Makers

Adding Creativity to the Technical – DP Mavia

by • May 26, 2019

When I was young I used to wait for holidays so that I could at least get some pocket money from gigs at a Paper-making factory. Most of the time we were deployed as casual...

How to Take a Risk – DP Mavia

by • May 26, 2019

Most people have lodged in the mind the adage that ‘you take calculated risks’. How can true risk be calculated? This presupposes that there needs to be a certain if not...

Language as A Limitation of Innovation and Creativity – DP Mavia.

by • May 26, 2019

Language: What is language? It is the vehicle for communicating ideas to one another. It achieves this by use of segments called words. It is generally assumed that verbalizing...

In Africa we read the Sky: Trend Watching from the Guts – D P Mavia.

by • May 26, 2019

My mother is not a rainmaker but before she traveled last Monday she looked in to the sky and said ` it’s going to rain’ just like that! We made sure she boarded her bus and...

How to Nurture a Unique Signature for Your Art – Part 1 – DP Mavia

by • February 6, 2018

Lets play a little game. Let me mix a bunch of people then I will allow you to do some guesswork. Picasso, Van Gogh, Pollock, Dada they are all guess? Artists. But apart from...