Awesome design football South Africa 2010

 I discovered these fantastic designs by tsevis at Flickr when I was doing a search in google images for another post. This is the one and only Essien. I love how he had incorporated Kente patterns into his mosaic. This really looks like Ghana feels: vibrant, jagged and heading every which way. I'm not quite sure about Essien's face here, but the design is fantastic.

These are all from the series South Africa 2010. This is Mr D. Drogba-who else? Tsevis describes this: "Experimental mosaic portrait of Didier Drogba for the World Cup 2010 in South Africa. Studying the great African patterns tradition and experimenting with a limited color palette. This illustration is made with just 11 colors."

 This is a Liberian woman. "Experimental mosaic portrait of a smiling Liberian girl. Working with stars and stripes again as well as with more traditional African colors."

I think this is my favourite. I love the blend of earthy, African colours, the patterns and the pose. "Experimental mosaic portrait of the Cameroonian footballer Alexandre Dimitri Song Billong for the World Cup 2010 in South Africa. Studying the great African patterns tradition."

Tsevis describes this image: "Mosaic portrait of Djibril Cissé, the French footballer of Ivorian descent who is making every Panathinaikos FC fan happy. I am wishing Djibril to be recalled to the French National team and play in South Africa's World Cup 2010."

There is a lot of beautiful and inspiring work in his collections for the web and magazines and all sorts of things on a huge range of subjects like ballet, technology, art, social media, and so on. Check out Tsevis's photostream at Flickr.

Ghana housing project: design and construct sustainable home

As the site says: Open Source House (OS-House) is a non-profit organization that aims to provide better, more sustainable housing in low-income countries.

Designers, architects and those interested in modular and sustainable housing may be interested in this design competition at Open Source House.

The design competition starts on January 15th, 2010 and is open for team or individual participation. The challenge is to design a sustainable, flexible and locally embedded family house for a specific location in Ghana. The modular construction should be suitable for local implementation and affordable for its future owners. The winning design(s) will be built in Ghana. All information regarding the competition will be published on our website on January 15th.





4. Deadline and submission format.


May 17th, 2010. Before this date all designs must be submitted digitally. The design case, which will be published on the 15th of January, describes the format and drawings to be delivered. Contestants are asked to deliver designs considering all house components -foundation, structure, floor, facade, roof- and its set of connections



5. Pilot


The winning design(s) will be built in a pilot project in Ghana, to test the technical and economic feasibility as well as the social perception. Joining the competition is your chance to establish your name as an architect while witnessing your design being built and used by its new residents.

 6. The Open Source phase


To generate content for the OS-House platform we start with the Ghana design competition. However the aim of OS-House is to provide knowledge and choice. Therefore all submitted designs are published on the OS-House platform after the competition.


After this first competition and pilot project OS-House will continue to promote the implementation of more OS-Houses, challenge platform members to improve available designs, organize new competitions and stimulate local parties to take designs and adapt them to their local conditions. Our goal is to realize a 100.000 OS-Houses before the year 2020.

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Contemporary Art in Ghana

We have a new site www.g-lish.org where you can read all articles from This is Ghana in a much more organised fashion. Read Contemporary Art in Ghana there.

'FCA is the only foundation of its kind in Ghana. It is dedicated to
supporting the development of young artists.it offers artists a badly needed
place to brainstormlearn about the international art scene and keep in contact
with the World' Marina Galvani,curator, World Bank Art Program, Washington.

Painting below: "Another Responsibility" by Peter Nii Narku Thompson, the featured artist of Foundation for Contemporary Art in Ghana, an organisation based in Accra that supports fine arts development of both local and visiting artists in Ghana.

"Forward ever backwards never" by Peter Nii Narku Thompson.

Of volunteer opportunities, "FCA hosts a limited number of volunteers who wish to learn about contemporary art in Ghana, while contributing to the work of the Foundation. Volunteers need to pay their own airfare and local subsistence costs. FCA provides logistical support for the volunteer’s work programme. Contact FCA or our partner Ikando http://www.ikando.org/ for further information about volunteering with FCA."