FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
30 August 2006
THE JURY IS OUT FOR THE INAUGURAL PRESIDENT’S DESIGN AWARD
The jury for the upcoming President’s Design Award has now been
officially announced. There are four award categories this year: (a) Architecture &
Urban Design, (b) Interior Design, (c) Visual Communications, and (d) Product
and Industrial Design. The jury members, comprising several renowned
international designers, are in Singapore from 28 to 30 August 2006 for the
judging process. They will nominate suitable candidates from each category,
submit their recommendations to Chairman of the President’s Design Award
Steering Committee, who will in turn submit the decision to the President for final
approval.
2.
The President’s Design Award Steering Committee is chaired by Mr
Edmund Cheng, Chairman of DesignSingapore Council. Mr Cheng is also the
Deputy Chairman of Wing Tai Holdings Ltd and Managing Director of Wing Tai
Land. He is joined by four other members including Mrs Cheong Koon Hean,
CEO of Urban Redevelopment Authority, Singapore; Mr Roland Krueger,
Managing Director of BMW Asia Pte Ltd; Mr Lee Suan Hiang, CEO of National
Arts Council and Dr Milton Tan, MICA Fellow (Design) at the Ministry of
Information, Communications and the Arts, Singapore, and Director of the
DesignSingapore Council.
3.
The President’s Design Award is co-presented by the DesignSingapore
Council and the Urban Redevelopment Authority, Singapore to promote greater
design excellence in our nation. The award is an acknowledgement of good
designs in the fields of architecture and urban design, product and industrial
design, interior design and visual communication design. Two distinct, meritbased categories of the Awards are offered annually. One category is for
‘Singapore Designers of the Year’, the other is for ‘Singapore Designs of the
Year’.
4.
For the discipline of Architecture and Urban Design (A&UD) under the
category of ‘Singapore Designs of the Year’, separate awards will be given out
for the following projects involving Singapore citizens and permanent residents of
Singapore: (i) Built-in-Singapore projects, and (ii) Overseas projects.
5.
The jury members for Architecture & Urban Design are:
(i) Mrs Cheong Koon Hean, CEO of Urban Redevelopment Authority, Singapore;
(ii) Mr Shozo Baba, President, Architectural Communication Consultant Limited;
(iii) Mr Alan Choe, Consultant Architect / Planner of Alan F C Choe Consultant
(Singapore); and
(iv) Ms Rita Soh, Architect, SIA President and BOA Board Member (Singapore).
6.
Jury members for the Interior Design category are:
(i) Ms Madeline Lester, President of International Federation of Interior
Architects/Designers (IFI) and Managing Director of Madeline Lester +
Associates (Sydney/Australia);
(ii) Ms Shashi Caan, Principal of Shashi Caan Collective and Chair of Interior
Design at Parsons School of Design (New York, USA); and
(iii) Mr Kerry Hill, Principal of Kerry Hill Architects (Singapore / Australia).
7.
Jury members for Product and Industrial Design category are:
(i) Professor, Dr Peter Zac, who is President of International Council of Societies
of Industrial Design (ICSID); President of Red Dot GmbH & CoKG; President of
Design Zentrum; and Professor for Business Communication at the University of
Applied Sciences Berlin (Essen, Germany);
(ii) Ms Verena Kloos, President of BMW Group DesignworksUSA (Los Angeles,
USA) and Mr Jae-Jin Shim, Vice-President of Digital Display & Media Design Lab
Corporate Design Center, LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, Korea).
8.
The jury members for Visual Communications are:
(i) Professor Don Ryun Chang, President-Elect of International Council of
Graphic Design Associations (ICOGRADA), and Department Chair of Visual
Communications Design at Hongik University (Seoul, Korea);
(ii) Ms Lim Sau Hoong, CEO and Executive Creative Director of 10AM
Communications (Singapore); and
(iii) Dr Milton Tan, MICA Fellow (Design) at the Ministry of Information,
Communications and the Arts, Singapore, and Director of the DesignSingapore
Council.
9.
Please refer to Annex A for more information on the jury members.
About the President’s Design Award
10.
The President’s Design Award recognises the significant contributions and
achievements of design talents in our nation. It is the highest honour accorded to
designers and designs from all disciplines that have made a strong and positive
impact on the art, design and cultural landscape of Singapore. The award also
provides a mark of excellence for Singapore designers and students to aspire
towards. While engendering national pride among Singaporeans for outstanding
designs and leading designers in Singapore, it in turn nurtures among
Singaporeans a greater awareness and interest in quality designs in all areas.
ISSUED BY:
DESIGNSINGAPORE COUNCIL,
MINISTRY OF INFORMATION, COMMUNICATIONS & THE ARTS, AND
URBAN REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY, SINGAPORE
30 August 2006
Press Contacts
1.
Charlotte Chin
DesignSingapore Council
Ministry of Information, Communications & the Arts
Email: charlotte_chin@mica.gov.sg
T +65 6837 9290
F +65 6837 9686
140 Hill Street
5th Storey MICA Building,
Singapore 179369
charlotte_chin@mica.gov.sg
2.
Aida Tay
Urban Redevelopment Authority
Email: aida_tay@ura.gov.sg
T +65 6321 8136
F +65 6226 3549
45 Maxwell Road
The URA Centre
Singapore 069118
[For queries related to A&UD category]
About DesignSingapore Council
Design changes and improves lives, inspires creativity and new forms of
expression. It also enhances business competitiveness in today’s crowded
marketplace.
DesignSingapore is Singapore’s response to these propositions and
opportunities. As a national initiative, DesignSingapore aims to place Singapore
on the world map for design creativity. It looks to developing a thriving, multidisciplinary design cluster of industries and activities in Singapore that has
relevance and impact globally. The initiative also aims to bring design to
business boardrooms, new audiences and new markets.
The DesignSingapore Council, set up since August 2003 by the Ministry of
Information, Communications and the Arts, is the public organisation for
promotion and development of Singapore design.
In 2005, the Council presented SINGAPOREdge featuring 100 of Singapore’s
design talents in London and launched the inaugural Singapore Design Festival
with 134 events contributed by 88 partners. The Council has also taken
Singapore design exhibitions to the 2004 Venice Biennale International
Architecture Exhibition, Sao Paulo Architecture Biennial in 2005, World Expo
2005 at Aichi and, most recently, the Salone Internazionale Del Mobile in April
2006. Next on the agenda will be the Venice Biennale and London Design
Festival in September 2006.
More information on the Council is available at www.designsingapore.org.
About Urban Redevelopment Authority
The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) is Singapore’s national land use
planning authority. URA’s mission is “to make Singapore a great city to live, work
and play in.” We carry out our mission by planning and facilitating the physical
development of Singapore, in partnership with the community, to create a vibrant,
sustainable and cosmopolitan city of distinction.
To create an exciting cityscape, URA also actively promotes architecture and
urban design excellence. URA organises architecture exhibitions and seminars,
as well as design competitions, to create an awareness and appreciation for
good design and to encourage greater creativity in design.
Log on to www.ura.gov.sg for more details.
ANNEX A
THE PRESIDENT”S DESIGN AWARD STEERING COMMITTEE
ARE :
Chairman - Mr Edmund Cheng
Chairman,
DesignSingapore
Council, Deputy
Chairman of Wing Tai
Holdings Ltd and
Managing Director of
Wing Tai Land
Mrs Cheong-Chua Koon Hean
CEO, Urban
Redevelopment
Authority (Singapore)
Mr Roland Krueger
Managing Director,
BMW Asia Pte Ltd
Mr Lee Suan Hiang
CEO, National Arts
Council (Singapore)
Dr Milton Tan
MICA Fellow (Design), Ministry of
Information, Communications and the Arts
(Singapore) and Director, DesignSingapore
Council
THE JURY FOR THE PRESIDENT’S DESIGN AWARD ARE :
Architecture & Urban Design
Mrs Cheong-Chua Koon Hean*
CEO, Urban
Redevelopment
Authority (Singapore)
Mr Shozo Baba
Chairman, Architecture
of the Year Award
(Japan)
Mr Alan Choe
Consultant Architect /
Planner, Alan F C
Choe Consultant
(Singapore)
Ms Rita Soh
Interior Design
Ms Madeline Lester*
President, Singapore
Institute of Architects
(Singapore)
President, IFI and
Managing Director,
Madeline Lester +
Associates (Australia)
Ms Shashi Caan
Principal, Shashi Caan
Collective and Chair of
Interior Design,
Parsons School of
Design (USA)
Mr Kerry Hill
Principal, Kerry Hill
Architects (Singapore /
Australia)
Product and Industrial Design
Prof Dr Peter Zec*
President, ICSID; red
dot GmbH; Design
Zentrum and
Professor, University of
Applied Sciences
Berlin(Essen,Germany)
Ms Verena Kloos
President, BMW Group
DesignworksUSA
(USA)
Mr Jae-Jin Shim
Vice-President of Digital Display & Media
Design Lab Corporate Design Centre, LG
Electronics Inc.(Seoul, Korea)
Visual Communications
Prof Don Ryun Chang*
President-Elect of International Council of
Graphic Design Associations (ICOGRADA),
and Department Chair of Visual
Communications Design, Hongik University
(Seoul, Korea)
Ms Lim Sau Hoong
CEO and Executive
Creative Director of 10AM
Communications (Singapore)
Dr Milton Tan
MICA Fellow (Design) at the Ministry of
Information, Communications and the Arts
(Singapore) and Director, DesignSingapore
Council
* Chair of Jury
Background on President’s Design Award Steering
Committee
Chairman
Mr Edmund Cheng
Dy Chairman
Wing Tai
Holdings
Mrs Cheong-Chua
Koon Hean
CEO, Urban
Redevelopment
Authority
Mr Edmund Cheng has been serving as
the
Chairman
of
DesignSingapore
Council since August 2003, and is
concurrently the Chairman of the
President’s Design Award Steering
Committee. Mr Cheng is also the
Deputy Chairman of the Singaporelisted Wing Tai Holdings Limited and
Managing Director of Wing Tai Land.
Besides his experience as a private
developer,
Mr
Cheng
has
been
extensively involved with government
agencies in projects relating to
Urban Planning and Building Arts as the Chairman of task forces and
non-profit art institutions. Notable
ones
include
the
Geylang
East
Development Guide Plan for URA, the
REDAS
Building
Art
Fund
and
Sculpture
Square,
Singapore's
arts
dedicated
3-dimensional
promotion and exhibition facility.
Mrs Cheong-Chua Koon Hean is the
Chief Executive Officer of the Urban
Redevelopment Authority (URA), which
is the planning and conservation
authority of Singapore. She is also
concurrently the Deputy Secretary
(Special Duties) in the Ministry of
National Development. She advises
the
Minister
for
National
Development on land use and planning
policies, the property market, the
government land sales programme as
well as public housing policies. Mrs
Cheong is also a board member of the
Jurong
Town
Corporation,
which
focuses
on
the
development
of
industrial, business and science
parks, as well as the National
Heritage Board.
Mr Roland
Krueger
Managing
Director, BMW
Asia Pte Ltd
Mr Roland Krueger is currently the
Managing Director of BMW Asia Pte
Ltd, Singapore. Prior to this, he
was the product manager, team leader
for product and price planning and
the head of regional marketing for
the BMW Group in Munich. Previously,
he was a designer for the Smart –
Micro Compact Car for MercedesBenz/Swatch
JV
and
also
for
Mitsubishi Motors.
Mr Lee Suan
Hiang
CEO, National
Arts Council
Dr Milton Tan
Director
DesignSingapore
Council
(Singapore)
An industrial designer by training,
Mr Lee Suan Hiang is currently the
CEO of National Arts Council (NAC)
and Chairman of PSB Corporation.
Prior to this, he was the CEO of
SPRING Singapore and the Dy MD of
Economic Development Board (EDB). Mr
Lee was awarded the National Day
Public
Administration
Gold
and
Silver Medals in 1998 and 1992.
Dr
Milton
Tan
is
MICA
Fellow
(Design)
at
the
Ministry
of
Information, Communications and the
Arts, Singapore, and Director of the
DesignSingapore Council. He is a
board
member
of
Land
Transport
Authority (LTA) and President of the
Harvard Club of Singapore.
Prior to this, Dr Tan was Head of
Architecture
at
the
National
University of Singapore (NUS) from
1998-2002. Under his leadership, Dr
Tan was instrumental in reshaping
the NUS architecture program to be
design and research driven. He was
the founding Director for its Centre
for Advanced Studies in Architecture
(CASA)
in
1994-98
for
academic
research, as well as its Centre for
Design Excellence (CDEx) in 19982000 for design research.
Background on President’s Design Award Jury
Jury for Architecture and Urban Design
Chair of Jury
Mrs Cheong-Chua
Koon Hean
Chief Executive
Officer, Urban
Redevelopment
Authority
(Singapore)
Mrs Cheong-Chua Koon Hean is the
Chief Executive Officer of the Urban
Redevelopment Authority (URA), which
is the planning and conservation
authority of Singapore. She is also
concurrently the Deputy Secretary
(Special Duties) in the Ministry of
National Development. She advises
the
Minister
for
National
Development on land use and planning
policies, the property market, the
government land sales programme as
well as public housing policies. Mrs
Cheong is also a board member of the
Jurong
Town
Corporation,
which
focuses
on
the
development
of
industrial, business and science
parks, as well as the National
Heritage Board.
Mr Shozo Baba is the Chairman of the
Architecture of the Year Award in
Japan and a Board member for the
Japan Inter-Design Forum.
Mr Shozo Baba
Director &
former editor
of The Japan
Architect and
Chairman of
Architecture of
the Year Award
(Japan) (Tokyo,
Japan)
Mr Alan Choe
Consultant
Architect /
Planner, Alan F
C Choe
He is also the Chairman for other
awards, including Saitama Scenic
Beauty Award and Kawagoe City Scenic
Beauty Award. He is a Board member
of the Yoshioka Bunko Scholarship
Foundation, Creative Town Okayama,
Triennale Nara planning Committee
and
the
Waseda
University
architectural alumni association.
Mr Baba is the President of the
Architectural
Communication
Consultant Ltd, a firm which he
established in 1991
Trained in Australia in architecture
and town planning, Mr Alan Choe is a
Member
of
the
professional
institutes of architecture and town
planning in Singapore, Australia,
the United Kingdom and the United
States. In 1974, he helped set up
the Urban Redevelopment Authority of
Singapore (URA) and became its first
General Manager.
He
was
the
longest
serving
Board
Consultant
(Singapore)
member of the Singapore Tourist
Promotion
Board
and
Sentosa
Development
Corporation
and
was
involved in many of the tourism
projects including the planning and
development of Sentosa Island.
Retired in 2003 as Chairman of
Sentosa
Development
Corporation,
Sentosa Cove Pte Ltd, and Sentosa
Golf Club (1987-2003) respectively,
he now sits on the boards of various
organizations and public / private
companies.
Ms Rita Soh
Architect, SIA
President and
BOA Board
Member
(Singapore)
Ms Rita Soh has been the President
of
the
Singapore
Institute
of
Architects for the past 2 years.
She is also the Chairman of the
Construction
Industries
Joint
Committee
and
the
Continuing
Professional
Development
SubCommittee. Ms Soh was awarded the
Distinguished
and
Merit
Award,
Spring Singapore, Standards Council
of Singapore in 2005 and 2002.
Jury for Interior Design
Chair of Jury
Ms Madeline
Lester
President,
International
Federation of
Interior
Architects/Desi
gners (IFI) and
Managing
Director,
Madeline Lester
+ Associates
(Sydney/Austral
ia)
Ms Madeline Lester is an interior
designer and a design management
consultant with over 35 years of
experience working in residential,
retail and commercial projects. She
now heads Madeline Lester +
Associates (MLA), serving key
clients to in a range of different
strategic design services on
projects and developments.
Passionate about her profession, Ms
Lester continues to lecture to
students of design. She is the
current President of the
International Federation of
Interior Architects and Designers
(IFI), is a Past National President
of the Design Institute of
Australia and the current Adjunct
Associate Professor of Interior
Architecture at the University of
New South Wales, Sydney.
Ms Shashi Caan
Principal,
Shashi Caan
Collective and
Chair of
Interior Design
at Parsons
School of
Design
(New York, USA)
Throughout her professional career at
some
of
New
York
City’s
most
prominent firms, Ms Shashi Caan has
made her mark with an understated
design
signature
using
multiple
layers
to
unite
architecture,
product, and interior design. As a
product designer, she has created
under her own name three textile
collections,
‘Bridging’,
‘Bridging
II’ and ‘Structures’.
Bridging
Caan is
Parsons,
the Year
practice and education, Ms
Chair of Interior Design at
and was named Educator of
by IFMA GNY in January 2006.
In recognition of her commitment to
furthering the field of architecture
and design, as well as her own work
as a designer, Ms Caan was awarded
the prestigious Interior Designer of
the Year Award in 2004.
Mr Kerry Hill, Principal of the
Singapore-based practice Kerry Hill
Architects, has been an influential
figure
in
South
East
Asian
architecture over the past three
decades.
Mr Kerry Hill
Principal,
Kerry Hill
Architects
(Singapore /
Australia)
He has completed some of the most
and
architecturally
ambitious
resolved projects to be found in
South-East
Asia,
work
which
is
resolutely
modern
while
in
a
traditional
setting.
Mr
Hills’s
practice has completed a significant
body of work across the region,
including a growing list of high
quality hotel and resort work, a
number
of
award-winning
houses,
mixed-use developments, and public
projects.
Jury for Product and Industrial Design
Chair of Jury
Prof Dr. Peter
Zec President,
International
Council of
Societies of
Industrial
Design (ICSID);
President red
dot GmbH &
CoKG;
President,
Design Zentrum;
and Professor
for Business
Communication,
University of
Applied
Sciences Berlin
(Essen,
Germany)
Prof. Dr. Peter Zec is currently the
President
of
the
international
umbrella organisation of design ICSID
(International Council of Societies
of Industrial Design) and will have a
decisive impact on the fortune of
design in the coming years. He is
also the President of red dot GmbH,
as well as the internationally known
German design centre in Essen Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen.
Prof. Dr. Zec is a media and art
scientist and psychologist, who has
been working in the design field for
over 20 years. He has held lectures,
and is still lecturing, in over 30
countries all over the world. As an
expert in the field of design and
communications he has written six
books and is publisher of two expert
yearbooks.
As the President of DesignworksUSA,
Ms Verena Kloos oversees the day-today
operations
and
strategic
direction of the California-based
international
strategic
design
consultancy owned by BMW Group.
Ms Verena Kloos
President, BMW
Group
DesignworksUSA
(Los Angeles,
USA)
Ms Kloos has extensive experience in
the United States, having served as
Design Director for Volkswagen in
Simi Valley, California from 1991-94.
She was also previously head of the
DaimlerChrysler
Advanced
Design
studio in Como, Italy.
Mr
Jae-Jin
Shim
has
held
the
position of Vice President / Chief
of Digital Display & Media Design
Laboratory at the Corporate Design
Center of LG Electronics Inc. in
Seoul, South Korea since 2000.
Mr Jae-Jin Shim
Vice-President,
Digital Display
& Media Design
Lab Corporate
Design Center,
LG Electronics
Inc.
(Seoul, Korea)
He has also been Vice Chairman of
the
Korea
Federation
of
Design
Associations since 2004 and Vice
Chairman of the Korea Association of
Industrial Designers from 2000 to
2003.
His previous experience as a Jury
include the LG Electronics design
competition from 1991-2001, the Korea
Industrial Design Competition from
2000-2004, and the iF Communication
Award in 2005.
Jury for Visual Communications
Chair of Jury
Prof Don Ryun
Chang
PresidentElect,
International
Council of
Graphic Design
Associations
(ICOGRADA), and
Department
Chair of Visual
Communications
Design, Hongik
University
(Seoul, Korea)
Prof Don Ryun Chang founded DC&A in
1991, which later became one of the
leading identity companies in Asia,
with
corporate
identity
clients
such as the Shilla Hotel, the Maeil
Business Group, M.net Television,
and
brand
identities
such
as
Sunpower
Battery
and
Santa
Fe
Coffee. The company merged with
Interbrand in July 1999.
Prof Chang has received numerous
international design awards from
prestigious organisations such as
the
Brno
and
Warsaw
Poster
Biennale, and the Type Directors
Club. He has served as a Vice
President of the Visual Information
Design Association of Korea (VIDAK)
and was the Executive Organizing
Director for the 2000 Icograda
Millennium Congress in Seoul. He is
currently the President-Elect for
ICOGRADA.
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Ms Lim Sau
Hoong CEO and
Executive
Creative
Director, 10AM
Communications
(Singapore)
Dr Milton Tan
Director
DesignSingapore
Council
(Singapore)
In Oct 2000, together with former
colleagues from O&M, Ms Lim Sau
Hoong started her own agency, 10AM
Communications, as the Executive
Creative Director.
She has received numerous creative
awards, including the London D&AD
award, Clio, One Show, Cannes, the
New
York
Advertising
Festival,
London
International
Advertising
Awards,
the
International
China
Times Creative Awards, Asia-Pacific
Media Awards and Singapore Creative
Circle Awards.
Dr
Milton
Tan
is
MICA
Fellow
(Design)
at
the
Ministry
of
Information, Communications and the
Arts, Singapore, and Director of
the DesignSingapore Council. He is
a board member of Land Transport
Authority (LTA) and President of
the Harvard Club of Singapore.
Prior to this, Dr Tan was Head of
Architecture
at
the
National
University of Singapore (NUS) from
1998-2002,
where
he
was
the
founding Director for its Centre
for
Advanced
Studies
in
Architecture (CASA) in 1994-98 for
academic research, as well as its
Centre for Design Excellence (CDEx)
in 1998-2000 for design research.
PDA Judging Session 28-30 August 2006
Credits: All Photos by Gwen Lee
Names according to order of photos:
1)Lim Sau Hoong
2)Shashi Caan
3)Kerry Hill
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