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Chaz Maviyane-Davies has been described by the UKs Design magazine as the guerrilla of graphic design. For more than three decades the award-winning, controversial designers powerful work has taken on issues of consumerism, health, politics, social responsibility, the environment and human rights. He has studied (MA, the Central School of Art and Design in London) and worked in Britain, Japan, Malaysia, the US and Zimbabwe, his country of origin. From 1983 until recently he ran the renowned design studio in Harare, Zimbabwe, The Maviyane-Project.
Due to adverse political conditions in his homelandand the confrontational nature of his work, Maviyane-Davies moved to the USA in 2001, where he is currently a Professor of Design at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. As well as being published in numerous books, international magazines and newspapers, his work has been exhibited extensively and is included in several permanent collections at various galleries. In 2009 he was conferred an Honorary Doctorof Humane Letters degree from the Universityof Massachusetts Lowell.
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