TPOD

He is an international award-winning designer, researcher and educator, motivated with curiosity towards trend and emergence in art, design, technology, business, psychology and sociology. His works often explored and questioned the inter-relationship between human, objects, space and technology. He is the founding director of the Design Incubation Centre at the National University of Singapore, a design research lab which he founded and lead from 2006-2018. Works and projects, he has created or directed have been represented by or exhibited in galleries and museums around the world, including Triennale de Milano and MoMA in New York. In 2013, he received the Designer of the Year Award, the highest accolades of design excellence from the President of the Republic of Singapore in recognition of his body of work, which includes his design, research and teaching.

Business experience: 26years (as of Sep 2020)

2020: Started new projects with NUS-Singapore Airlines Digital Innovation Corporate Laboratory
2018: Presented “Exchange Forms” with Eizo Okada at Milan Design Week
2015: Co-curated Singapore Design, The Alchemist with Stefano Casciani at Milan Design Week
2013: Published Design Incubator: A prototype for new design practice (Laurence King Publishing UK)
2013: Designer of the Year, President Design Award, Singapore
2006-2018: Established the Design Incubation Centre
2006: Awarded The Best Breakthrough Acts by Wallpaper* Magazine
2002: Started to collaborate with Time and Style

1993: BA Industrial Design, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology