Arnold Chan

Although trained as an architect at the Architectural Association in London, Hong Kong-born Arnold Chan is one of the world’s leading lighting design professionals. In 1984, he established Isometrix, a lighting company with offices in London and Hong Kong.

Inspired by Le Corbusier’s dictum about “the correct and masterly play of masses brought together in light”, Arnold Chan has devoted his career to redefining light as a creative tool that enhances people’s sense of spatial flow within buildings’ interiors. In doing so, he has actively adopted advanced lighting technologies that push the visual boundary of built environments. His many career highlights to date include creating a lighting installation for the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, US, designed by world-renowned architect, Herzog de Mueron’s. More recently, he has participated in Mariko Mori’s exhibition, Rebirth, at the Royal Academy of Arts. Other renowned artists Arnold Chan has worked with over the years include such household names as Anish Kapoor, Damien Hirst, James Turrell, and architects Norman Foster and Zaha Hadid.

Nicolas Cheng

Nicolas Cheng’s multi-disciplinary educational background has qualified him as an art diplomat bridging different areas of design. His academic journey spans from interior design and environment architecture in Britain to man and activity/living-industrial design in the Netherlands. He is one of the very few artists who are articulate in integrating different visual languages across different media. He is always interested in exploring with crossing boundaries and merging different disciplines to create a whole new art form.  Repertoire of his designs includes contemporary art jewelry, interior architecture and product design.

He graduated from the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2006 and he received his Master degree in Jewelry and Corpus at Konstfack University, Stockholm in 2010. In 2007, he was artist in residence at FABRICA, the Communication Research Center of Benetton Group in Treviso, Italy. Over the years, Cheng’s series of work were extensively exhibited in various occasions and international venues including Dutch Design Week, London Design Festival and Design Miami/Basel.

Wendy W Fok

With an international vocational and educational background, Wendy W Fok has become a promising name in the international arena. From interior design to installation works and urban regeneration, Wendy continues to challenge the dynamic significance in structuring and mapping the ideals of art, architecture and urbanism through sustainable planning, material research and alternative methods of fabrication with progressive designs within the built environment. Ultimately, she hopes to eventually establish a practice based in Hong Kong and other international cities abroad.

Fok received her Master degree in Architecture and Certification of Urban Policy/Regional Planning at Princeton University’s School of Architecture after a whirlwind tour of some of the top schools in the world. She has also participated in several international architectural projects, exhibitions and competitions— including the London Design Festival TENT (2012) and Hong Kong and Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale (2011/12).

Dylan Kwok

Dylan Kwok received his Master degree in Spatial Design at the University of Art and Design in Helsinki, Finland, and held a teaching position in Aalto University’s School of Design, Finland. Over the past few decades, he had many opportunities to be exposed to different cultural settings in ideologically contrasting societies while visiting East Asia, North America and the Scandinavia, thus developed a strong interest in the relationship between humanistic design and urban environment. He is now the co-owner of PIORA project, which Initially began by a Korean furniture designer Hyejin Ahn who was working on waxed paper art lamps in 2006. They both later decided to work together in 2010 and refined the project by introducing non-profit workshops, exhibitions and plans for artistic installation for the series.

After living abroad for 15 years, he’s returned to Hong Kong for good and is now working with Design Institute for Social Innovation of School of Design at HK Polytechnic University.

Michael Leung

Michael Leung’s strong sense of conceptual design is well represented by his project "HK Honey". Michael is the founder and creative director of HK Honey, an organization of local beekeepers, artists and designers that aim to communicate the value of harvesting local honey, design products and services relating to urban beekeeping. He also co-founded a community-focused art and design platform called Shanghai Street Studios in Yau Ma Tei. His interest in agriculture started when he was living in London. He then slowly developed his interest in food ethics and food origin after spending many weekends visiting food markets and cooking Sunday roasts.

As Hong Kong's first urban beekeeper, Michael proudly established HK Honey in July 2010. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Product and Furniture Design at Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication in England . Now serving as a guest tutor at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Michael has become actively involved in social and cultural projects.

William Lim

The Founder and Managing Director of the CL3 architectural and interior firm, William Lim holds a variety of academic posts both in Hong Kong and abroad. He also serves as a member of numerous authoritative design and architectural bodies. In addition to the Architects Registration Board, they include the Association of Architectural Practices Ltd., the Hong Kong Designers Association, the Interior Design Association, the American Institute of Architects and the Hong Kong Institute of Architects.

As an accomplished architect, interior designer and artist, William has a passion for Chinese antiquities and contemporary arts and crafts and is actively involved in many public art installation projects. He is also acclaimed for the wide variety of artistic elements he integrates into his architectural and design pieces. William’s works can be described as “contemporary modern with Asian elements”. His mastery of his oeuvre is probably best exemplified in a recent art installation that incorporated traditional Chinese craftsmanship in the form of bamboo scaffolding. Over the years, William’s work has been exhibited in Hong Kong, Chengdu, the United States and the Netherlands. Standout shows include Venice Biennale‘s International Architectural Exhibitions of both 2006 and 2010 and the Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture in 2007, 2009 and 2012. In 2012, William held a retrospective exhibition on his work entitled – Space Journey: William Lim, A Decade of Installations in Hong Kong.

Anthony Lo

A native Hongkonger, Anthony Lo graduated in 1985 from Hong Kong Polytechnic University with a degree in Industrial Design before earning his Master’s at London’s Royal College of Art.

Anthony’s first break came fresh out of college when he was given a position with Colin Chapman’s iconic Lotus car company. In 1990, he moved to Audi, Germany to work on the A4. Three years later, he was catapulted into the international arena when Car Styling Magazine highlighted his design for the 1993 Tokyo Motor Show and Mercedes-Benz Japan hired him to work on its M-B F200 and Maybach concept cars.

Other career standouts came when Anthony was recruited as Saab Sweden’s Chief Designer (Advanced Design) in 2000. Four years later, he advanced to Head of Advanced Design for GM Europe’s Saab, Opel and Vauxhall marques. In 2011, Anthony’s journey took him to France where he accepted Renault’s challenge to become Vice President of Exterior Design.

Over the years, Lo’s work has received numerous accolades. In addition to his 2001 induction into the Interior Design Hall of Fame and a 2002 German Red Dot, they include his naming as Fashion Group International’s 2003 Star Honoree for Architecture and a 2006 United States’ AutoWeek Best in Show Award. In 2012, Lo was named “World’s Outstanding Chinese Designer” by the Hong Kong Design Centre.

Kai-Yin Lo

Kai-Yin Lo is renowned for having pioneered the creation of a contemporary and easy-to-wear style of traditional Chinese jewelry. Having elevated semi-precious stones’ into a mainstay in jewelry design, she was named the “World’s Leading Chinese Designer” by the Hong Kong Design Centre in 2007.

A noted authority on several fields of Chinese art and culture, Kai-Yin has published five books in English and Chinese. The topics covered range across everything from Chinese white ceramics, furniture and architecture to vernacular living environments and design culture itself. Over the years, Kai-Yin has curated the Hong Kong official Design Exhibition’s Hong Kong: Creative Ecologies – Business, Living, Creativity at 2010 Shanghai Expo. In celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the Hong Kong Design Centre, she later went on to co-curate the follow-up Creative Ecologies + (Nov 2012 – Jan 2013). Kai-Yin currently serves as Principle Visiting Lecturer in Cross Culture at Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design in London. She also holds numerous other advisory positions at leading museums and design bodies. They include a Committee membership at Hong Kong’s M+ Museum, West Kowloon Cultural District Authority, and positions on the Board of Directors at the Hong Kong Design Centre and the Gallery Advisory Committee at Asia Society’s Hong Kong Centre.

Teddy Lo

Based in Hong Kong, Teddy Lo is an acclaimed LED artist who has exhibited his works in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. Well-recognized in the international art circles as a pioneering figure in the “Tech-Art” scene, Lo’s best-known works present a fusion of technological and aesthetic elements.

In 2003, Lo held his first solo art exhibition, Morphology, in New York City. That same year, he was included in lighting magazine’s “Who’s Who of Lighting 2004” list, for his contributions to the lighting industry. Since then, Lo has held solo exhibitions in prestigious locations around the world, including Luminale in Frankfurt, Legacy and Creations – Ink Art vs Ink Art and Art vs Art at Hong Kong Museum of Art, I Light Marina Bay in Singapore and Transmutation in New York.

In 2010, Lo received his Master degree in Lighting at the Queensland University of Technology in Australia. In addition to continuing his artistic pursuits, Lo is the founder and Chief Vision Officer of LEDARTIST, an LED experience design company in Hong Kong, New York and Shanghai.

Kingsley Ng

An interdisciplinary artist, Kingsley Ng sets his focus on conceptual, site-specific and community-oriented projects. To him, art the byproduct that shows human’s existence in its time and space; it should be socially relevant, employing contemporary language and media to render the issues of our time. He also believes that art is a common medium that can mediate ideas and distribute them across a larger public, so he connects his works and space through media in formats such as interactive installation, public workshop, sound and spatial design.

He received his postgraduate training at Le Fresnoy− National Studio of Contemporary Arts in France with the highest honors (les felicitation du jury à l’unanimité) and his Master of Science degree in Sustainable Design from the University of Edinburgh in UK. His art and design projects were exhibited in notable international forums in Japan, France, Italy and Canada.

Yeung Chin

Yeung Chin is best known for his creative flair in the reconfiguration of body shape through his clothing design. He is notable by experimenting with exceptional materials in his designs for striking visual effects. Instead of simply mixing and matching, he creates his own definition of aesthetics by experimenting with extreme materials, such as pairing raw wood on soft fabrics. In his latest work, he is passionately interested in sculptural work and has re-examined and hence explored new ways to shape and form through this new medium.

His innovative ideas have enabled him to play a key role in designing the main sportswear line and the design performance for the China team in the Olympic Games in Beijing. He graduated with a Master of Art in Fashion Design from the University of Westminster in 2009. His success has then brought him into the international arena, where his work was presented in the London Cheers Exhibition in 2009.

Elaine Young

Elaine Young is always interested in what other creatures can “see”, animal behaviors and evolution, and the latest postulation of DNA research in science. Of particular concern, effects of technology in creating massive shifts in reshaping the way we live and other themes related to life sciences set the foundation for the establishment of LAByrinth (2005). This biotech fashion brand features a range of design items as a vehicle for initiating science education enterprises. It exploits the concept of DNA, microscopic images, visual culture and technologies to craft the brand’s philosophy. Young hopes that people will remember to reconsider the significance of all the matters that can and cannot be seen such as perspective, time and biological limitation through “wearing the wonders of the invisible world”.

Elaine Young is a Canadian-born Chinese designer who began her studies in philosophy and political theory, but completed her Bachelor degree with a major in Studio Arts and minors in History and Communication Theory from the University of Toronto.