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Design Indaba: Sissel Tolaas

Visit our special report here Dubbing herself a “professional in-betweener”, scent expert Sissel Tolaas has been working at the intersection of smell and language since 1990. With smell as her medium, Tolaas’s work explores how different smells can be described, … Continue reading

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Design Indaba: Hellicar & Lewis

Visit our special report here Formed in 2008, Hellicar & Lewis is the partnership between Pete Hellicar and Joel Gethin Lewis. Their work uses art, technology and design to create groundbreaking experiences that take people into the moment to impart … Continue reading

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Design Indaba: Chris Milk

Visit our special report here Chris Milk is an artist known best for his music video work. Most recently he has focussed on advancing technology-generated emotional resonance through innovative interactive video projects like the award-winning “The Johnny Cash Project” and … Continue reading

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Design Indaba: René Redzepi

Visit our special report here As founder and head chef of Noma restaurant in Copenhagen, René Redzepi has reinvented the Nordic kitchen. His contribution to gastronomy has positioned him as one of the most influential and most quoted people working … Continue reading

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Design Indaba: Robert Wong

Creative director of Google Creative Labs, Robert Wong was born Chinese, grew up Dutch, was Canadian, and is now American. While practicing accounting in Toronto, he woke up one day, flew to New York, and became a graphic designer instead.

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Design Indaba: Jens Martin Skibsted

Jens Martin Skibsted, founding partner of Skibsted Ideation, KiBiSi and Biomega, is one of most inspiring and creative Danish designers and design thinkers, whose work has been accredited worldwide.

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Design Indaba: Ben Fry

Ben Fry is principal of Fathom, a design and software consultancy located in Boston. He received his doctoral degree at the MIT Media Laboratory, where his research focused on combining computer science, statistics, graphic design and data visualization as a … Continue reading

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Design Indaba: Oded Ezer

Graphic designer, type designer, design educator, a pioneer in the field of 3D Hebrew lettering and a typographic experimentalist who invented the term Biotypography… Oded Ezer’s projects, posters and graphic works are showcased and published worldwide.

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Design Indaba: Mark Shuttleworth

This South Africa-born entrepreneur is very passionate about the triple thrusts of cadence, design and quality in open source. He believes that free software can become the de facto way the world builds and experiences all software.

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Design Indaba: Maarten Baas

Maarten Baas created the famous Smoke series, in which he charred furniture and treated the torched skeletons with a coating that turned them into useable pieces. As an iconic collection of modern design, “Smoke” is now in several permanent museum … Continue reading

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