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Brian Collins

Advertising Executive

Creative juggernaut Brian Collins, co-founder and CCO of Collins agency in New York, works towards revitalising massive brands. >
How can photography help us understand depression?

A photographer who portrays his relationship with mental illness in an honest, yet dreamlike way. >
Limit(less) by Mikael Owunna

LGBTQ style in the African diaspora. >
Using stomach acid to power sensory tech-tablets

This tiny monitor is designed to rest in your digestive system and sustain itself with it. >
Beth Kleber

Beth Kleber is the founding Archivist of the Milton Glaser Design Study Center and Archives and the School of Visual Arts Archives in New York City. >
7 Creative habits to inspire your everyday

You can wait until inspiration strikes or until your muse arrives. Or you can start fostering your imagination today by developing a creative habit. >
Ayse Birsel

Product Designer

Co-founder and creative director of the award-winning design studio Birsel + Seck, Ayse Birsel is also a teacher and the author of "Design the Life You Love". >
Nomad: A digital guide for the visually impaired

Student designs a headset concept to tackle some of the challenges faced by the visually impaired in their daily lives. >
Interplanetary blackness in DUST’s latest animated series

Afrofuturism: Sun Ra explores alternative realities rooted in history and culture. >
#WeAccept: AirBnB Super Bowl ad calls out Trump with a celebration of diversity

The homestay network is pushing a powerful new message of acceptance. >
Revealing hidden humanity through photography

This artist uses visual trickery to depict the otherwise concealed inner self. >
Bo-Won Keum

Graphic Designer

Bo-Won Keum is a storyteller and graphic design graduate from The Rhode Island School of Design. >
Grace Jun

Social Entrepreneur

Grace Jun is designer and self-taught coder. Her work examines functional fashion for inclusion with the aim to anchor wearable tech to the human experience. >
Rhys Jones

Industrial Designer

Rhys Jones strives to make excellent products that are sustainable and socially responsible. >
Light-printable and rewritable paper is here

Researchers have discovered an eco-friendly way to print on paper >
Isis Shiffer

Product Designer

Isis Shiffer is an industrial designer and founder of Spitfire Industry, a design consultancy in Brooklyn that focusses on sustainability and transportation. >
Data is emotional

Artist and designer Ekene Ijeoma, who is speaking at Design Indaba 2017, humanises intangible data to trigger empathy and compassion. >
An instabition in misogynoir

Photographer Jacquelyn Iyamah created the Anti-Misogynoir Project to give women of a colour a platform to push their own narratives. >
Marko Ahtisaari

Interaction Designer • Social Entrepreneur

Tech entrepreneur Marko Ahtisaari is the CEO and co-founder of The Sync Project, which investigates the therapeutic effects of music on the body and mind. >
Ekene Ijeoma

Artist • Interaction Designer • Social Entrepreneur

Brooklyn-based Ekene Ijeoma is a socially-focused interdisciplinary artist and designer who uses data to translate overlooked facts into informed feelings. >
Freestyle Love Supreme and South African Koeksisters

Hip hop improv crew Freestyle Love Supreme is coming to Design Indaba 2017. They're looking forward to koeksisters, we're looking forward to spontaneous jams. >
Artificially intelligent spider robots

Bots_alive are intelligent and autonomous robot creatures. >
SA directed adidas Originals ad calls for the past to be a creative canvas for the future

A first for a South African-directed ad, the new adidas Originals global campaign “Original Is Never Finished” got millions of hits in its first couple of days. >
Step into the vivid visions of Tyler Spangler

This graphic designer uses music and emotion to create surreal artworks. >

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