KENT S NEDDON

Each year, the Outstanding Achievement Award is given to the individual “who has made a lasting contribution to the design profession and to design in general”.

bathroom products group Methven,

design architect for the Aurajet a daily chore into a luxurious water

worked with noted designer Peter Paykel, where he went on to lead the development of a global strategy for

and built a design team that developed team won Best Design Awards, a Good

believed that a designer’s role was to researched how people showered his team were also concerned about and their water saving shower the Australian market, where water shortages are more frequent than in

persistence to make sure the design

style and was not afraid to use curves embody character and personality into was phenomenal and he could change drawing to give clarity to the vision he

Colleagues, friends and acquaintances talented designer, and although he

else along on the journey, always a

Last year, Methven celebrated its to learn that the company was awarded Update awards in the UK, against such

in New Zealand, and this award acknowledges that he hadn’t reached his peak, and that he would have gone