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Design is a powerful tool for adding economic and social value to business, says Bruce Nussbaum. >

Manabu Mizuno likes to refer to himself as a design samurai, in a very positive sense. >

Promoting social entrepreneurship and applying design innovation to impact the world is what creativity is about for the William Drenttel (1953-2013). >

Conundrums, dreams and fluttering butterflies. Harry Pearce talks about his graphic design process. >

South African entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth talks about the Ubuntu Project, a free, open-source Linux-based operating system. >

African architecture should stop copying the West, engage the real needs of the people and regard the environment, says Diébédo Francis Kéré. >

Street art is about activism and intervention and should be embraced and celebrated, says Wooster Collective and Faith47. >

The French designer gets candid about their most popular pieces and reveals which designs bombed. >

Architect Martin Kruger talks about urban architectural projects in and around Cape Town. >

Design is intricately linked to making, creativity and the future says Tord Boontje. >

Handspring Puppet Company believe that puppeteers are engineers of emotions. >

Taku Satoh talks about retaining packaging design elements that characterise a product. >

Henning Rasmuss talks about the SharpCity project that celebrates and promotes South African architecture. >

Lara Bohinc talks about classicism in relation to the ongoing quest for all things new and contemporary. >

Ross Chowles talks about how to start and run your own advertising agency. >

Christophe Egret talks about creating communities and generosity in architecture. >

From the very small to the very large. Paul Priestman talks about product design, multiples and the importance of thinking ahead. >

Our creative cups are constantly being filled, we just need to find ways to tip them over, says Paul Sahre. >

Fashion is an intimate social and political expression of who we are as a people. Adam Levin talks about this notion. >

Tom Dixon talks about his work, from starting as a welder to designing the world’s most expensive vibrator. >

At the design intersection of culture and technology some very interesting things are possible, as Doshi Levien have discovered. >

In Japan good design is regarded as a valuable resource. Toshiyuki Kita talks about this notion. >

Plastic waste + hands + geometry = beautiful objects + employment, a system that Heath Nash has refined using other people's rubbish. >

Performance and space can go a long way towards expressing thoughts and ideas, said Reggie Watts at the Design Indaba Conference 2007. >

Graphic design should be something that’s easy to understand, almost instinctive, Hideki Inaba believes. >