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.

Sandhya Lalloo won the Vukani Design Award for Best Young Designer in 2003. Determined to showcase her skills, she subsequently founded SIN, her clothing label, and has since supplied a number of leading retail stores in South Africa.

Revital Cohen recently attained a Masters in Design Interactions from the Royal College of Art in London, which followed a BA in Contemporary Furniture Design from Buckinghamshire New University. As a designer and researcher she develops critical objects and provocative scenarios exploring the juxtaposition of the natural with the artificial.

Architect Luyanda Mpahlwa is principal and director of MMA Architects in Cape Town. Mpahlwa completed his National Architectural Diploma in 1986 while serving a five-year term in Robben Island Prison, before going on to complete a Masters in Architecture at the Technical University of Berlin in 1997.

Nathan Reddy studied design in Natal at the ML Sultan School of Design. He began his career as a junior designer at FCB design where he remained for three years before moving to TBWA Hunt Lascaris as the head of design. In 1994 he joined Louis Gavin as a partner to form DDB South Africa.

Heath Nash holds a BA in Fine Art (sculpture) from the University of Cape Town. He was the Elle Decoration SA designer and lighting designer of the year in 2005/6, and also won the title of British Council South African Creative Entrepreneur of the Year in 2006.

Geraldine Fenn is a South African jeweller who received her national higher certificate in jewellery design and manufacture from the Natal Technikon in 1998. She also has qualifications in archaeology, classics, art history and fine art from the University of the Witwatersrand.

Amanda Laird Cherry is one of South Africa's most established fashion designers and one who has fused the development of her clothes with that of the country. She's been lauded in both local and international media including Y-Mag, Wallpaper, Dazed and Confused, British Vogue and Time magazine.

Born in Cape Town in 1958, political cartoonist and satirist Jonathan Shapiro was detained by security police in 1988, shortly before leaving on a Fulbright Scholarship to study media arts at the School of Visual Arts in New York.

Mark Dytham graduated from the Royal College of Art in London and established architectural firm Klein Dytham in Tokyo with Astrid Klein in 1991.