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Lars Wallentin – A Design Icon!

Tuesday 25 June 2013, 4:33PM

By DPP

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Voted one of the *Top 5 Thought Leader’s in 2012 by easyfairs innovations, Lars Wallentin is coming to New Zealand. Born in Sweden and educated at the Graphic Institute in Stockholm. Lars Wallentin moved to Switzerland to the Nestlé headquarters where he was responsible for the development of creative design solutions for the strategic brands such as Nestlé, Nescafé, Maggi, Buitoni, Nesquik or Kit Kat. Lars Wallentin is a true European, speaking several of its languages, is an avid Jazz-fan, former table tennis champion and an amateur photographer.
He now spends his life writing about design and packaging and consulting various consumer goods companies. He is furthermore an appreciated speaker on packaging design and sits in several design juries.
As part of Design Print Partner’s 25th Anniversary celebration’s and in conjunction with the NZFGC a strictly limited seminar is being held at Villa Maria 25th July 10am to 1pm $265 per ticket.


*packaging pan-european survey 2012
Top 5 Roland ten Klooster, Lars G Wallentin, Steve Jobs, Dick Searle & Philippe Stark