5 Designers 5 Lunchtimes 5 Fridays

In a salute to the passion for design in Wellington, City Gallery Wellington is delighted to present a series of free lunchtime talks by leading New Zealand designers.

Join architect Ian Athfield, industrial designer Ross Stevens, typographer/designer Catherine Griffiths, type designer/director Len Cheeseman and co-director of the Weta companies Richard Taylor as they share insights, stories and personal reflections about their careers that are also passions.

Image: Ian Athfield's white tower house in Wellington.5 Designers 5 Lunchtimes 5 Fridays

In a salute to the passion for design in Wellington, City Gallery Wellington is delighted to present a series of free lunchtime talks by leading New Zealand designers.

Join architect Ian Athfield, industrial designer Ross Stevens, typographer/designer Catherine Griffiths, type designer/director Len Cheeseman and co-director of the Weta companies Richard Taylor as they share insights, stories and personal reflections about their careers that are also passions.

Image: Ian Athfield's white tower house in Wellington.An initiative of the Designers Institute of New Zealand with the support of City Gallery Wellington.

IAN ATHFIELD: 45 Years Of Learning To Be An Architect
Friday 30 September, 12:10pm
Join Ian Athfield, Director of Athfield Architects (Wellington and Christchurch), as he considers architecture in relation to the environment and the neighbourhood it is built within.

ROSS STEVENS: Bush Pigs, Shipping Containers And Design
Friday 7 October, 12:10pm
Join industrial designer and lecturer, Ross Stevens for a personal reflection about going feral and playing with architecture.

CATHERINE GRIFFITHS: Passion, Disappointment And Hope
Friday 14 October, 12:10pm
Join typographer and designer, Catherine Griffiths, as she takes a journey through the influences and explorations that have led to making typography in the New Zealand landscape.

LEN CHEESEMAN: A Bit Of This And A Bit Of That
Friday 21 October, 12:10pm
Join type designer and director, Len Cheeseman, for 'a bit of type, a bit of design, a bit of motion, a bit of a whinge, a bit of craft, a bit of advertising, a bit on a garden and probably a bit of a mess'.

RICHARD TAYLOR: From Small Beginnings
Friday 28 October, 12:10pm
Richard Taylor, design and effects supervisor and co-director of the Weta companies, takes a look at the innovation, enthusiasm, passion and drive that have been pre-requisites in the creative collaborators who have joined him on his journey over the last 17 years. Richard will discuss how talent comes very secondary to the qualities of good character and unabashed enthusiasm when putting together a team that can achieve the seemingly impossible.

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