Search Speakers: Design Indaba 2002

Li Edelkoort is a trend forecaster, educator, curator and publisher based in Paris. She has fostered design’s creative talent as chairwoman of the Design Academy Eindhoven between 1998 and 2008.

Nadav Kander creates unfailingly beautiful photographs with the formal precision of a master photographer through genres as diverse as portraiture, landscape and still life.

For a man who’s been in advertising for 19 years, John Pace still has a surprisingly good head of hair. He started his career at Ogilvy & Mather in 1982, where he worked as an art director and later as a creative director. In 1996 he co-founded Bull Calvert Pace as creative partner.

Teresa Roviras has lived and worked in London since she graduated from Elisava Design School in Barcelona in 1987. She joined Michael Nash Associates, where she remained for six years, and in 1993 she jointly received a gold D&AD her collaboration on the packaging for Harvey Nichols’ Food Hall.

Born in 1947, Erik Spiekermann studied history of art and English in Berlin.

Michael Mack was born in Zimbabwe and moved to England in 1980 where he trained and worked as a lawyer. In 1989 he moved to Paris and then left law to study an arts MA. Now based in London, he is a freelance art director, editor, curator and writer.

Muzi Kuzwayo was born in Paynville, near Springs. He started his schooling at Nolwandle Lower Primary School and finished at Kenneth Masekela High in KwaThema.

Born in 1964, Marti Guixé is a Catalonian designer living in Barcelona and Berlin. He graduated in interior design from Elisava in Barcelona in 1985 and studied industrial design at Scuola Polytecnica di Design di Milano in 1986.

Shigeru Ban (born 1957 in Tokyo) is an accomplished Japanese and international architect, most famous for his innovative work with paper, particularly recycled cardboard paper tubes used to quickly and efficiently house disaster victims.

Graham Leigh is director and retail branding specialist for the HKLM Group in South Africa.