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