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Design Indaba Conference 2013 27 February 2013 to 01 March 2013

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Design Indaba Conference 2013 takes place from Wednesday 27 February to Friday 1 March 2013 at the Cape Town International Convention Centre. A live Simulcast is hosted at the same time at various venues around Southern Africa.

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26 Feb | 14:00 Conference Registration

Tuesday, 26 February, 2013 - 14:00 to 18:00

Registration is at the CTICC on Tuesday, from 14:00 to 19:00. Your conference pass includes access to one paid event on the Music Circuit and a guest pass to the Expo. Your conference accreditation gets you into the Expo on Friday and at the sneak preview over the extended lunchbreak on Thursday, so please reserve your Expo guest pass for Saturday or Sunday.

During the Conference, late registration will be open on Wednesday from 07:00 to 18:00; Thursday from 07:00 to 17:00; and Friday from 07:00 to 10:00.

27 Feb | 7:30 YDS Registration

Wednesday, 27 February, 2013 - 07:30

Registration for the Young Designers Simulcast - in all four cities - happens between 07:30 and 09:00, at the YDS venue. Click here for venue information.

Young Designers Simulcast

The Young Designers Simulcast lets under-25s experience a live broadcast of the Design Indaba Conference, at a discounted rate.

27 Feb | 8:45 Conference day 1

Wednesday, 27 February, 2013 - 08:45 to 17:00

Welcome address at 09:00. Speaker schedule below.

27 Feb | 9:15 Paula Scher

Wednesday, 27 February, 2013 - 09:15

Graphic Designer

Paula Scher is a graphic designer and partner at Pentagram.

We look forward to welcoming renowned graphic designer Paula Scher on to the stage at Design Indaba Conference 2013.

27 Feb | 10:00 Seymour Chwast

Wednesday, 27 February, 2013 - 10:00

Graphic Designer

Seymour Chwast is a graphic designer and founding partner of Push Pin Studios.

27 Feb | 11:00 Ben Terrett

Wednesday, 27 February, 2013 - 11:00

Ben Terrett is head of design at the Government Digital Service, Cabinet Office for the UK Government.

27 Feb | 11:40 Alexander Chen

Wednesday, 27 February, 2013 - 11:40

Interaction Designer

Alexander Chen makes musical and interactive works, collaborating with the likes of Google and The Barbarian Group.

Alexander Chen turned a subway schedule into a string instrument. Here's how it works...

27 Feb | 12:20 Delegate lunch

Wednesday, 27 February, 2013 - 12:20

27 Feb | 13:30 Oscar Diaz

Wednesday, 27 February, 2013 - 13:30

Product Designer

Oscar Diaz is a product designer interested in understanding, exploring and questioning objects.

Toys from tubes

Because so often children enjoy the packaging more than the toys inside, Oscar Diaz has created a range of toys that actually incorporate the packaging.

27 Feb | 14:10 Pecha Kucha

Wednesday, 27 February, 2013 - 14:10

Leanie van der Vyver

Leanie van der Vyver's designs are bold and provocative. Her Scary Beautiful shoes went viral, with some four million views on Vimeo.

Wael Morcos is a graphic designer with an interest in Arabic typography.

Product Designer

Joschua Brunn is a product design graduate from ECAL in Switzerland, interested in creating human-centred products.

Michael Grigoriev

Michael Grigoriev is a design strategist exploring the role design plays in catalysing social change.

Photo: williambeaucardet.

Marguerite Humeau

Marguerite Humeau is a speculative designer and director of a design trilogy.

Howard Chambers

Howard Chambers is a recent graduate of the Transdisciplinary Design MFA programme at Parsons the New School for Design.

Bland Hoke is a recent graduate of the Transdisciplinary Design MFA programme at Parsons the New School for Design.

Pieter-Jan Pieters

Pieter-Jan Pieters is a recent Design Academy Eindhoven graduate interested in innovation, design, technology, engineering and fun.

27 Feb | 15:40 Masashi Kawamura

Wednesday, 27 February, 2013 - 15:40

SOUR "Hibi no Neiro" by Masashi Kawamura

A Japanese band's fans from across the world feature in their music video, thanks to just a webcam and the creative experimentation of Masashi Kawamura.

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Masashi Kawamura

Creative Director

Masashi Kawamura is a creative director and founder of the creative lab PARTY, with offices in Tokyo and New York.

27 Feb | 16:15 John Maeda

Wednesday, 27 February, 2013 - 16:15

John Maeda

President of Rhode Island School of Design

John Maeda is president of the Rhode Island School of Design.

28 Feb | 8:45 Conference day 2

Thursday, 28 February, 2013 - 08:45 to 17:00

Speaker schedule below.

28 Feb | 9:00 Steven Heller

Thursday, 28 February, 2013 - 09:00

Steven Heller is an art director, journalist, critic, editor and author of more than 150 books on graphic design and popular culture themes.

28 Feb | 9:40 Louise Fili

Thursday, 28 February, 2013 - 09:40

Graphic Designer

Louise Fili is a graphic designer specialising in food packaging and restaurant identities.

Elegant & alluring

Celebrated graphic designer Louise Fili will be speaking at Design Indaba Conference 2013. Here's a sneak peek into her creative portfolio.

28 Feb | 10:50 Jeanne van Heeswijk

Thursday, 28 February, 2013 - 10:50

Jeanne van Heeswijk

Interaction Designer, Artist

Jeanne van Heeswijk is a visual artist specialising in interaction design. She will be speaking at Design Indaba Conference 2013.

28 Feb | 11:30 Alex Atala

Thursday, 28 February, 2013 - 11:30

Alex Atala is an acclaimed Brazilian chef whose work is concerned with traditional Brazilian cuisine, using native ingredients.

Tastes of Brazil

For more than 10 years now Alex Atala has been on a quest to change the history of modern Brazilian cuisine.

28 Feb | 12:10 Extended delegate lunch & sneak preview of Expo

Thursday, 28 February, 2013 - 12:10

28 Feb | 13:50 Nicholas Hlobo

Thursday, 28 February, 2013 - 13:50

Nicholas Hlobo at Design Indaba 2013

Nicholas Hlobo is a South African artist, fast gaining an international reputation for his experimental use of materials.

Rubber and ribbon

From rural roots to international recognition, we look forward to welcoming Nicholas Hlobo to Design Indaba Conference 2013.

28 Feb | 14:30 Asif Khan

Thursday, 28 February, 2013 - 14:30

Asif Khan's work embraces the fields of architecture, industrial and furniture design, pushing the disciplines in interesting new directions.

28 Feb | 15:30 Martí Guixé

Thursday, 28 February, 2013 - 15:30

Food Designer, Industrial Designer, Interior Designer, Product Designer

Martí Guixé is a Catalonian interior and industrial designer living in Barcelona.

Industry meets interior

We look forward to welcoming Martí Guixé as a speaker to Design Indaba Conference 2013.

28 Feb | 16:10 Daan Roosegaarde

Thursday, 28 February, 2013 - 16:10

Daan Roosegaarde

Artist, Interaction Designer

Daan Roosegaarde is an artist and innovator, interested in exploring the dawn of a new nature evolving from technological innovations.

Intimacy 2.0. Photo: Daan Roosegaarde.

Feelings of intimacy

Be still my beating heart... or my feelings will show! The Intimacy 2.0 garments turn less or more transparent in response to the wearer's heartbeat.

1 Mar | 8:45 Conference day 3

Friday, 1 March, 2013 - 08:45 to 17:00

Speaker schedule below.

1 Mar | 9:00 Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg

Friday, 1 March, 2013 - 09:00

Daisy Ginsberg: Synthetic Biology

Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg explores how synthetic biology and design can be utilised to do useful things, engineering a better future.

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Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg

Artist / Designer, Writer

Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg is an artist, designer and writer investigating futures for design.

Advanced bacteria

Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg investigates the relationship between design and science in her project "E. chromi".

1 Mar | 9:40 Matthew Carter

Friday, 1 March, 2013 - 09:40

Matthew Carter is a type designer with some 50 years' experience, having designed some of the world's most recognised fonts.

1 Mar | 10:50 Christoph Niemann

Friday, 1 March, 2013 - 10:50

Christoph Niemann

Graphic Designer, Illustrator, Animator

Christoph Niemann is an illustrator, graphic designer and author. He has been a speaker at Design Indaba Conference, in 2006 and 2013.

Imagination in graphics

We look forward to welcoming Christoph Niemann as a speaker to Design Indaba Conference 2013.

1 Mar | 11:30 Marian Bantjes & Jessica Hische

Friday, 1 March, 2013 - 11:30

Graphic Designer

Marian Bantjes has been variously described as a typographer, designer, artist and writer.

Illustrator, Graphic Designer

Jessica Hische is a letterer, illustrator, and self-described “avid internetter”.

Illustration & the internet

We look forward to welcoming Jessica Hische, letterer, illustrator and "internetter", as a speaker to Design Indaba Conference 2013.

1 Mar | 12:30 Delegate lunch

Friday, 1 March, 2013 - 12:30

1 Mar | 13:45 Nelly Ben Hayoun

Friday, 1 March, 2013 - 13:45

Nelly Ben Hayoun presents her new film, The International Space Orchestra.

The International Space Orchestra trailer

A film capturing the behind-the-scenes action during the creation of the world's first International Space Orchestra.

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Nelly Ben Hayoun

Interaction Designer

Nelly Ben Hayoun is a director and experience designer.

1 Mar | 14:25 Daniel Charny

Friday, 1 March, 2013 - 14:25

Daniel Charny is an independent curator and cofounder of creative projects consultancy From Now On.

1 Mar | 15:35 David Adjaye

Friday, 1 March, 2013 - 15:35

David Adjaye at AZA 2012

As a discipline architecture needs to rethink what it does best, and how it serves people, David Adjaye believes.

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David Adjaye OBE is principal architect of Adjaye Associates.

1 Mar | 16:15 Sir John Hegarty

Friday, 1 March, 2013 - 16:15

Sir John Hegarty

Sir John Hegarty is a creative and founder of Bartle Bogle Hegarty advertising. He will be speaking at Design Indaba Conference 2013.

Distinctly different

Sir John Hegarty, creative and founder of BBH, will be speaking at Design Indaba Conference 2013. Here are some highlights from his creative portfolio.