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  • Sunny Dolat
    Art Director • Creative Director
    Fashion curator, cultural producer and creative director. >
  • Fumani Khumalo
    Fumani Khumalo
    Art Director
    This all-round creative has already worked with some of the country's biggest brands. >
  • Gordon Reid - Design Indaba Conference 2019
    Gordon Reid
    Art Director • Graphic Designer
    Graphic Designer, Art Director and the Founder of Middle Boop. >
  • Thabisa
    Thabisa Mjo
    Art Director
    A South African art director with a background in stage production design and interior design. >
  • Thabang Rampai
    Art Director
    This fine art graduate aims to promote South African stories through film and animation. >
  • Manic Molecule
    Manic Molecule
    Art Director
    Music videos, concert visuals, logos and illustrations that turn brands into visual spectacles. >
  • Carina Bonse
    Carina Bonse
    Art Director
    Carina "The Wizard" Bonse is an Art Direction and Design graduate from Red & Yellow, South Africa, who won Loerie Awards in her first, second and third years. >
  • "Light is a thing of beauty in that it overcomes darkness" - W&N Studio, London-based image makers, artists and filmmakers
    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. >
  • Using vintage tennis rackets, old coffee bags and other second-hand waste, Danielle Clough is breaking the mould of contemporary art.
    Danielle Clough
    Art Director • Artist
    Using vintage tennis rackets, old coffee bags and other second-hand waste, Danielle Clough is breaking the mould of contemporary art. >
  • Chanel Cartell and Stevo Dirnberger make up How Far From Home
    How Far From Home
    Art Director • Creative Director • Photographer
    Two creatives. One wanderlist. Zero reasons to stay at home. >
  • Larry Harvey.
    Larry Harvey
    Art Director
    Larry Harvey is the founding board member and chief philosophic officer of Burning Man, an annual festival of arts in the Nevada desert. >
  • PPC Imaginarium Awards
    PPC Imaginarium Awards
    Art Director
    PPC Imaginarium Awards is a modern art and design awards programme aimed at promoting and supporting emerging creative talent in South Africa. >
  • DJ Stout
    DJ Stout
    Graphic Designer • Art Director
    DJ Stout is a graphic designer and art director at Pentagram. >
  • Mokoena Kobeli.
    Mokoena Kobeli
    Art Director • Digital Designer
    Mokoena Kobeli is a digital designer and was part of the 2014 Emerging Creatives programme. >
  • Sergio del Puerto
    Art Director
    Sergio del Puerto is the founder of Serial Cut, a Madrid-based design studio that specialises in art direction, established in 1999. >
  • Christine Goudie
    Industrial Designer • Art Director
    Graphic designer turned industrial designer, Christine Goudie believes in involving the end user in the early stages of the design process. >
  • Manabu Mizuno
    Creative Director • Art Director
    Manabu Mizuno studied graphic design at Tama Art University. After graduating in 1996, he joined the advertising company Pablo Production. >
  • Michael Mack
    Writer • Editor • Art Director
    Michael Mack is a freelance art director, editor, curator and writer, specialising in the production of books on art, photography and architecture. >
  • Richard Baker
    Art Director
    Richard Baker has over 20 years' experience in publication design. Folio magazine named him one of the world's most influential designers in 1999. >
  • Fabio Ongarato
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  • Jaco Janse van Rensburg
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  • David Carson
    David Carson
    Art Director • Graphic Designer • Typographer
    David Carson is the most Googled graphic designer in history and has been named the art director of the era by Creative Review, London. >
  • Fernando Gutiérrez
    Art Director
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  • Nicholas Blechman
    Nicholas Blechman
    Art Director
    Nicholas Blechman is the art director of the “Week in Review” section of the New York Times. >
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