Design Indaba announces speakers, early bookings close

Leading on the product design front, Tord Boontje craft-meets-industrial creations are sure to dazzle, while the Bouroullec Brothers' unique materials and unusual forms will beg the definition.

Leading New York-based advertising agency Anomaly are renowned for designing IP not DPSes for their clients, which include YouTube cosmetics sensation Lauren Luke and maverick chef Eric Ripert. Also designing to add value rather than stuff, social housing starchitect Alejandro Aravena is renowned for his remarkable solutions to housing the urban poor.

On the graphic design and illustration front, Stefan Bucher will be showing just how his personal doodles on The Daily Monster have earned him a cult movement. Revitalising and adding a twist to old technologies, Troika show that conceptual is never obsolete.

The discounted Early Bird bookings close today Friday 11 December 2009, with one third of the conference already sold.

The rest of the star-studded speaker line-up will be announced weekly from January 2010, with the final programme announced in February.

Expo

Following the conference, the Design Indaba Expo will run from 26-28 February 2010 at the CTICC. Said to be the fastest growing show in the country, the 2009 expo hosted some 29 000 visitors, 260 exhibitors and 350 buyers.

Celebrating the innate creativity in every South African with its 2010 Let It Out campaign, it is inviting every South African from every lifestyle and every age to express their creativity; the campaign will culminate in 11 top South African creatives being appointed as the “national creative team.”