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  • The Joinery. Pro-account
    The Joinery
    Fashion Designer
    The Joinery creates organic and ethically mindful fashion.
    Cape Town, South Africa
  • Kaja Solgaard Dahl, Product and Interior Design, Beckmans College of Design, Sweden Speaker 2017
    Kaja Solgaard Dahl
    Product Designer / Scent Expert
    Kaja Solgaard Dahl is a product and furniture designer working with a wide range of products and materials that are all inspired by our senses and nature.
    Oslo, Norway
  • Speaker 2012
    Massoud Hassani
    Product Designer
    Massoud Hassani is an Afghan-born product designer interested in applying design thinking to solving complex social issues.
    Eindhoven, Netherlands
  • Airbnb founder Joe Gebbia Speaker 2017
    Joe Gebbia
    Entrepreneur
    Co-founder and CPO of Airbnb, designer Joe Gebbia changed the way people travel and interact with strangers with his peer-to-peer home-rental startup.
    San Francisco, USA
  • Speaker 2010
    Bruce Nussbaum
    Journalist / Educator
    A leading advocate for design thinking, as assistant managing-editor at BusinessWeek, Nussbaum founded the award-winning “Design & Innovation” online channel.
    New York, USA
  • Speaker 2012
    Piet Hein Eek
    Furniture Designer
    Piet Hein Eek has been using scraps of wood to create distinctive furniture pieces since long before sustainability became the designer buzzword it is today.
    Eindhoven, Netherlands
  • Speaker 2010
    ZA News
    Cartoonist / Puppeteer
    ZA News is the result of a long-term collaboration between political cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro (aka Zapiro), and film and TV producer Thierry Cassuto.
    Cape Town, South Africa
  • Speaker 2009
    Jannes Hendrikz
    Creative Director / Animator
    Jannes Hendrikz is the compositor and creative director of the Blackheart Gang by night, and TVC director for Shy the Sun by day
    Cape Town, South Africa
  • Speaker 2005
    Chip Kidd
    Graphic Designer / Writer
    "The history of book design can be split into two eras: before graphic designer Chip Kidd and after." – Time Out New York.
    USA
  • Speaker 2010
    Stefan G Bucher
    Graphic Designer / Illustrator
    Stefan G Bucher is the man behind 344 Design and the Daily Monster – an online drawing and storytelling experiment.
    Pasadena, USA
  • Speaker 2009
    Stephen Burks
    Product Designer
    With Readymade Projects Stephen, Burks has been responsible for creative design direction on projects from retail interiors and events to packaging.
    New York, USA
  • Coin Projects Pro-account
    Coin Projects
    Social Entrepreneur
    Design thinking, cell phones and South African education re-invented.
    Pretoria, South Africa
  • Speaker 2002
    Lewis Blackwell
    Creative Director / Writer
    United Kingdom
  • Speaker 2018
    Sunu Gonera
    Filmmaker
    The Cannes Lions award-winning filmmaker believes in authentic African storytelling.
    Zimbabwe
  • Speaker 2002
    Erik Spiekermann
    Writer / Typographer / Information Designer
    Germany
  • Speaker 2008
    Nkhensani Nkosi
    Fashion Designer
    Nkhensani Nkosi is the founder of the South African fashion label Stoned Cherrie.
    Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Speaker 2009
    Dai Fujiwara
    Fashion Designer
    Dai Fujiwara is the former Creative Director of Miyake Design Studio, the Japanese high-end producer of women's fashion.
    Tokyo, Japan
  • Amy Franceschini Speaker 2002
    Amy Franceschini
    Artist / Graphic Designer / Interaction Designer
    Amy Franceschini is a new media artist/designer working with notions of community, sustainable environments and the conflicting rituals of humans and nature.
    San Francisco, USA
  • Oliviero Toscani Speaker 2001
    Oliviero Toscani
    Photographer
    Oliviero Toscani is an Italian photographer best known for his controversial advertising campaigns for Benetton.
    Italy
  • Stefan Scholten and Carole Baijings. Image: Freudenthal/Verhagen Speaker 2014
    Scholten & Baijings
    Furniture Designer / Product Designer / Textile Designer
    Dutch design duo Scholten & Baijings’ interior products are typified by distinctly subtle use of form and colour.
    Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Nathan Reddy Speaker 2007
    Nathan Reddy
    Creative Director
    Nathan Reddy is the Digital and Communications curator for Design Indaba Expo 2015.
    Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Speaker 2011
    Christine Goudie
    Industrial Designer / Art Director
    Graphic designer turned industrial designer, Christine Goudie believes in involving the end user in the early stages of the design process.
    Ontario, Canada
  • Speaker 2012
    Mathieu Lehanneur
    Interior Designer / Product Designer
    Mathieu Lehanneur creates breakthrough work at the nexus of design and the human, biological structures, mathematical forms and science.
    Paris, France
  • Speaker 2007
    Front
    Product Designer
    Front is a Swedish design group of three dynamic women: Sofia Lagerkvist, Charlotte von der Lancken and Anna Lindgren.
    Stockholm, Sweden
  • The Joinery. Pro-account
    The Joinery
    Fashion Designer
    The Joinery creates organic and ethically mindful fashion.
    Cape Town, South Africa
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