My name is Will Duncan and I am a first year design student living in Wellington, after recently vacating my home in Christchurch. As well as being an aspiring industrial designer I’m also a passionate musician. It is through music and my high school’s “Graphics” course that I found my roots in design. I loved spending hours creating gig posters and album artwork for the various bands I was in, alongside maintaining a healthy interest in Architecture and Industrial design at school. At the most fundamental level I have always wanted to create and although I am not the greatest freehand artist, design has presented me with the methods in order to not simply “draw” art but construct art.  Many different forms of design, whether it is print, architecture or industrial have always intrigued and interested me. One particular piece of design that has made a lasting impression on me was the inside of the Christchurch Cathedral. The Cathedral was built to replicate the designs of the English Gothic architect George Gilbert Scott. Scott would evoke feelings of awe and insignificance with the massive scale of the structures he designed. I had since then been intrigued by relationship between constructed places, spaces, objects and the feelings they inspire in a person. Scott and other Gothic/Renaissance cathedral architects knew of this relationship, something I aspire to replicate in my designs. I am hoping completing the Bachelor of design innovation will give me the chance to also further investigate this phenomenon and I keenly await the day when I can call myself a professional designer.