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  • Ditiro Mashigo Pro-account
    Ditiro Mashigo
    Textile Designer
    This young creative has interesting ideas about upcycling and embellishment in fashion design.
    Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Speaker 2009
    AdamsMorioka
    Graphic Designer
    Sean Adams and Noreen Morioka founded media company AdamsMorioka in Beverly Hills in 1994.
    Los Angeles, USA
  • Speaker 2004
    Tyler Brûlé
    Writer / Editor
    London, United Kingdom
  • Speaker 2005
    Petra Blaisse
    Architect
    Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Loyiso Mkize Pro-account
    Loyiso Mkize
    Artist
    Loyiso Mkize is a Cape Townian visual artist and painter.
    Cape Town, South Africa
  • Kaki King. Photo by Shervin Lainez Speaker 2017
    Kaki King
    Musician
    American guitarist and composer Kaki King is known for her genre-defying percussive and jazz-like melodies and energetic live shows.
    New York, USA
  • Speaker 2004
    Shigeo Fukuda
    Graphic Designer
    Tokyo, Japan
  • Nobumichi Tosa Speaker 2009
    Nobumichi Tosa
    Artist / Performance Artist / Product Designer
    Nobumichi Tosa is a Japanese artist and founder of Maywa Denki, a design firm meets performance art collective.
    Japan
  • Speaker
    Markus Kayser
    Designer
    The German designer's work focuses on novel design and digital fabrication processes at the intersection of design, technology, and biology.
    Germany
  • Speaker 2013
    Seymour Chwast
    Graphic Designer
    Seymour Chwast is a graphic designer and founding partner of Push Pin Studios.
    New York, USA
  • Speaker 2009
    Roger Smythe
    Creative Director
    As creative director, Smythe’s direction of animation projects has led to the successful implementation and execution of award-winning campaigns.
    Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Haroon Gunn-Salie Speaker 2014
    Haroon Gunn-Salie
    Artist
    Cape Town-born artist Haroon Gunn-Salie translates community oral histories into artistic interventions and experiential installations.
    Cape Town, South Africa
  • Speaker 2011
    Stewart Levine
    Music Producer
    Stewart Levine is an American record producer who has worked with the likes of BB King, Jamie Cullum, Lionel Ritchie, Simply Red and Hugh Masekela.
    New York, USA
  • Speaker 2008
    Gert Dumbar
    Graphic Designer
    After completing his at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague and the Royal College of Art in London, Gert Dumbar opened the now prolific Studio Dumbar.
    International
  • Dean Poole of Alt Group. Speaker 2014
    Dean Poole
    Creative Director
    Dean Poole is co-founder and creative director of Alt Group, a multidisciplinary design studio based in New Zealand.
    Auckland, New Zealand
  • Speaker 2018
    Lonny van Ryswyck
    Product Designer
    A designer that sits at the crossroads of creativity, science and nature.
    Netherlands
  • Basia Dżaman Speaker 2016
    Basia Dżaman
    Industrial Designer
    Basia Dżaman, a graduate from the School of Form in Poland, is finding solutions to current and future problems.
    Poland
  • Coast & Koi Pro-account
    Coast & Koi
    Accessory Designer / Fashion Designer
    Coast & Koi designer Caryn Wilensky makes eye-catching footwear, incorporating locally inspired designs with African animal prints and beadwork.
    Cape Town, South Africa
  • Simon Castets Speaker 2014
    Simon Castets
    Curator
    Simon Castets, director and curator of the Swiss Institute, New York, is also the co-founder of the research project 89plus, along with Hans Ulrich Obrist.
    New York, USA
  • Bogosi Sekhukhuni Speaker 2014
    Bogosi Sekhukhuni
    Writer / Performance Artist
    Bogosi Sekhukhuni is a Johannesburg-based writer and performance artist.
    Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Zinhle Nxumalo Pro-account
    Zinhle Nxumalo
    Fashion Designer
    Afozee is the brainchild of Zinhle Nxumalo, aspiring fashion designer and social impact activist.
    Rosebank, South Africa
  • Speaker 2013
    Jessica Hische
    Illustrator / Graphic Designer
    Jessica Hische is a letterer, illustrator, and self-described “avid internetter”.
    San Francisco, USA
  • Experimental Jetset Speaker 2014
    Experimental Jetset
    Design Studio / Graphic Designer
    Experimental Jetset is a small, independent, Amsterdam-based graphic design studio, consisting of Marieke Stolk, Erwin Brinkers and Danny van den Dungen.
    Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Alice Rawsthorn Speaker
    Alice Rawsthorn
    Author / Design Critic
    Design critic and the author of the critically acclaimed books Design as an Attitude and Hello World: Where Design Meets Life.
    London, United Kingdom
  • Ditiro Mashigo Pro-account
    Ditiro Mashigo
    Textile Designer
    This young creative has interesting ideas about upcycling and embellishment in fashion design.
    Johannesburg, South Africa
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