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  • Lucille Tenazas. Speaker 2002
    Lucille Tenazas
    Graphic Designer
    Lucille Tenazas is the Associate Dean and Henry Wolf Professor in the School of Art, Media and Technology (AMT) at Parsons School for Design.
    San Francisco, USA
  • Andile Speaker
    Andile Vellem
    Performance Artist
    Vellem began dancing at an early age inspired by his parents who were ballroom dancers.
    South Africa
  • Speaker 2005
    Pierre Terblanche
    Automotive Designer
    International
  • Imraan Ho-Yee Speaker 2006
    Imraan Ho-Yee
    Architect
    After he began his career at Louis Karol, within seven years Imraan Ho-Yee became associate, and then partner.
    Cape Town, South Africa
  • Chris Gotz Speaker 2014
    Chris Gotz
    Creative Director
    Chris Gotz is the chief creative officer of Ogilvy & Mather South Africa.
    Cape Town, South Africa
  • Speaker 2013
    Jessica Hische
    Illustrator / Graphic Designer
    Jessica Hische is a letterer, illustrator, and self-described “avid internetter”.
    San Francisco, USA
  • 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
  • Speaker 2002
    Nadav Kander
    Photographer
    Nadav Kander creates unfailingly beautiful photographs with the formal precision of a master photographer.
    London, United Kingdom
  • Kaki King. Photo by Shervin Lainez Speaker 2017
    Kaki King
    Musician
    American guitarist and composer Kaki King is known for her genre-defying percussive and jazz-like melodies and energetic live shows.
    New York, USA
  • Speaker
    Carolien Niebling
    Designer
    “Food is fascinating because it is an ever evolving substance where development will never stop.”
    Netherlands
  • Speaker
    Lorenz Bäumer
    Jewellery Designer
    Paris, France
  • 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
  • Red & Yellow Speaker 2001
    Brian Searle-Tripp
    Educator
    Brian Searle-Tripp became a founding member of the Red & Yellow School of Logic & Magic which won him Financial Mail's Advertising Achiever Award in 1996.
    South Africa
  • Margaret Calvert. Image: Dan Wilton Speaker 2016
    Margaret Calvert
    Typographer
    Margaret Calvert is a graphic designer known for her design of road signs in the United Kingdom, as well as the typefaces Calvert and Transport.
    United Kingdom
  • Speaker 2005
    Paulo Feferbaum
    Fashion Designer
    Barcelona, Spain
  • Jackie Burger Speaker 2005
    Jackie Burger
    Writer / Editor
    Jackie Burger is the editor of ELLE South Africa and an official curator for Design Indaba Expo.
    Cape Town, South Africa
  • Joanne Thomas Speaker 2001
    Joanne Thomas
    Creative Director
    Respected South African designer and creative director, Joanne Thomas of The Jupiter Drawing Room, also judged the 2011 Let It Out! campaign.
    South Africa
  • Speaker 2002
    Lawrie Golding
    Brand Specialist
    Lawrie Golding is currently an executive consultant to the Vodacom Group, involved in the implementation of Strategy, Culture and Transformational Change.
    South Africa
  • Bogosi Sekhukhuni Speaker 2014
    Bogosi Sekhukhuni
    Writer / Performance Artist
    Bogosi Sekhukhuni is a Johannesburg-based writer and performance artist.
    Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Speaker 2008
    Anya van der Merwe Miszewski
    Architect
    Anya van der Merwe Miszewski is a director of Van Der Merwe Miszewski Architects Pty Ltd and a professor at the University of Cape Town School of Architecture.
    Cape Town, South Africa
  • Speaker 2008
    Abbott Miller
    Graphic Designer / Writer
    Abbott Miller is a graphic designer, writer and partner at Pentagram New York.
    New York, USA
  • Mikal Hallstrup Speaker 2014
    Mikal Hallstrup
    Design Consultant / Industrial Designer
    Mikal Hallstrup is the co-founder and chief visionary officer at Designit, one of the world’s largest design and innovation companies.
    Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Speaker 2003
    David Doubilet
    Photographer
    David Doubilet is honoured to have his underwater imagery considered to be among the best by editors, peers and colleagues the world over.
    Clayton, USA
  • Speaker 2002
    Lewis Blackwell
    Creative Director / Writer
    United Kingdom
  • Lucille Tenazas. Speaker 2002
    Lucille Tenazas
    Graphic Designer
    Lucille Tenazas is the Associate Dean and Henry Wolf Professor in the School of Art, Media and Technology (AMT) at Parsons School for Design.
    San Francisco, USA
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