I am a Zimbabwean artist, designer, art director, and typographer based in Providence, Rhode Island. I am also the co-founder of Mam’Gobozi Design Factory, a South African design studio dedicated to celebrating African identity through design, art, and product creation.

My work challenges conventional approaches, serving as both a call to decolonize Eurocentrism in graphic design and media and an ode to the beauty of celebrating African culture, heritage, and belonging.

2023 — 2025
MFA in Graphic Design
Rhode Island School of Design
Providence, Rhode Island
United State of America

2010 — 2012
BTech in Graphic Design
University of Johannesburg
Johannesburg, South Africa

Resume | Curriculum vitae

tshumaosmond@gmail.com

@wakwatshuma



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Speaker

2024 Typographics NYC

2022 PADI Webinar

2021 PADI Webinar - Design Practice in Afrika

2021 Type Directors Club - Type Drives Communities

2020 Typographics NYC

2020 ATYPi - Pan Afrika Dialogs

2020 Artmosphere 4.0 Ghana

2020 GDZ Design Week

2019 Foxp2 Advertising Agency

2016 & 2014 - Basha Uhuru

Press

Typographics t | Feb, 2025
Global Type Relay: Osmond Tshuma

Bloomsbury | Feb, 2025
Thinking Through Graphic Design History: Challenging the Canon by Aggie Toppins

Fonts in Use | Feb 8, 2024
African Film + Art Festival

Taz | Feb 16, 2022
Networking and training: The Africa magazine of the taz Panter Foundation was designed across two continents.

Hey LOOKOUT | Apr 14, 2022
S3E4 - Osmond Tshuma

Afrika Design | Jul 22, 2022
Osmond Tshuma: Afrika - Love Letters[ Episode 24 ]

From Africa | Jul, 2022
From Africa - A celebration of creativity from Africa, compiled and published by Counter-Print

Typographics 2020 | Sept 17, 2020
Afrika, all the inspiration I’ll need with Osmond Tshuma

Mail&Guardian | May 18, 2021
Rewriting Colonial Narratives? You might want a new font

SA Creatives | Jul 8, 2020
Meet The Design Duo of Mam'Gobozi Design Factory

Obama Foundation | 2019
The Creative Brief - designing a continent: Osmond Tshuma

This is Africa | Aug 5, 2019
Osmond Tshuma a graphic designer transforming African design, one pattern at a time

People's Stories Project | Mar 25, 2019
Osmond Tshuma on using design to critique colonialism

Headjam | Mar 31, 2014
Typo Tuesday: Colonial Characters

Jury

2025 ADC 104th Annual Awards: Typography / Lettering competition

2022 TDC 68 Communication Design competition

2022 Pendoring Awards

2020 Creative Circle Design Monthly Awards

2018 The Loeries Awards
Facebook Challenge & Young Creative category

2017 The Loeries Awards
Non-English Category




Awards

2018 Cannes Lions: Bronze - Indoor poster

2017 Cannes Lions: Bronze - Packaging design

2017 The One Club: Bronze - Packaging Design Bronze

2017 The One Club: Bronze - Static Typography

2016 Loeries: Bronze - Package Design

2016 Loeries: Bronze - Poster Design

2016 Creative Circle Awards: Ad Of The Month

2015 Loeries: Craft Certificate

2014 Pendoring: Silver - Student Craft Typography