Speaking at Design Indaba 2016

This year's Design Indaba Conference brings the greatest minds in design and creativity from around the world to the stage of the Artscape in Cape Town.

Design Indaba presents a highly curated selection of the world’s most innovative thinkers across the creative sectors. Experience design stalwarts, exciting new creative renegades and designers transforming the world through creativity.

Speakers will be announced from December 2015 and tickets are available now.

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Watch videos from previous years in our Conference Talks section.

Christian Benimana: Architecture with a mission

Video Interviews > African Design / Architecture & Interiors

According to Benimana, before starting any project a designer must decide what his mission is and an architect must learn to think beyond the building. >

11 Feb 16 / Brand Collaboration
The evolution of immersive storytelling

Design News > Film & Animation / Interaction Design

Designer Alex McDowell works with cutting-edge experts to move entertainment into a new, more immersive and participatory experience for the viewer. >

9 Feb 16
Design Indaba's Global Graduates – these are the ones to watch

Design News > African Design / Architecture & Interiors / Art & Photography / Design Thinking

We'd like to introduce you to the talented Global Graduates who’ll be presenting their work at the Design Indaba Conference 2016. >

8 Feb 16
Warren Du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones are known for their surreal approach to photography

Design News > Art & Photography / Film & Animation

Warren Du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones turn photography on its head with their unique artistic process. >

3 Feb 16
We talk to the elusive Danish artist and "social designer" known as FOS

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Art & Photography

Copenhagen-based artist FOS, a.k.a. Thomas Poulsen, is responsible for an eclectic mix of projects – from social housing to floating bars. >

3 Feb 16
Alfredo Brillembourg is the rebellious architect tackling South Africa’s housing crisis

Design News > African Design / Architecture & Interiors / Design Activism

Alfredo Brillembourg has designed and built the Empower Shack, an innovative, urban design solution to the housing crisis in South Africa’s townships. >

1 Feb 16
Elena Arzak is a leading figure in New Basque Cuisine

Design News > Food Design

World-renowned chef Elena Arzak is a pioneer in the food world and a visionary in the world of Basque gastronomy. >

29 Jan 16
The delightful and disobedient design of Jaime Hayón

Design News > Art & Photography / Product Design

Quirky Spanish designer Jaime Hayón has become well known for his curious pieces. >

26 Jan 16
Hilary Cottam on how design can fix social services

Inside View > Design Activism / Design Thinking

Social entrepreneur Hilary Cottam is working to help fix some of the biggest social problems of our time, using design as a tool for deep systemic change. >

25 Jan 16
Studio [D] Tale: A building isn’t always the solution

Video Interviews > African Design / Architecture & Interiors

Studio [D] Tale founders Maxwell Mutanda and Safia Qureshi look beyond the traditional distinctions of architectural practice. >

22 Jan 16
Fred Gelli: Design that unifies people, nature and the Olympic spirit

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration

The Rio 2016 logo, designed by Fred Gelli’s Tátil Design, is based on contagious energy, harmonious diversity, exuberant nature, and the Olympic spirit. >

21 Jan 16
Imogen Heap and the future of the music industry

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Music & Sound Design

Self-produced singer-songwriter Imogen Heap is an unusual digital diva with rare technical savvy and a personal vision for the future of the music industry. >

20 Jan 16
Pentagram's Naresh Ramchandani slates corporate jargon with a two minute rap

Design News > Creative Economy

Corporate slang is named and shamed in Pentagram partner Naresh Ramchandani's Gamechanger video. >

19 Jan 16
How getting out of your comfort zone can cure creative block

Q&A > African Design / Graphic Design & Illustration

Two South African creatives – inspired by a Design Indaba Conference Talk – quit their jobs, sold their belongings and hit the road >

15 Jan 16
The twins at the heart of comic culture in Cairo

Design News > African Design / Graphic Design & Illustration

Take a look at this gallery of illustrations created by Egyptian identical brothers who work under the name Twins Cartoon. >

13 Jan 16
Benjamin Hubert: Holistic designs to inspire change

Design News > Design Activism / Product Design

Award-winning designer Benjamin Hubert talks about using design to make things better. >

12 Jan 16
The Venus Bushfires: Afro-folk inspired by the goddess of the sea

Design News > African Design / Music & Sound Design

Nigerian-born singer-songwriter Helen Isibor-Epega, who performs under the name The Venus Bushfires, wrote the world's first ever Pidgin English opera. >

7 Jan 16
Erik Kessels: The era of democratisation

Video Interviews > Art & Photography

From shop window dresser as a child to children’s TV producer as an adult, and much else in between, Erik Kessels is a crossover "communicator". >

10 Dec 15
Assemble wins the Turner prize for their community-minded regeneration project in a run-down part of Liverpool

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Design Activism

Who could ever have imagined that a derelict street in Liverpool could win the Turner Prize? Assemble, the group responsible for it, certainly didn’t. >

8 Dec 15
Introducing Snask: A creative agency that (literally) rocks

Inside View > Creative Economy / Film & Animation / Graphic Design & Illustration

Snask, a Swedish creative agency who moonlight as a rock band, give us the lowdown on creating and rejuvenating brands and getting enough sleep to be creative. >

4 Dec 15
Local Studio is leading urban transformation in Johannesburg’s inner city

Inside View > African Design / Architecture & Interiors

Founded by Thomas Chapman, Local Studio is dedicated to urban transformation through design schemes that involve state, community and private business. >

19 Nov 15
Sou Fujimoto challenges perceptions of what could be considered architecture

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto uses potato chips and staples to comment on the notion of “found architecture”. >

13 Oct 15
Q&A: Van Eijk & Van der Lubbe

Inside View > Industrial Design / Product Design

The duo behind Van Eijk & Van der Lubbe may be partners in business and love, but their creative differences also fuel their work. >

8 Apr 15
Margaret Calvert: Know your audience

Video Interviews > Graphic Design & Illustration

In this interview at AGI Open 2013, British typographer Margaret Calvert talks about road signs and what the driver needs. >

1 Nov 13