Barney McCann

Creative Director at a Design Agency

Graphic and Interactive Design

Quick-fire design brief responses, a number of very fast paced briefs given to students with no limitation on their suggestions for pitches. Development and ‘execution’ of their chosen pitch. (Poster design). Interactive Design experience with the LEAP Motion, using the UV hardware to track the motion of the users hands; showing how the technology works and can be used for various tools. Students to play with LEAP Motion on interactive games.

Sjoerd Hoekstra

Partner & Creative Director, Three Dogs / Retail Design

Retail Design and Design education at PolyU school of design

overview of threedogs retail design projects and basic retail design principles, quick intro to PolyU school of design Environment & Interiors programme, students will brainstorm new retail design concepts, Q&A interior design education and career options

Philippe Larose

Director at PHIL DESIGN

Retail Interior Design session

• Introduction of the company and our work.

• Introduction to our latest project "Velo City " in Hong Kong.

• Student activity- Design in sketch up the welcome area for the project above based on a given mood board.

• Review and discussion.

Judy Wong +

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Amelia Moss

Senior Manager, Technical - product development Apparel 

Senior Designer knitwear Apparel

Apparel Design and Product development

Design - refers to the activities involved in the creative of the style, look and feel of the product, including the materials and components required for production.

Product development - is the process of identifying a market opportunity, creating products that appeal to the market, developing technical specification, and testing and modifying the product for production.

John Denton

Director and Co founder of Lead 8 Architects

Designer as a story teller

The session will focus on the design process within the Architectural design industry. We will look at the ways in which the design is communicated at different stages of the process, drawings, computer 2D and 3D modelling, students will also experience augmented, as well as virtual reality.
the session will be hands on, where the students have to communicate their ideas.

Jen Paolini

Graphic Designer at Foodie Group Limited

Make Art, Get Money

A talk on working in the illustration, publishing, advertising, and media industries, experiences as an in-house creative and a freelance designer, life advice if you plan on going to art school, as well as different design disciplines. I’ll also touch upon UX/UI design and general design practices. As for an activity, I’m considering hosting a brainstorming exercise where I get the students to form teams and come up with a mobile app idea and logo. I’ll bring portfolios and work samples for the students to peruse.

Alan Peggie

Lecturer Fellow @ The Higher Education Institute (THEi) in Hong Kong

Places and spaces, designing for people.

We will be talking about Landscape Architecture, what do they do and how you can become one. We will try and cover the wide range of projects that you would be involved with and and will set the students a short design exercise to get their creative juices going!

Mubarak Marafa

Digital Designer +

Research Assistant in The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Interaction Design and User Experience

In my session I will introduce brand new concepts in Design thinking with regards to HCI and User Experience.

Nomera Ajmal

Founder and creative director at NOMERA jewellery

Silversmithing

Find all about silversmithing

Klaus Kummer

CEO of 2K Design

Design Drivers & Design Markers

Exploring the elements and parts of a design that give products identity.

Eddie Chan

Founder and principal N*ICE POPS of NICE COMPANY

N*ce Time

In this session:
You will be exploring start up, design, marketing, branding and business through a local food company

Ellis Lowers

interior retail and branding

“An introduction into brand experience and strategic retail design”

Intro of StartJG and personal experience • What is retail design? • What is brand experience? • Typical project process, From concept to completion • Defining the customer journey / Creative approach • Understanding materials and retail communication (Tone of voice) • Consideration of culture • Interactivity in retail • Learning sketching styles and 3d programmes. • Practical brief set

Jerome Tam

Director , Rush Hour Media

How to build a digital agency startup and what is UX/UI ?

+ Exploring the design process – from concept to production. + Sharing portfolios. + Predicting future trends. + How to introduce new products in the market place and the path of to becoming a designer.

Bibi Cheung

Founder of BIBIANNA Ltd.

Branding, marketing and starting up

This session is about marketing and branding for young people to startup their own brand concept and businesses, with a particular focus on the jewellery industry.

Enoch Ho

Fashion Designer/ Director Berayah Ltd.

Journey and Method of Fashion Design

Enoch decided to pursue his dream and set up Berayah in April of 2013.  With a special love for the draping technique of dressmaking, Enoch is able to create garments that are 3-Dimensional; placing every seam precisely to achieve best body proportions, intellectually creating clothes that flatter the wearer.

Jason Webster + Ari Liu

Senior Design Director at AT&T/ VTech

This session will involve a presentation and video's of David's work at AT&T and V/Tech. Examples will be brought it to deepen your knowledge.

Santina Bonini

Design Lecturer – Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Product Designer & Consultant – Design-BS

Creative Thinking and Creative Business

Ms Bonini’s will share her passion for design and present her portfolio of product and interior design. She will also explore how to find inspirations for product design and ways to prepare for a future in design.

Kay Liu

Education Manager, Redress (The organiser of The EcoChic Design Award)

Cutting waste out of fashion

There will be an introduction about fashion and the environment, focusing on the waste issue from the fashion industry in particular, and followed by an activity to learn how a garment is made and to explore ideas for actions that can be taken to reduce negative impact on our planet. A PowerPoint presentation and videos will be shown.

Simon Kwan

Senior Creative at Watermark Products

The Innovation Intersection

The place where desire, profit, potential, and responsibility meet to make awesome

Victoria Leigh

Owner and Designer at Victoria Leigh Design and Trend

Textile Design for Fashion and Interiors

My journey and experience from being a student until now and what it takes to be a textile designer

Garlake Wong

Assistant Director of Admission, SCAD Hong Kong

How to Prepare a Dynamic Portfolio

What higher education institutions are expecting from an incoming freshman portfolio. I will also cover information about SCAD Hong Kong and the possibilities of careers in art and design fields.

Sarah Williamson

Creative Director - Jack Morton Worldwide

“Point of View” – the difference between “good enough” and “ground breaking”.

Regardless of your design “choice” or “subject”, having a POV is an important differentiator for success in the Creative Industry today. What you think and who you are, are equally as important to being a designer, as the hard skills (like drawing or manipulating computer software). This session explores key POV communication skills via; A quick introduction to experience design and POV designers. Open discussion. Practical exploration in groups - covering: Taking the brief. (listening) Having a POV. (thinking and finding your “way in” to a project) Presenting: (convincing & inspiring others)

Anne Carroll Marshall

Assistant Director of Admission, SCAD Hong Kong

Designing around jewels

This session is an introduction to  me and the industry I work in followed by a choice of a design project or research project

A):  Fashion company wants new jewellery designs for Spring/Summer 2017

B):  Designing jewellery for a period movie - research period/ propose materials.  

Tim Wong

Creative Director / Founder

Turn Your Passion Into a Business

During the design day session, I will be sharing my experience with the students on how I turned my hobby / passion into a business. A terrarium workshop will take place after my introduction.

Barney McCann

Creative Director at a Design Agency

Graphic and Interactive Design

Quick-fire design brief responses, a number of very fast paced briefs given to students with no limitation on their suggestions for pitches. Development and ‘execution’ of their chosen pitch. (Poster design). Interactive Design experience with the LEAP Motion, using the UV hardware to track the motion of the users hands; showing how the technology works and can be used for various tools. Students to play with LEAP Motion on interactive games.

Sjoerd Hoekstra

Partner & Creative Director, Three Dogs / Retail Design

Retail Design and Design education at PolyU school of design

overview of threedogs retail design projects and basic retail design principles, quick intro to PolyU school of design Environment & Interiors programme, students will brainstorm new retail design concepts, Q&A interior design education and career options

Philippe Larose

Director at PHIL DESIGN

Retail Interior Design session

• Introduction of the company and our work.

• Introduction to our latest project "Velo City " in Hong Kong.

• Student activity- Design in sketch up the welcome area for the project above based on a given mood board.

• Review and discussion.

Judy Wong +

​

Amelia Moss

Senior Manager, Technical - product development Apparel 

Senior Designer knitwear Apparel

Apparel Design and Product development

Design - refers to the activities involved in the creative of the style, look and feel of the product, including the materials and components required for production.

Product development - is the process of identifying a market opportunity, creating products that appeal to the market, developing technical specification, and testing and modifying the product for production.

John Denton

Director and Co founder of Lead 8 Architects

Designer as a story teller

The session will focus on the design process within the Architectural design industry. We will look at the ways in which the design is communicated at different stages of the process, drawings, computer 2D and 3D modelling, students will also experience augmented, as well as virtual reality.
the session will be hands on, where the students have to communicate their ideas.

Jen Paolini

Graphic Designer at Foodie Group Limited

Make Art, Get Money

A talk on working in the illustration, publishing, advertising, and media industries, experiences as an in-house creative and a freelance designer, life advice if you plan on going to art school, as well as different design disciplines. I’ll also touch upon UX/UI design and general design practices. As for an activity, I’m considering hosting a brainstorming exercise where I get the students to form teams and come up with a mobile app idea and logo. I’ll bring portfolios and work samples for the students to peruse.

Alan Peggie

Lecturer Fellow @ The Higher Education Institute (THEi) in Hong Kong

Places and spaces, designing for people.

We will be talking about Landscape Architecture, what do they do and how you can become one. We will try and cover the wide range of projects that you would be involved with and and will set the students a short design exercise to get their creative juices going!

Mubarak Marafa

Digital Designer +

Research Assistant in The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Interaction Design and User Experience

In my session I will introduce brand new concepts in Design thinking with regards to HCI and User Experience.

Nomera Ajmal

Founder and creative director at NOMERA jewellery

Silversmithing

Find all about silversmithing

Klaus Kummer

CEO of 2K Design

Design Drivers & Design Markers

Exploring the elements and parts of a design that give products identity.

Eddie Chan

Founder and principal N*ICE POPS of NICE COMPANY

N*ce Time

In this session:
You will be exploring start up, design, marketing, branding and business through a local food company

Ellis Lowers

interior retail and branding

“An introduction into brand experience and strategic retail design”

Intro of StartJG and personal experience • What is retail design? • What is brand experience? • Typical project process, From concept to completion • Defining the customer journey / Creative approach • Understanding materials and retail communication (Tone of voice) • Consideration of culture • Interactivity in retail • Learning sketching styles and 3d programmes. • Practical brief set

Jerome Tam

Director , Rush Hour Media

How to build a digital agency startup and what is UX/UI ?

+ Exploring the design process – from concept to production. + Sharing portfolios. + Predicting future trends. + How to introduce new products in the market place and the path of to becoming a designer.

Bibi Cheung

Founder of BIBIANNA Ltd.

Branding, marketing and starting up

This session is about marketing and branding for young people to startup their own brand concept and businesses, with a particular focus on the jewellery industry.

Enoch Ho

Fashion Designer/ Director Berayah Ltd.

Journey and Method of Fashion Design

Enoch decided to pursue his dream and set up Berayah in April of 2013.  With a special love for the draping technique of dressmaking, Enoch is able to create garments that are 3-Dimensional; placing every seam precisely to achieve best body proportions, intellectually creating clothes that flatter the wearer.

Jason Webster + Ari Liu

Senior Design Director at AT&T/ VTech

This session will involve a presentation and video's of David's work at AT&T and V/Tech. Examples will be brought it to deepen your knowledge.

Santina Bonini

Design Lecturer – Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Product Designer & Consultant – Design-BS

Creative Thinking and Creative Business

Ms Bonini’s will share her passion for design and present her portfolio of product and interior design. She will also explore how to find inspirations for product design and ways to prepare for a future in design.

Kay Liu

Education Manager, Redress (The organiser of The EcoChic Design Award)

Cutting waste out of fashion

There will be an introduction about fashion and the environment, focusing on the waste issue from the fashion industry in particular, and followed by an activity to learn how a garment is made and to explore ideas for actions that can be taken to reduce negative impact on our planet. A PowerPoint presentation and videos will be shown.

Simon Kwan

Senior Creative at Watermark Products

The Innovation Intersection

The place where desire, profit, potential, and responsibility meet to make awesome

Victoria Leigh

Owner and Designer at Victoria Leigh Design and Trend

Textile Design for Fashion and Interiors

My journey and experience from being a student until now and what it takes to be a textile designer

Garlake Wong

Assistant Director of Admission, SCAD Hong Kong

How to Prepare a Dynamic Portfolio

What higher education institutions are expecting from an incoming freshman portfolio. I will also cover information about SCAD Hong Kong and the possibilities of careers in art and design fields.

Sarah Williamson

Creative Director - Jack Morton Worldwide

“Point of View” – the difference between “good enough” and “ground breaking”.

Regardless of your design “choice” or “subject”, having a POV is an important differentiator for success in the Creative Industry today. What you think and who you are, are equally as important to being a designer, as the hard skills (like drawing or manipulating computer software). This session explores key POV communication skills via; A quick introduction to experience design and POV designers. Open discussion. Practical exploration in groups - covering: Taking the brief. (listening) Having a POV. (thinking and finding your “way in” to a project) Presenting: (convincing & inspiring others)

Anne Carroll Marshall

Assistant Director of Admission, SCAD Hong Kong

Designing around jewels

This session is an introduction to  me and the industry I work in followed by a choice of a design project or research project

A):  Fashion company wants new jewellery designs for Spring/Summer 2017

B):  Designing jewellery for a period movie - research period/ propose materials.  

Tim Wong

Creative Director / Founder

During the design day session, I will be sharing my experience with the students on how I turned my hobby / passion into a business. A terrarium workshop will take place after my introduction.