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  • Basetsana Maluleka Standard
    Basetsana Maluleka
    This photographer left her finance studies to pursue her love for photography.
    Pretoria, South Africa
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    Kacper Pietrzykowski
    Product Designer
    Kacper is a graduate of the Design and Engineering Master's programme at Politecnico di Milano (Italy).
    Italy
  • Mondli Kunene Standard
    Mondli Kunene
    Artist
    The Soweto-born visual artist wants to use his paintings to foster social change.
    Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Mzoxolo x Mayongo Standard
    Mzoxolo x Mayongo
    Artist
    Conceptual artist and activist from Cape Town, based in Johannesburg.
    South Africa
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    Nendo
    Design Studio
    Nendo, by Oki Sato, has been called one of the most talented Japanese design firms working today.
    Singapore, Tokyo
  • Standard 2012
    Renée Rossouw
    Architect / Ceramicist / Product Designer
    Renée Rossouw is a graphic-orientated, colour-fixated architect-designer obsessed with comics, colour, patterns and everyday objects.
    Cape Town, South Africa
  • Dear Ribane Speaker 2017
    Dear Ribane
    Performance Artist
    "We are because each other." Introducing the Dear Ribane production company.
    Johannesburg, South Africa
  • James Cooper. Standard
    James Cooper
    Director
    James Cooper is an award-winning director, based in New York, Los Angeles, Sydney and Dublin.
    New York, USA
  • Maker Library Network Standard
    Thingking
    Industrial Designer
    Ambassadors of the Maker Library Network, Thingking are an award-winning design company based in Woodstock, Cape Town.
    Cape Town, South Africa
  • Chris Sheldrick Speaker 2017
    Chris Sheldrick
    Technology Designer
    Chris Sheldrick is the founder of what3words, an addressing app that assigns a sequence of three simple words to any location in the world.
    London, United Kingdom
  • Design Indaba Standard
    Design Indaba
    Publisher
    Design Indaba is a multifaceted platform committed to a better world through creativity.
    Cape Town, South Africa
  • Daniel Ting Chong Standard
    Daniel Ting Chong
    Illustrator
    Daniel Ting Chong is an illustrator, designer, artist and based in Cape Town, South Africa. He was part of Design Indaba's Emerging Creatives programme in 2008.
    Cape Town, South Africa
  • Illustration by Hanno van Zyl. Standard
    Alexander's Band
    Illustrator
    Alexander's Band is a Cape Town-based representation service for South African illustrators.
    Cape Town, South Africa
  • Takudzwa Dlamini Pro-account
    Takudzwa Dlamini
    Fashion Designer
    Takudzwa Dlamini is a South African fashion designer.
    Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Standard
    Thabo Makhetha Designs
    Fashion Designer
    Thabo Makhetha Designs is a Port Elizabeth-based fashion design and manufacturing company.
    Port Elizabeth, South Africa
  • Cheick Diallo Standard
    Cheick Diallo
    Architect
    Cheick Diallo is an architect and designer born in Bamako, Mali.
    Mali
  • Woza Moya. Standard
    Hillcrest AIDS Centre Woza Moya
    Social Entrepreneur
    Woza Moya is the income generation project of the Hillcrest AIDS Centre Trust.
    Durban, South Africa
  • Andile Dyalvane Speaker 2017
    Andile Dyalvane
    Ceramicist
    Renowned ceramicist and Design Indaba Emerging Creative alumnus, Majolandile ‘Andile’ Dyalvane is the founder of Imiso Ceramics.
    Cape Town, South Africa
  • Anthony Shapiro Standard
    Anthony Shapiro
    Ceramicist
    Ceramicist and executive director of Art in the Forest, Anthony Shapiro is the curator of the Handmade sector for Design Indaba Expo 2015.
    Cape Town, South Africa
  • Rodrigo Garcia Gonzalez Speaker
    Rodrigo Garcia Gonzalez
    Architect / Designer / Inventor
    Inventor, designer, architect and engineer.
    London, United Kingdom
  • Speaker
    Studio DRIFT
    Design Studio
    Dutch artists Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta founded studio DRIFT in 2007.
    Netherlands
  • Pro-account
    Minenhle Zazi Cira
    Industrial Designer / Product Designer
    Durban-based industrial designer.
    Durban, South Africa
  • Fashion Rising. Standard
    Fashion Rising
    Social Entrepreneur
    Studio One Eighty Nine launched Fashion Rising to empower women by building sustainable fashion and artisanal businesses.
    Ghana
  • Dokter and Misses Speaker 2017
    Dokter and Misses
    Product Designer
    Husband and wife team Dokter and Misses is a multidisciplinary design company based in Johannesburg.
    Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Basetsana Maluleka Standard
    Basetsana Maluleka
    This photographer left her finance studies to pursue her love for photography.
    Pretoria, South Africa
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