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  • Isabel Mager Speaker 2017
    Isabel Mager
    Social Entrepreneur
    Isabel Mager is an investigative and critical designer based in the Netherlands. Her work investigates culture and structures of power.
    Eindhoven, Netherlands
  • Speaker 2013
    Seymour Chwast
    Graphic Designer
    Seymour Chwast is a graphic designer and founding partner of Push Pin Studios.
    New York, USA
  • 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
  • Helen Isibor-Epega, otherwise The Venus Bushfires, is a Nigerian-born, London-raised composer, singer-songwriter and performance artist. Speaker 2016
    Helen Isibor-Epega
    Artist
    Helen Isibor-Epega, otherwise The Venus Bushfires, is a Nigerian-born, London-raised composer, singer-songwriter and performance artist.
    London, United Kingdom
  • Chris Gotz Speaker 2014
    Chris Gotz
    Creative Director
    Chris Gotz is the chief creative officer of Ogilvy & Mather South Africa.
    Cape Town, South Africa
  • Joy Mckinney at Design Indaba Conference 2014 Speaker 2014
    Joy Mckinney
    Photographer
    Joy Mckinney is a photographer and part of the Pecha Kucha at Design Indaba 2014 Conference.
    New York, USA
  • Carla Kreuser. Speaker 2015
    Carla Kreuser
    Graphic Designer / Illustrator
    Carla Kreuser is a creative director at The Jupiter Drawing Room in Cape Town.
    Cape Town, South Africa
  • Speaker 2007
    Lindy Roy
    Architect
    Undertaking projects of different sizes and scales the design firm has worked in environments as diverse as Alaska, New York, the Okavango Delta and Singapore.
    USA
  • 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
  • Larry Harvey. Speaker 2015
    Larry Harvey
    Art Director
    Larry Harvey is the founding board member and chief philosophic officer of Burning Man, an annual festival of arts in the Nevada desert.
    California, USA
  • Speaker 2012
    Brynjar Sigurðarson
    Product Designer
    Icelandic product designer Brynjar Sigurðarson is a 2011 ECAL graduate, and part of the Pecha Kucha team at Design Indaba Conference 2012.
    Iceland
  • Speaker 2009
    AdamsMorioka
    Graphic Designer
    Sean Adams and Noreen Morioka founded media company AdamsMorioka in Beverly Hills in 1994.
    Los Angeles, USA
  • Yoni Bloch Speaker 2015
    Yoni Bloch
    Interaction Designer / Musician
    With the tech wizardry of Interlude, Israeli musician and co-founder Yoni Bloch has made music videos an interactive experience rather than merely a visual one.
    Israel
  • Blinky Bill Speaker 2017
    Blinky Bill
    Music Producer
    Nairobi-based "Blinky" Bill Sellanga is a singer-songwriter, beat maker, producer and one fourth of Kenyan art and music collective, Just a Band.
    Nairobi, Kenya
  • Tom Hulme Speaker 2014
    Tom Hulme
    Design Director
    Tom Hulme former design director at global design firm IDEO and now general partner at Google Venture, is also the founder of OpenIDEO and OIEngine.
    London, United Kingdom
  • Malcolm Garrett Speaker 2003
    Malcolm Garrett
    Design Director / Graphic Designer
    Malcolm Garrett's iconic and intelligent design is recognised as a major influence on contemporary English graphic design.
    London, United Kingdom
  • Speaker 2013
    Jessica Hische
    Illustrator / Graphic Designer
    Jessica Hische is a letterer, illustrator, and self-described “avid internetter”.
    San Francisco, USA
  • Speaker 2012
    Sputniko!
    Artist
    Sputniko! is an artist and designer who creates machines, films and music that explores technology, feminism and pop culture.
    Tokyo, Japan
  • Marcus Fairs Speaker 2005
    Marcus Fairs
    Editor / Journalist / Writer
    Marcus Fairs is the founder and editor-in-chief of online architecture and design magazine, Dezeen.
    London, United Kingdom
  • Neri Oxman Speaker 2018
    Neri Oxman
    Architect / Designer / Inventor
    Architect, designer and inventor.
    Boston, USA
  • Michel Rojkind Image: © Rojkind Arquitectos, photo by Juan Rodrigo Llaguno Speaker 2014
    Michel Rojkind
    Architect
    Michel Rojkind is an architect and founder of rojkind arquitectos based in Mexico City, a practice that aims to design compelling experiences.
    Mexico City, Mexico
  • Kathryn Fleming Speaker 2015
    Kathryn Fleming
    Multidisciplinary Designer
    Kathryn Fleming is a multidisciplinary designer exploring the intersections of science, art and technology.
    USA
  • Speaker 2010
    Wooster Collective
    Curator
    The Wooster Collective are husband-and-wife team Marc and Sara Schiller.
    New York, USA
  • John Hunt Speaker 2006
    John Hunt
    Creative Director
    Zambian native John Hunt is the creative founding partner of TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris, widely accepted as one of the leading advertising agencies in the world.
    Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Isabel Mager Speaker 2017
    Isabel Mager
    Social Entrepreneur
    Isabel Mager is an investigative and critical designer based in the Netherlands. Her work investigates culture and structures of power.
    Eindhoven, Netherlands
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