Amanda Breytenbach
Amanda is the Vice Dean of the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture (FADA) at the University of Johannesburg. She is currently the President of the Design Education Forum of Southern Africa (DEFSA) of which she has been an Executive Committee member for 10 years. Ms Breytenbach has also actively taken part in the development and promotion of the Interior Design discipline over the past 15 years. She is a member of the Education Committee that forms part of the South African Institute of the Interior Design Professions (IID).

Andro Nizetich
Andro Nizetich previously managed the Department of Jewellery & Ceramic Design at the University of Johannesburg and currently lecturers in the Department of Industrial Design. His qualifications include a BTech: Industrial Design and a Masters: Business Administration. He has substantial experience across design disciplines and more recently in design education.

Niz, as he is preferably known, has a strong strategic ability and easily traverses the boundaries between disciplines to provide innovative, yet pragmatic solutions in any of his endeavours.

Anneke Laurie
Anneke holds an MTech degree cum Laude in photography from the Vaal University of Technology where she is currently a lecturer in photography and a member of the Bodutu Art Gallery curatorial committee. She believes that teaching is as much a journey of discovery together with one’s students as it is imparting knowledge and skills. Her research is focussed on visual communication and visual literacy which she integrates with photographic and teaching practice. She has exhibited fine art and documentary photography nationally in both group and solo exhibitions.

Bruce Cadle
Bruce is lecturer in Graphic Design and HoD of Applied Design at NMMU. He has been an educator since mirror balls were invented, believes in the indomitable human spirit and that designers will (should) save the world. He is interested in the exciting possibilities that occur when design and art disciplines converge and new possibilities for synergy emerge. Oh, and fabulous food and liquor is what helps him stay focused and real.

Darren Taljaard
Lecturer - Design, Advertising & Copywriting. Schoolof language, Media & Culture - NMMU. Having practised as a designer within the advertising, publications and packaging industries for 14 years in Port Elizabeth Darren was appointed as Associate lecturer in July 2007.

He has since been promoted to Lecturer and am currently engaged in research within the areas of Design Auteurship, Interdisciplinary Design Practice and Ethical Influences on Designers.

Helen Bührs
Helen is currently employed as the Academic Manager of the Inscape Design College a leading Tertiary Design Institution. She has extensive knowledge and experience in Academic strategic planning, Development of curricula, Implementation and Co-ordination of all relevant courses, Compilation of all documentation for accreditation as well as lecturing all levels of Interior Design, Interior Decorating and Architectural Draughting students.

Herman Botes
Herman is currently employed at the TUT as Academic Section Head in the Department of Visual Communication, Faculty of the Arts. He is qualified as Graphic Designer at Technikon Pretoria. He started his career in design at the then FRD, now NRF.

He subsequently received two national awards for Annual Report Design in local government and tertiary education.

Inge Economou
Inge Economou is a lecturer in visual communication at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) in Port Elizabeth. Her masters’ dissertation focused on the historical-theoretical background to contemporary graphic design practices. In 2003 she published an article The Cultural Context for Contemporary Graphic Design in the South African Journal of Art History together with two other articles in a refereed NMMU journal Iliso.

Her current research, with her colleague Nina Joubert, focuses on recognising and developing social and environmental awareness within a visual communications programme.

Kurt Campbell
Kurt lectures at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town in the fields of New Media, Typography and Art and Design Theory. He is a multi-disciplinarian and his work is influenced by Postcolonial Theory and Subaltern Studies.

Jakob Doman
"My life as an academic runs parallel with my commitment and enthusiasm towards photography as expressive medium. It is especially important to me that I communicate the role photography plays in contemporary culture and that my students understand that the practises of commerce and individual expression are not oppositional.

My own experience is grounded in a combination of experience in the commercial advertising and fine art arenas for which I have been honored with D&AD and Clio-Awards and shortlisted for the Daimler-Chrysler Prize. As an researcher, I focus my interests on the diverse fields of aesthetics, digital image signal processing and practise-based arts research methodologies. I employ a multi-faceted and holistic educational approach that, hopefully, offers intellectual stimulation and creative awareness. "

Karen von Veh
Karen is a senior lecturer at the University of Johannesburg in the faculty of Art, Design and Architecture teaching History and Theory of Art and Design in the Fine Art, Industrial Design and Interior Design departments. She is currently the immediate past chairperson on the National Council of SAVAH (South African Visual Arts Historians). Her research interests include contemporary South African art, gender studies and religious iconography.

Landi Raubenheimer
Landi is a researcher, artist and lecturer currently employed at the Faculty of Art Design and Architecture at the University of Johannesburg. Her work there includes development of a curriculum for a new course entitled Contextual Studies. Her current research focuses on digital media theory, and the implications of interactive media in immersive viewer experiences. She is also interested in landscape and aesthetic categories such as the sublime.

Lisa Slegtenhorst
Lecturer of Fashion Design at the Central University of technology. She was awarded the higher diploma in Fashion Cum Laude in 2008, and received the best student award.

From 2005 until 2007 Lisa worked in the fashion Industry as a Merchandiser. Currently Miss Slegtenhorst is studying towards a Diploma in Higher Education, and plans to continue with her master’s degree in Fashion in 2010.

Mary Duker:
Director School of Music, Art and Design, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth. Her work in progress is situated in a context of global, national and institutional imperatives to improve teaching and learning.

Her interests lie in facilitating access to the visual arts disciplines and in the design of curricula that scaffold the teaching and learning of literacies for diverse, vulnerable, but aspirational groups of students.

Mornay Schoeman
Mornay is the Campus Principal for Inscape Design College in Cape Town.

Mornay says “From the very first time I showed a fellow student how perspective worked, and they understood me, I felt that thrill of contributing to the knowledge base of another individual. This feeling is what drives the passion in me for what I do. Having been in design education for the past 17 years this passion has taken me in many directions, on many discoveries”.

Mugendi M'Rithaa
Mugendi is a senior lecturer at the Department of Industrial Design at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT), Cape Town. He has previously lectured in Kenya and Botswana. He was educated in Kenya, the USA, India, and South Africa.

Mugendi is passionate about various expressions of socially responsible design, including Design-by-All / Participatory Design; Design-for-All / Universal Design; Design-for-Development; and Design-for-Sustainability.

Nadia Viljoen
Nadia is a Candidate Researcher for the Logistics and Quantitative Methods team at the CSIR and has been working at the CSIR since January 2009. She is currently involved in research related topics in humanitarian logistics and operations research.

Nadia gained working experience through internships completed as part of her undergraduate degree. At Fourier Approach (Pty) Ltd. she obtained experience in business process re-engineering and the development and implementation of performance management frameworks. At MagnaFS (Pty) Ltd. she was part of a team that prepared the NaTIS system for an internal audit. Her final year project at the University of Pretoria exposed her to humanitarian logistics and operations research.

Nina Joubert
Nina Joubert is an associate lecturer in Visual Communications: Photography at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University. She is an female researcher from a pre-merger Technikon background and as such, shifting her focus from professional design outputs and industry collaborations to more research-driven activities and are in the process of developing research knowledge and skills.

Nina holds a B-Tech in Astronomical photography and is currently studying
towards her M-Tech.

Olutumise Adesola Ojo
Olutunmise is a Graphic Design Lecturer. He has a Master’s Degree in Graphic Design at the Central University of Technology, Free State. He has been in Graphic design industry for more than 20 years.

He has worked as a Senior Visualizer, Freelance designer, Design consultant as well as a Creative Manager for different Advertising agencies, Newspaper and Design companies in Nigeria and Lesotho.

Patrick Tsekelo Moremoholo
Patrick works and teaches at the Graphic Design Programme, Central University of Technology, Free State where he has just completed his Master’s Degree in Graphic Design. His research focused on the values of various graphic techniques such as animation in an instructional environment. Patrick has written and presented papers at conferences and in refereed journals in the areas of animation in instructional environment.

Piers Carey
Currently Head of the Department of Visual Communication Design at the Durban University of Technology with twenty years’ lecturing experience.

Pier's research interests include African graphic systems, typography, and the relationship between visual communication and ecology.

Ria van Zyl
Ria (MA (ID) University of Pretoria) is a part-time lecturer and researcher at the University of Pretoria.

Ria's interests are: interdisciplinary collaboration, designer-client relationship, strategic design and brand management, design theory and research and the development of the design discipline. She is also the owner of a small communication design consultancy in Pretoria.

Rowan Gatfield
Rowan is a lecturer in Graphic Design at the Department of Visual Communication Design at the Durban University of Technology, and Studio Manager for the “Workspace” studio project in collaboration with the University of East London, UK.

His research interests include ideation processes, subcultures and the environment.

Theresa Hardman
Theresa is an architect and artist who has been teaching design in the Department of Architecture at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University for the last 19 years.

In addition to her professional experience, she has extensive experience as an external examiner and visiting lecturer and is currently engaged in research toward a Doctorate in Philosophy which investigates the role that worldview can play in the development of creative potential.

Thinus Mathee
Thinus Mathee has been teaching photography at the Vaal University of Technology for the past 20 years. His current interest in photography is capturing the wider space in the panoramic format. His photography captures moments of personal visual experiences that are just an immediate and considered a response to what he is presented with.

His works have been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions and published nationally and internationally.