Nkhensani Nkosi is one of the new voices from Africa: fashion designer, entrepreneur, television personality and lauded actress. Her distinctive Stoned Cherrie fashion label was born when Nkosi recognised that the urban energy that exists on the continent was not being branded and packaged into products.

Jo Noero is a professor of Architecture at the University of Cape Town and principal at Noero Wolff Architects. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Architecture from the University of Natal, SA; a Masters from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK; and an Honorary Doctorate of Science from the University of Brighton, UK.

Garth Walker trained as a graphic designer and photographer at Technikon Natal in Durban in the mid 1970s.

He later founded Orange Juice Design in Durban in 1995, one of South Africa’s best-known graphic design studios and one of the very few with an international reputation. In 2008 Walker again went solo with his new studio, Mister Walker.

Richard Hart is a designer, illustrator, type nut and – most recently – a weekend artist. He is happiest when he’s making. His output includes posters, publications, flyers, packaging, furniture, interiors, exhibition design, painting, sculpture and a few objects that are less easily described.

Haldane Martin qualified as an industrial designer at the Cape Tech in 1992, also winning the Style Student Award. From these promising beginnings he moved on to work for Richard Sparks Industrial Design consultancy but, just a year later, branched off on his own to develop furniture and homeware designs.