Footwear designer Aki Choklat
EKA, auditoorium A-101
Start Date:
03.03.2022
Start Time:
16:00
End Date:
03.03.2022
EKA Accessory and Bookbinding Department is inviting all the footwear design lovers to an open lecture “The Aki Method: Surviving as a Designer in Today’s World” on Thursday, 3rd of March at 4-5 p.m. to EKA, room A-101.
The lecture is about how to live a successful design life in a world full of challenges through Aki Choklat’s prism. He will share his history, philosophy and experience in the design industries including education.
Aki Choklat is a fashion and footwear design professional with experience in all levels of the industry, from design to production. He is a Royal College of Art graduate, and the Founding Chair of Fashion Design Department at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit. He has held numerous positions with top-tier, international fashion labels, such as designing a capsule footwear collection for London-based menswear Diverso and consulted with numerous brands, such as Finnish footwear heritage brand Lahtiset. In addition, he directs his own London-based label of shoes, handbags and accessories. He helped establish and lead the footwear and accessories master program at Polimoda, Italy’s leading fashion school with Ferruccio Ferragamo at the helm, and has taught at the London College of Fashion and De Montfort University. Choklat is also a celebrated author of many design books, one of which – “Footwear Design” – is considered the authority on shoe design.
This lecture is part of the EKA Accessories and Bookbinding Department jubilee exhibition and other event series.
Exhibition “Perspectives” is open from 6- 31st of March at Põhjala tehas Sepikoja gallery (Marati 5, Tallinn). Information about rest of the events will be updated in web and social media continuously:
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The lecture is supported by the Estonian Cultural Endowment and the Baltic-American Freedom Foundation (BAFF).
Open lecture will be held in English without translation.
The lecture will be recorded and it will be rerun on EKA TV.