About Love Matters in Art

June 27, 2013

Vol 044. One Namibia Nation / The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total.


June 26, 2013

Beliefs Determine Behaviour
WHEN youths watch porn, meaningless pictures and videos and look at questionable magazines, the mind-set will begin to believe what they invest their time in.
Sirefwe Ernest

Poster Vol 043. Watching Behaviour – has been sent to print.

June 25, 2013


















Waiting for possible photographs of a Sister Namibia workshop in Rundu last weekend.  

















Vol 042B. seems to be either collected down or taken down very fast. 
Very interesting research discovery.

June 24, 2013

"I love typography, I think I was born with text in my pocket," an excited Niina says.
The Namibian Sun, 12.06.2013

“Kyk weer, as jy niks gesien het nie, is jy ooit wakker?
The Republikein, 13.06.2013

"But actually, I really just want to P R O VO  CA T             E and create discussion in the society, 


a society 

cannot

stay 

silent

non

active

for too

long, 

or maybe it can,

I do not personally wish to participate in the conversation of the subject matter, we are individually responsible for ourselves, mostly, I just want to direct the way" said Ms Turtola in an interview today with herself by herself about her exhibition. 

Freud, You were right. 

June 21, 2013

A4-size posters are traveling today to Rundu woth Sister Namibia. Looking forward to see some photographs of posters posting in Rundu! Exciting!
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June 19, 2013

one wonderful  Life
is. Why?
reason
For, I posters
Love saw two Matters in Art streets
because  on the of Windhoek today, which were NOT put up by myself.
posters when
wonderful
invited another different
Design
since
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posters to occasions/events the past
show exist during were three
week. It is. Warms the.
Life when
is there are le tt er s on the streets manifesting about issues-no-easily-approachable
by the society. and Art to these issues.

Yes, that is it!

June 18, 2013



















Niina Turtola's Love Matters in Art mobile posters were invited to join the Day of the African Child by the Embassy of Finland.

The Day of the African Child was celebrated on Saturday at the after-school centre in Katutura. The event was held under the theme ‘eliminating harmful social and cultural practices affecting children: Our collective responsibility’.


Thank you!



Toptop: Namibian kids whose names I did not ask and Niina Turtola (the TypoWriter). 
Top: Mr Kari Saloranta and Niina Turtola and Chargé d'Affaires Anne Saloranta. 
Above: A4-posters covering a wall and passers-by.

June 17, 2013

























Vol 050. LoveloveloveUnderstandingunderstandingunderstanding

Love Matters in Art posters were posted on the wall of the after-school centre in Katutura for the day of the Africa Child

Posters belong to where people are!


June 14, 2013

Vol 042. Do not socialize with a white person. 


Vol 042b. Do not socialize with a white person. 



















Cover Girl. 

Text taking footsteps to conquer space from the-ever-posing-people. 


Swiiing it...........!


Now in the cover of the Weekender, the weekly supplement to the Namibian, the national newspaper of Namibia.



This is a major breakthrough! To spread the message of the importance of   l e tte rs.  Text. Reading. Education. D e s i gn. V isual t ext. Context. Conceptualisation.

We are over-exposed to full color digital images, digital photographs of people, people, and people: posing leftways, rightways and sideways. There is no space for imagination nor thinking. Love Matters is using colloquial languages to conquer the mind of people, giving alternative views, with T e X t.

Design is thinking, conceptualising and making the concept visible with text. Love Matters challenges everyone working in the design industry to think before acting.

Time for celebration! Thank you the Editor of The Namibian, Johnathan.

June 13, 2013

Stop the press! Stop the press!Stop the press!Stop the press!Stop the press!Stop the press!Stop the press!Stop the press!Stop the press!Stop the press!Stop the press!Stop the press!Stop the press!Stop the press!Stop the press!Stop the press!Stop the press!Stop the press!Stop the press!Stop the press!Stop the press!Stop the press!Stop the press!
A dream come true: glow in the dark posters.





Love Matters in Art was invited to hang on the walls of an important panel discussion:


The Institute for Public Policy Research, 
in partnership with the Embassy of Finland, cordially invites you to a
PANEL DISCUSSION:
A panel discussion on gender and politics in Namibia
Featuring:An IPPR research paper presentation:
Gender and Politics in Namibia: Beyond the Numbers
By IPPR Research Associate, Nangula Shejavali

And panelists:
Hon. Rosalia Nghidinwa, MP, Minister of Gender Equality and Child Welfare
Hon. Margaret Mensah-Williams, MP, Vice Chairperson of the National Council
Mr. Ngamane Karuaihe-Upi, Gender Equality Practitioner
Ms. Rosa Namises, Director of Women’s Solidarity Namibia
Hon. Ignatius Shixwameni, MP, President of All People’s Party (APP)
Wednesday,12thJune 2013, 18h00 – 20h00
Protea Hotel Thuringerhof, Corner of Bahnhof Street and Independence Avenue.








Prominent panelists from left, listening Chargé d'Affaires Anne Saloranta's remarks: MP Hon. Ignatius Shixwameni, President of All People's Party; Dr. Graham Hopwood, IPPR; MP Hon. Rosalia Nghidinwa, Minister of Gender Equality and Child Welfare; MP Hon. Margaret Mensah-Williams, Vice Chairperson of the National Council and Mr. Ngamane Karuaihe-Upi, Gender Equality Practitioner.

June 11, 2013






















The pole of the National Art Gallery of Namibia dressed for the exhibition on the 6th of June.

June 10, 2013

“In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation. ” 

“The spectacle is capital accumulated to the point where it becomes image.” 

Guy Debord

June 7, 2013


























Vol013.Hate me and see if I care* exhibition has been sponsored by the Embassy of Finland in Windhoek, Namibia. 

Thank you! Kiitos!

This exciting and fresh typographic exhibition is currently running a the National Art Gallery of Namibia in Windhoek. Entrance free. 

Love Matters meets the Rabbit Hole, Article in the Namibian Sun, 5th of June 2013

June 6, 2013

"I 

           love 

            typography, 
                                      I think I was born with text in my pocket," 

an excited Niina says in the article written by a journalist from the Namibian Sun. Niina wished to spend more time in a conversation but the journalist was very busy. 
Rabbit Hole, Love Matters impresses
The current exhibition at the National Art Gallery of Namibia was inspired by the insane (Freud, you are right here!!!) society. The inspiration for the logo of Love Matters in Art is a appropriation design of the past Land Matters in Art project. Love Matters was created to play with viewers eyes here in the Namibian society. What you see is not what you get. 

Typography and the exhibition, all the posters, whether on the streets or visiting the gallery, question your EYES and seeing. When hear what we wish to hear, and we see what we are conditioned to see. 

Kunsuitstalling 'n spanpoging oor maatskaplike kwessies


To better understand the visual culture one needs to understand that nothing is real. 

The new Minister of Truth and Typography will go on a Road Show Journey in the near future.
T O N I G H T 


His Story is being MADE

The National Art Gallery of Namibia fills with 
D E S I G N G R A F I Q U E 
text le tt ers graphic design, 
P A P E R 
come and meet the Minister of Truth.

We are all influenced our visual culture, 
we just do not necessarily know it, 
truly.

Love Matters in Art starts a discussion about
graphic design and  
what graphic design should look like 
and why. 

Based on reading the news she has collected articles, 
texts, she has transformed the texts with her magical 
typographic pen into posters, posters with honesty.

Facebook link to the event here



June 5, 2013

















Posters in Action!

Vol.037 Poster is out on the streets. 

New Media Design students from the College of the Arts are distributing 130 posters in Windhoek.

They will observe and report what happens around the poster, in the interaction on the street, during 10 minutes after posting. Research through graphic design. 

This project gives alternative views on what graphic design is as an academic field of study,  research and action. Graphic design is and should be conceptual thinking. What it should not be is playing around with unnecessary elements. Unfortunately we see mostly visual pollution on the streets and in our surrounding environment. This project is another option to design, to design with mind, not with tools.

June 3, 2013

Love Matters in Art strikes a pose on the centerfold, 

The Centerfold Girl! 

Vol 012. Love Matters in Art reproduces texts, works on the streets, hangs out at the National Art Gallery of Namibia

This article was collected, retyped for Sister Namibia magazine, June 2013. 

centerfold |ˈsentərˌfōld|nounthe two middle pages of a magazine, typically taken up by a single illustration or feature.• an illustration on such pages, typically a picture of a naked or scantily clad model.