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  • 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
  • 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
  • Sir Terence Conran Speaker 2003
    Sir Terence Conran
    Furniture Designer / Restaurateur / Retailer
    Sir Terence Conran is one of the world’s best-known designers, restauranteurs and retailers.
    London, United Kingdom
  • Speaker 2014
    Issa Diabaté
    Architect
    Issa Diabaté is the managing director of Koffi & Diabaté Architects and co-founder of the Koffi & Diabaté Group based in the Ivory Coast.
    Abidjan, Ivory Coast
  • Don Albert Speaker 2006
    Don Albert
    Architect
    Albert conducted research in Malaysia, South Africa & the US. The result: a master-planned counterproposal for Malaysia's premier techno-city, Cyberjaya.
    Cape Town, South Africa
  • Speaker 2011
    Dana Arnett
    Graphic Designer
    Dana Arnett has created brand marketing solutions for the likes of Harley-Davidson, IBM, General Electric, Coca-Cola, Thomas Reuters and Nike.
    Chicago, USA
  • 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 2002
    Erik Spiekermann
    Writer / Typographer / Information Designer
    Germany
  • Geraldine Fenn Speaker 2005
    Geraldine Fenn
    Jewellery Designer
    Geraldine Fenn is a South African jewellery designer.
    Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Christien Meindertsma Speaker 2010
    Christien Meindertsma
    Product Designer
    Christien Meindertsma explores products and raw materials in unusual ways.
    Rotterdam, Netherlands
  • Mokena Makeka Speaker 2010
    Mokena Makeka
    Architect
    Mokena Makeka is principal and founder of Makeka Design Lab.
    Cape Town, South Africa
  • Speaker 2013
    Alexander Chen
    Interaction Designer
    Alexander Chen makes musical and interactive works, collaborating with the likes of Google and The Barbarian Group.
    New York, USA
  • Speaker 2018
    Alejandro Aravena
    Architect
    Alejandro Aravena is the principal of Alejandro Aravena Architects and the executive director of Elemental, a do-tank focusing on projects of social impact.
    Santiago, Chile
  • Speaker 2011
    Hugh Masekela
    Musician
    Born in 1939, South African trumpeter, bandleader, composer and lyricist, Hugh Masekela, is loved by jazz, bebop, funk and Afrobeat fans the world over.
    Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Speaker 2010
    Handspring Puppet Company
    Puppeteer
    The Handspring Puppet Company was founded in 1981 by Basil Jones and Adrian Kohler.
    Cape Town, South Africa
  • Sou Fujimoto. Photo: David Vintiner Speaker 2016
    Sou Fujimoto
    Architect
    Philosophical architect Sou Fujimoto blurs the lines between the public and the private in his thought-provoking work.
    Tokyo, Japan
  • Speaker 2013
    Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg
    Artist / Speculative Designer / Writer
    Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg is an artist, designer and writer investigating futures for design.
    London, United Kingdom
  • Speaker 2005
    Patrick Burgoyne
    Writer / Editor
    Patrick Burgoyne is editor of Creative Review magazine.
    London, United Kingdom
  • Safia Qureshi Speaker 2016
    Safia Qureshi
    Architect / Entrepreneur
    Safia Qureshi is an award-winning architect, social designer, entrepreneur and one half of Studio [D] Tale.
    London, United Kingdom
  • "Light is a thing of beauty in that it overcomes darkness" - W&N Studio, London-based image makers, artists and filmmakers Speaker 2016
    Warren du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones
    Art Director / Filmmaker / Photographer
    "Light is a thing of beauty in that it overcomes darkness" - W&N Studio, London-based image makers, artists and filmmakers.
    London, United Kingdom
  • Van Eijk & Van der Lubbe Speaker 2016
    Van Eijk & Van der Lubbe
    Design Studio
    With a laser-sharp focus on the future, Dutch designers Miriam van der Lubbe and Niels van Eijk are on the pulse of concept design.
    Netherlands
  • Speaker 2013
    Pieter-Jan Pieters
    Pieter-Jan Pieters is a recent Design Academy Eindhoven graduate interested in innovation, design, technology, engineering and fun.
    Eindhoven, Netherlands
  • Renny Ramakers Speaker 2011
    Renny Ramakers
    Creative Director
    Co-founder and director of Droog, Renny Ramakers curates exhibitions, is a judging panelist on various boards, and leads lectures and workshops worldwide.
    Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • 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
  • 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
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