its production. Gabions A gabion wall structure is using a technique of cladding the external walls of the home wall with stone in a steel frame. This can be done the eastern and western sides of the home walls, to reduce heat transferred to the walls by direct sunlight in the morning and the evening. The gabion wall structure could also create a more natural feel to the structure. Recycled & local building materials Wherever possible, we encourage homeowners and contractors to use their creativity, and recycle materials during construction. This can be done by recycling glass in terrazzo floors, or using wooden pallets for kitchen, wardrobe doors or counter tops. Recycled glass chandeliers can be made for lights fittings, recycled tomatoes boxes can be used as book shelves. Recycled glass can be used for drinking glasses. Moreover, we encourage homeowners and contractors to use locally sourced building materials as much as possible. This is to support the local construction sector, and promote local jobs. The quality and rage of locally produced building materials is rapidly growing, with the prices coming down, and to further promote this industry, we urge home owners to support our local suppliers.

contact us Foxdale Forest is managed in-house by our full time property management and maintenance team. Our management office is located in Unit 111, Mama Betty Wing of Foxdale Court Office Park, or visit us onsite at Foxdale Forest development. For all enquiries please contact our Project Development Manager Szymon Starosta or our Accounts Mwamba Moses Mutuale and our team will promptly get back to you. You’re always welcome to pass through the office or come to the development, we’re here to help! Foxdale Court Ltd Management Office Suite 111, Mama Betty Wing Foxdale Court Office Park 609/S Zambezi Road, Roma Lusaka, Zambia +26 0211. 295.793 +26 0975.116.755 info@foxdaleforest.com www.foxdaleforest.com Foxdale Forest Foxdale Forest Road 32A Kabanana Lusaka, Zambia

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