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  • Samkelo Boyde Xaba Pro-account
    Samkelo Boyde Xaba
    Fashion Designer
    Samkelo Boyde Xaba hails from Johannesburg.
    Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Pro-account
    Shelley Mokoena
    Fashion Designer
    Shelley Mokoena is a fashion designer who has taken her brand from a start-up to the runway.
    Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Pro-account
    Tshepo Sealetsa
    Interior Designer
    This young designer aims to take the interior design and architecture world by storm.
    Pretoria, South Africa
  • Pro-account
    Tiaan Beukes
    Furniture Designer / Jewellery Designer
    Tiaan Beukes is one designer that will not be put in a box when it comes to his designs.
    Stellenbosch, South Africa
  • Design Indaba Standard
    Design Indaba
    Publisher
    Design Indaba is a multifaceted platform committed to a better world through creativity.
    Cape Town, South Africa
  • Standard
    Nendo
    Design Studio
    Nendo, by Oki Sato, has been called one of the most talented Japanese design firms working today.
    Singapore, Tokyo
  • John Wizards Standard
    John Wizards
    Musician
    South African act John Wizards draws their sound from a variation of styles including reggae, pop, electro, and slow-jam R&B.
    Cape Town, South Africa
  • eLABS. Standard
    eLABS
    Industrial Designer
    eLABS are a small start-up incubator focussed on promoting inner city commuting.
    Cape Town, South Africa
  • Clementina van der Walt Ceramic Studio Standard
    Clementina van der Walt Ceramic Studio
    Ceramicist
    Clementina van der Walt Ceramic Studio produces both functional and decorative pieces.
    Cape Town, South Africa
  • James Cooper. Standard
    James Cooper
    Director
    James Cooper is an award-winning director, based in New York, Los Angeles, Sydney and Dublin.
    New York, USA
  • Standard 2012
    Renée Rossouw
    Architect / Ceramicist / Product Designer
    Renée Rossouw is a graphic-orientated, colour-fixated architect-designer obsessed with comics, colour, patterns and everyday objects.
    Cape Town, South Africa
  • Ceramics by Linda Khuzwayo. Standard
    Art in the Forest
    Design Studio
    Art in the Forest is a Cape Town-based ceramics centre managed and run by South African master potter Anthony Shapiro.
    Cape Town, South Africa
  • Holmes Brothers Standard
    Holmes Brothers
    Fashion Designer
    Durbanites Gary and Laurie Holmes, the Holmes Brothers, specialise in clothing design, manufacture and retail, with a few surfboards to keep it interesting.
    Durban, South Africa
  • Maker Library Network Standard
    Thingking
    Industrial Designer
    Ambassadors of the Maker Library Network, Thingking are an award-winning design company based in Woodstock, Cape Town.
    Cape Town, South Africa
  • Dear Ribane Speaker 2017
    Dear Ribane
    Performance Artist
    "We are because each other." Introducing the Dear Ribane production company.
    Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Daniel Ting Chong Standard
    Daniel Ting Chong
    Illustrator
    Daniel Ting Chong is an illustrator, designer, artist and based in Cape Town, South Africa. He was part of Design Indaba's Emerging Creatives programme in 2008.
    Cape Town, South Africa
  • Standard
    Spoek Mathambo
    Musician
    Spoek Mathambo is a South African musician at the vanguard of a new wave of African artists with a unique and hard-hitting take on Afro-futurism.
    Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Halsted - The Ardmore Collection Standard
    Halsted - The Ardmore Collection
    Design Studio
    Halsted - The Ardmore Collection's iconic artistic signature finds expression in functional tableware, textiles and more.
    Durban, South Africa
  • Nongoma Ndlovu Standard
    Nongoma
    Singer-Songwriter
    Nongoma is a multi-genre singer-songwriter from Johannesburg, South Africa.
    Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Speaker 2017
    Craig Dykers
    Architect
    Co-founder of Snøhetta, architect Craig Dykers is interested in design as a promoter of social and physical well-being.
    New York, USA
  • Woza Moya. Standard
    Hillcrest AIDS Centre Woza Moya
    Social Entrepreneur
    Woza Moya is the income generation project of the Hillcrest AIDS Centre Trust.
    Durban, South Africa
  • Jepchumba Standard
    Jepchumba
    Digital Artist
    Digital artist and founder of African Digital Art, Jepchumba is the curator for the Digital and Communications sectors at Design Indaba Expo 2015.
    Cape Town, South Africa
  • Anthony Shapiro Standard
    Anthony Shapiro
    Ceramicist
    Ceramicist and executive director of Art in the Forest, Anthony Shapiro is the curator of the Handmade sector for Design Indaba Expo 2015.
    Cape Town, South Africa
  • BLK JKS Soundsystem Standard
    BLK JKS Soundsystem
    Musician
    Hailing from Johannesburg, BLK JKS Soundsystem was one of the first groups to set the genre-bending trend for music in South Africa
    Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Samkelo Boyde Xaba Pro-account
    Samkelo Boyde Xaba
    Fashion Designer
    Samkelo Boyde Xaba hails from Johannesburg.
    Johannesburg, South Africa
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