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Garth Walker is the Founder and CEO of Durban based Mister Walker and Orange Juice Design, one of South Africa’s best-known graphic design studios. Orange Juice Design had previously partnered with Ogilvy and was one of the very few studios with an international reputation. Mister Walker designs for many of South Africa’s best known corporate and consumer brands.

Walker's other passion is design education and hosts student and professional workshops on five continents. More recently he has been invited as a curator on major museum exhibitions, in addition to personally exhibiting his work at a number of international design festivals in some 14 countries. He has been widely recognised with over 100 design awards, published in over 80 magazines and books.

He is represented in the collections of Museum of Modern Art, Biblioteque Nationale de France, Victoria & Albert Museum and The Smithsonian. Walker is a member of Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI), British Design & Art Direction (D&AD) and is a founding trustee of the South African Graphic Design Council (THINK).