Home
a better world through creativity
  • Home
    • About Design Indaba
    • Design Indaba News
    • Projects
    • Press Room
  • Emerging Creatives
  • News & Features
    • Design News
    • Africa Now
    • Creative Work
    • Interviews
    • Next Generation
    • Design Frontiers
    • African Design
    • Design Activism
    • Videos
  • Conference Talks
    • Video Archive (2006 – present)
  • Designer Directory

    • Our database of African and international creatives and companies making waves in the design world.

Designer Directory

Our database of African and international creatives and companies making waves in the design world.
Join the Directory

Featured

This is a featured profile in the Designer Directory, our curated database of designers, creative agencies and businesses from around the world. Join top designers in our premium directory by applying below.

Join Now
All
Featured
Speakers
  • Pro-account
    Jona Schilling
    Ceramicist
    The 22 year-old hopes to add his contemporary ceramics to South Africa's design scene.
    Pretoria, South Africa
  • Speaker 2007
    Jurgen Bey
    Product Designer
    Jurgen Bey is a Dutch product, furniture, interior and public space designer.
    Eindhoven, Netherlands
  • Speaker 2012
    Bjarke Ingels
    Architect
    Bjarke Ingels is a member of a new generation of architects that combine shrewd analysis, playful experimentation, social responsibility and humour.
    Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Sharon Worrall Speaker 1995
    Sharon Worrall
    Author
    Meet Sharon Worrall: Wife, Mother, Author, Alchoholic.
    South Africa
  • Standard
    Lorraine Raaths
    Photographer
    A conceptual photographer with an eye for the surreal
    South Africa
  • Speaker 2005
    Silvio Rech and Lesley Carstens
    Architect
    Architects Silvio Rech and Lesley Carstens have spent the past 14 years developing a "hand-crafted haute couture" body of work in Africa.
    Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Speaker 2011
    Hugh Masekela
    Musician
    Born in 1939, South African trumpeter, bandleader, composer and lyricist, Hugh Masekela, is loved by jazz, bebop, funk and Afrobeat fans the world over.
    Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Speaker 2009
    Sandhya Lalloo
    Fashion Designer
    Sandhya Lalloo won the Vukani Design Award for Best Young Designer in 2003.
    Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Dan Wieden Speaker 2015
    Dan Wieden
    Advertising Executive
    Dan Wieden is an American advertising executive who co-founded Wieden+Kennedy and coined the Nike tagline "Just Do It".
    New York, USA
  • Ilse Crawford Speaker 2008
    Ilse Crawford
    Brand Specialist / Creative Director
    Ilse Crawford's Studioilse creates the big idea behind a brand through its emotional values, and then makes them visible and tangible through design.
    London, United Kingdom
  • Alinah Seloane Missouri Pro-account
    Alinah Seloane Missouri
    Fashion Curator
    Alinah Seloane Missouri is an influential force in the SA fashion scene.
    Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Moeko Selebalo Pro-account
    Moeko Selebalo
    Designer
    Moeko Selebalo started mark-making on lined paper using lead pencils at the tender age of 4
    Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Carina Bonse Speaker 2017
    Carina Bonse
    Art Director
    Carina "The Wizard" Bonse is an Art Direction and Design graduate from Red & Yellow, South Africa, who won Loerie Awards in her first, second and third years.
    Cape Town, South Africa
  • Ivan Brown Pro-account
    Ivan Brown
    Industrial Designer
    Ivan Brown is an agriculture-minded industrial designer with a penchant for the bee.
    Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Chaz Maviyane-Davies Speaker 2001
    Chaz Maviyane-Davies
    Graphic Designer
    Chaz Maviyane-Davies' graphic design work pushes the boundaries of social justice, which he had grappled with well into his adulthood.
    Zimbabwe
  • Speaker
    Iina Vuorivirta
    Designer
    IKEA’s in-house designer Iina Vuorivirta has learned to challenge briefs and make use of waste materials.
    Sweden, Finland
  • Pro-account
    Leah Bessa
    Food Designer
    Leah Bessa incorporates insects into delicious foods.
    Cape Town, South Africa
  • Jasper Morrison Speaker 2007
    Jasper Morrison
    Product Designer
    Jasper Morrison is a British product and furniture designer born in London.
    London, United Kingdom
  • Joe Kieser Speaker 1995
    Joe Kieser
    Brand Specialist
    Joe Kieser is recognized as one of the pioneers and global leaders in brand strategy, applied design and product development.
    South Africa
  • Thabiso Joyisa Standard
    Thabiso Joyisa
    Designer
    A Durban creative behind an architectural student movement to transform academic and social space.
    Durban, South Africa
  • Speaker 2011
    Joseph Saavedra
    Interaction Designer
    Joseph Saavedra is product designer interested in exploring the relationship between the human body and environment.
    New York, USA
  • Speaker 2009
    Arno Mathies
    Industrial Designer
    As a designer Mathies explores various media and methods, and spent a year working closely with a carpenter to investigate different production processes.
    Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Speaker 2011
    Bibliothèque
    Graphic Designer
    Bibliothèque is a design consultancy that produces captivating design solutions, underpinned by conceptual thinking, detail and innovative production.
    London, United Kingdom
  • Pro-account
    Max Bauer Nelson-Tansley
    Graphic Designer
    A graphic designer who is changing the mini-zine publication game in South Africa.
    Cape Town, South Africa
  • Pro-account
    Jona Schilling
    Ceramicist
    The 22 year-old hopes to add his contemporary ceramics to South Africa's design scene.
    Pretoria, South Africa
  • Load more

Topics

Browse Design Indaba content by various topics and creative sectors.
  • Architecture & Interiors. Trätoppen: Anders Berensson Architects is set to transform an old parking lot in Stockholm into a multi-use wooden skyscraper.
    Architecture & Interiors
  • Design Thinking
  • Industtrial design. Go by Benjamin Hubert: Design with meaning
    Industrial Design
  • Product Design. The zero gravity Lyfe planter
    Product Design
  • Interaction design: Alex McDowell designed the interactive universe of Minority Report
    Interaction Design
  • Information design. A More Inclusive Pedestrian Wayfinding System by Deborah Abidakun builds on the existing "Legible London" system to create an enhanced and more user-friendly navigation system
    Information Design
  • Art & Photography
    Art & Photography
  • Creative economy: Ali Ali, film director at Elephant, Cairo, on unconventional design
    Creative Economy
  • Forces favourites
    Design Activism
  • Fashion & Jewellery Design
    Fashion & Jewellery Design
  • craft
    Craft
  • Urban & Landscape Design - Christo land art
    Urban & Landscape Design
  • Graphic Design & Illustration. Image Credit: Leigh Le Roux
    Graphic Design & Illustration
  • African Design topic
    African Design
  • food design
    Food Design
  • Music & Sound Design
    Music & Sound Design
  • Film and animation topic. Syria’s refugee children tell their stories in an animated series
    Film & Animation
Sign up to our newsletter
Sign up to Design Indaba Weekly for the latest design news and inspiration. Sign up to Design Indaba News for updates on Design Indaba events and projects.
Design Indaba (select one or both)
  • About
  • Contact
  • Advertise
  • Submit Work
  • Login
  • Sitemap
  • Terms of Use
Design Indaba®, Cape Town Design Week® and South African Design Week® are registered trademarks of Interactive Africa.
Design Indaba is the founding event of Cape Town Design Festival™ and South African Design Festival™.
© 1995 - 2026 | Design Indaba. All Rights Reserved.