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  • Haldane Martin - photo by Guido Schwarz Speaker 2007
    Haldane Martin
    Furniture Designer / Industrial Designer / Interior Designer
    Haldane Martin is a Cape Town-based designer known for his iconic furniture and interior designs for his eponymous company.
    Cape Town, South Africa
  • Tshepiso Lekganyane Pro-account
    Tshepiso Lekganyane
    Jewellery Designer
    Tshepiso Lekganyane is a young jewellery designer.
    South Africa
  • Jens Martin Skibsted Speaker 2011
    Jens Martin Skibsted
    Product Designer
    Jens Martin Skibsted is a philosopher, entrepreneur, brand expert, poet and revolutionary. He is also a cutting-edge bicycle designer
    Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Jaime Hayon Speaker 2016
    Jaime Hayón
    Artist / Industrial Designer / Product Designer
    Madrid-based Jaime Hayón is an artist-designer known for the bold-yet-whimsical look and feel he brings to his work.
    Valencia, Spain
  • Ferran Adrià Speaker 2009
    Ferran Adrià
    Chef
    Ferran Adrià is the famed head chef of elBulli in Spain, the 3-Michelin-star restaurant that was ranked the best in the world from 2006 to 2009.
    Barcelona, Spain
  • Lumka Jordan Pro-account
    Lumka Jordan
    Architect / Interior Designer
    Lumka’s passion for creativity started at early age, where she drew dresses and popular cartoon characters such as Goku.
    Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Francois Knoetze Speaker 2016
    Francois Knoetze
    Artist / Performance Artist / Sculptor
    Francois Knoetze is a performance artist, sculptor and filmmaker. His work traces the life cycles of discarded objects.
    Grahamstown, Cape Town
  • Alfredo Brillembourg is an architect and urban designer redefining the socio-economic system to overcome the emergent challenges in rapid urbanisation. Speaker 2016
    Alfredo Brillembourg
    Architect / Urban Designer
    Alfredo Brillembourg is an architect and urban designer redefining the socio-economic system to overcome the emergent challenges in rapid urbanisation.
    Caracas, Venezuela
  • Hilary Cottam Speaker 2016
    Hilary Cottam
    Social Entrepreneur
    Hilary Cottam is a designer, innovator and social entrepreneur who pioneers the use of design for social change.
    London, United Kingdom
  • Clara Mar Hernández López Speaker 2016
    Clara Mar Hernández López
    Architect
    Clara Mar Hernández López is an architect with a special interest in sustainable design.
    USA
  • Safia Qureshi Speaker 2016
    Safia Qureshi
    Architect / Entrepreneur
    Safia Qureshi is an award-winning architect, social designer, entrepreneur and one half of Studio [D] Tale.
    London, United Kingdom
  • Speaker 2007
    Milton Glaser
    Graphic Designer
    Born in 1929, Milton Glaser is among the most celebrated graphic designers in the United States.
    New York, USA
  • Naama Schendar Speaker 2016
    Naama Schendar
    Artist
    Multidisciplinary artist Naama Schendar explores identity and individuality through constructed methods of experiencing empathy.
    London, United Kingdom
  • Hellicar & Lewis Speaker 2012
    Hellicar & Lewis
    Artist / Interaction Designer
    Pete Hellicar and Joel Lewis use art, design and technology to create experiences that take people into the moment.
    London, United Kingdom
  • Pia Nyakairu Speaker 2016
    Pia Nyakairu
    Industrial Designer
    Ugandan industrial designer Pia Nyakairu focuses on remote rehabilitation for breast cancer patients.
    Toronto, Canada
  • Speaker 2017
    Nelly Ben Hayoun
    Interaction Designer
    Known as the Willy Wonka of design and science, experience designer Nelly Ben Hayoun is a director and creator of the impossible.
    London, United Kingdom
  • "Light is a thing of beauty in that it overcomes darkness" - W&N Studio, London-based image makers, artists and filmmakers Speaker 2016
    Warren du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones
    Art Director / Filmmaker / Photographer
    "Light is a thing of beauty in that it overcomes darkness" - W&N Studio, London-based image makers, artists and filmmakers.
    London, United Kingdom
  • Massimo and Lella Vignelli Speaker 2007
    Massimo and Lella Vignelli
    Graphic Designer / Product Designer
    Massimo Vignelli (1931 to 2014) and his wife and partner Lella cofounded Vignelli Associates, and Vignelli Center for Design Studies.
    New York, USA
  • Speaker 2013
    Martí Guixé
    Food Designer / Industrial Designer / Interior Designer
    Martí Guixé is a Catalonian interior and industrial designer living in Barcelona.
    Spain
  • Speaker 2005
    Garth Walker
    Graphic Designer
    Garth Walker is a Durban-based graphic designer and founder of Orange Juice Design and Mister Walker.
    Durban, South Africa
  • Speaker 2016
    Kazuya Kawasaki
    Fashion Designer / Speculative Designer
    Kazuya Kawasaki is a fashion designer and a student in Keio University’s SFC X design programme. He is trying to create a new era of "speculative fashion".
    Tokyo, Japan
  • Naomi Zwane Pro-account
    Naomi Zwane
    Graphic Designer / Illustrator
    Johannesburg-based Naomi Zwane is a graphic designer, artist and illustrator
    Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Sean O'Toole Speaker 2006
    Sean O’Toole
    Editor / Journalist / Writer
    Sean O’Toole is a Cape Town-based journalist and editor.
    Cape Town, South Africa
  • Christian Benimana Speaker 2016
    Christian Benimana
    Architect
    Christian Benimana believes that architecture must go beyond the design of the building and into an understanding of how buildings impact the lives of users.
    Kigali, Rwanda
  • Haldane Martin - photo by Guido Schwarz Speaker 2007
    Haldane Martin
    Furniture Designer / Industrial Designer / Interior Designer
    Haldane Martin is a Cape Town-based designer known for his iconic furniture and interior designs for his eponymous company.
    Cape Town, South Africa
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