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  • Speaker 2007
    Andy Stevens
    Studying at Leeds and the Royal College of Art, London, Andy Stevens is one of the founding members of Graphic Thought Facility.
    International
  • Speaker 2002
    Graham Leigh
    Creative Director
    Graham Leigh is director and retail branding specialist for the HKLM Group in South Africa. Leigh uses his architectural background to create cohesive spaces.
    Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Noel Cottrell Speaker 2001
    Noel Cottrell
    Creative Director
    Chief Creative Officer at Fitzgerald & Co.
    South Africa
  • Jenny Ehlers at Design Indaba Conference 2007. Speaker 2007
    Jenny Ehlers
    Creative Director
    Jenny Ehlers is creative director and equity partner of King James RSVP, the design and promotions arm of the King James Group.
    Cape Town, South Africa
  • Speaker 2002
    Michael Stallenberg
    Graphic Designer
    Michael Stallenberg is a South African art director. Working for Interactive Africa, he started Design Indaba Magazine in 2001.
    Cape Town, South Africa
  • Shaun Leane Speaker 2006
    Shaun Leane
    Jewellery Designer
    Shaun Leane has worked in the jewellery industry, designing and making for the past 20 years, both under his own Shaun Leane Ltd and otherwise.
    London, United Kingdom
  • Speaker 2002
    Michael Thibodeau
    Creative Director / Brand Specialist
    Michael Thibodeau is one of the world's foremost brand identity designers. His extensive experience includes the creation of the MSN butterfly for Microsoft.
    New York, USA
  • Dale Tomlinson Speaker 1999
    Dale Tomlinson
    Brand Specialist
    Dale Tomlinson is currently Founder and CEO of The Hardy Boys.
    Durban, South Africa
  • Karen Welman Speaker 2006
    Karen Welman
    Graphic Designer / Inventor
    Entrepreneur, designer and inventor Karen Welman is passionate about the power of ideas, and uses design as a means to answer genuine human needs and desires.
    London, United Kingdom
  • Speaker
    Kacper Pietrzykowski
    Product Designer
    Kacper is a graduate of the Design and Engineering Master's programme at Politecnico di Milano (Italy).
    Italy
  • Peter Vundla Speaker 1997
    Peter Vundla
    Advertising Executive
    Peter Vundla is the founder of Herdbuoys, South Africa’s first wholly black-owned advertising agency.
    South Africa
  • Speaker 2001
    Daniel Gruenenwald
    Daniel Gruenenwald is everything. Daniel Gruenenwald is God. Daniel Gruenenwald is Fishfinger Cape Town.
    South Africa
  • Speaker 2008
    Gerry Human
    Creative Director
    Although Gerry Human is a 20-year veteran of the advertising industry, he claims to have the mind of a 12-year-old and the body of... yes, well.
    Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Shin Matsunaga Speaker 2006
    Shin Matsunaga
    Graphic Designer
    Though his work centres on graphic design, his creative activities also cover a range of other fields, such as drawings and monuments.
    Tokyo, Japan
  • Walther Herbst Speaker 1999
    Walther Herbst
    Industrial Designer / Product Designer
    Walther Herbst is the chairman of Herbst Lazar Bell Inc.
    Chicago, USA
  • Kevin Swanepoel Speaker 1997
    Kevin Swanepoel
    Advertising Executive
    Kevin Swanepoel is President of The One Club – the world's foremost non-profit organisation for the recognition and promotion of excellence in advertising.
    New York, USA
  • Speaker 2005
    Kerryn du Preez
    Writer / Editor
    Cape Town, South Africa
  • Speaker 2001
    Aurobind Patel
    Typographer
    Multi-talented typographer Aurobind Patel left Harvard MBA to go into graphics, creating the ever game-changing Times Millennium typeface in November 1991.
    USA
  • Sharon Worrall Speaker 1995
    Sharon Worrall
    Author
    Meet Sharon Worrall: Wife, Mother, Author, Alchoholic.
    South Africa
  • Speaker
    Lawrence Zeegen
    Lawrence Zeegen is the Dean of Design at London College of Communication, University of the Arts London.
    London, United Kingdom
  • Kinya Tagawa Speaker
    Kinya Tagawa
    Design engineer
    Kinya Tagawa is Japanese award-winning design engineer.
    Tokyo, Japan
  • Terry Jones Speaker 1999
    Terry Jones
    Photographer / Graphic Designer
    Terry Jones is the founder, editor-in-chief, creative director and publisher of i-D magazine.
    London, United Kingdom
  • Joshua Davis Speaker 2002
    Joshua Davis
    Artist / Developer / Graphic Designer
    Joshua Davis is a New York-based artist, designer, and technologist producing both public and private work for companies, collectors, and institutions.
    New York, USA
  • Speaker 1997
    Sue Oliver
    Alongside Theart Korsten, Sue Oliver (Ogilvy & Mather) spoke on MNet's broadcasting media in African Operation at the Design Indaba Conference in 1997.
    International
  • Speaker 2007
    Andy Stevens
    Studying at Leeds and the Royal College of Art, London, Andy Stevens is one of the founding members of Graphic Thought Facility.
    International
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