Mark Pennington

Design Director, FORMWAY FURNITURE

Mark Pennington has had a long and illustrious career in industrial design in New Zealand and abroad, winning many top awards for his outstanding design work as well as for consultancy in many of the leading design companies in the United Kingdom, Holland and the United States.

A former Fulbright scholarship, he has been involved in a design capacity for a number of government organisations, and at the Designers Institute of New Zealand. He was also co-head of design in a consultancy capacity for exhibition design at Te Papa.

For the last twelve years Mark has been design director at Formway Furniture which has won numerous international prestigious design awards including Neocon in the United States and the Prince Philip Industrial Design Award. At the same time Mark continues to be an adviser for many leading organisations in New Zealand and abroad.