How To Be Brilliant is set to go gothic next week for a special Halloween-inspired talk by Jono Kenyon (above) and Martha Godfrey, director and lighting designer respectively at BEAM Lighting Design.
Jono and Martha will discuss the ‘The World of Tim Burton’ exhibition on Tuesday 28 October at sponsor Lutron’s Experience Centre in London.
Martha was the lead designer for the exhibition, which ran until May at the London’s Design Museum and followed the artist and director’s creative output from his childhood through to the present day, encompassing drawings, paintings, photographs, sketchbooks, moving-image works, sculptural installations, his sets and costume designs.
Jono and Martha said: “We are both really looking forward to sharing some of our ideas and processes with the HTBB audience. We love being part of the storytelling that comes with exhibition lighting design and working with really inspirational curators and collectors.”
Doors will open from 6pm, and the Lutron Experience Centre is at 125 Finsbury Pavement in London, for which the nearest tube is Moorgate.
Lutron’s sponsorship enables How To Be Brilliant to remain free to entry, and the programme is designed to be a safe, supportive and inspiring environment to bring together lighters of all levels, but especially those new to the industry, simply to hear great talks and presentations about lighting.
How To Be Brilliant will conclude for 2025 at LiGHT25 next month, which will itself be returning to the Business Design Centre in Islington from 19-20 November.
In what is quite a coup for the ILP, the team from Foster + Partners will be speaking on the second day (20 November) on the topic of ‘lighting in sync: lighting design in a multidisciplinary context’.
The talk will examine the role of lighting designers within an integrated design practice (as is the case at Foster + Partners). The presentation will emphasise the need for the design process in this context to be inherently collaborative.
ILP members can now book direct through their ‘MyILP’ portal on the new ILP website, at theilp.org.uk/. However the event is also open to non-members and more details can be found at https://theilp.org.uk/events/ems-events-calendar/how-to-be-brilliant-halloween-week-special.html
Image: Jono Kenyon
