Brian Kwok's book won Hong Kong Book Prize 2019

Congratulations to Mr. Brian Kwok, leader of BA (Communication Design) and Information Design Lab, on receiving the Hong Kong Book Prize from RTHK and Hong Kong Publishing Federation with his book, 'Fading of Hong Kong neon lights – The archive of Hong Kong visual culture' (霓虹黯色――香港街道視覺文化記錄)! The book was chosen from 400+ entries as one of Best 11 Books in 2019. Full winner list: https://app4.rthk.hk/culture/12thbookprize/final_list.php

Postponement of Annual Show Opening

We would like to inform you that today’s (12 June) opening ceremony for PolyU Design Annual Show 2019 will be postponed due to the strikes relating to the extradition law. Some of the participating students could not exhibit their works. The events are now rescheduled as follows: Exhibition Public Opening:  Date: 19 June, 2019 (next Wednesday)  Time: 11:30 am – 7:30 pm Venue: Jockey Club Innovation Tower, PolyU Exhibition Opening Cocktail Reception (registered guests only):  Date: 19 June, 2019  Time: 5:00 – 7:00 pm Venue: Innovation Think Tank  13/F., Jockey Club Innovation Tower, PolyU We would be most grateful if you could mark your diary and participate in the PolyU Design Annual Show 2019. Thank you. PolyU Design

PolyU Design hosts top Chinese design schools on the future of design research

On 27 May, Prof. Kun-Pyo Lee, dean of PolyU Design hosted the deans from three top design schools in Mainland China.  We were pleased to discuss with Prof. Yongqi Lou, dean of Tongji University College of Design and Innovation, Prof. Renke He, dean of Hunan University School of Design, and Prof. Jun Cai, head of DMI in Tsinghua University on facilitating high quality design research and formulating an open platform through collaboration.  

PolyU Design initiates collaboration with Midea Group on AI and home appliances

Invited by the Laundry Division of Midea Group, our Dean Prof. Kun Pyo Lee, Mr. Benny Leong and Dr. Sylvia Liu visited Midea Group in Wuxi on 23 May 2019, where Prof. Lee delivered a speech on “New Emerging Design Paradigm: Open, Big, Deep” covering the new design paradigm and future of UX to the whole design team. During the visit, the parties confirmed the collaboration direction on “AI and Home Appliances".

PolyU Design participated in the 9th PhD Colloquium on Design Research

PolyU Design participated in the 9th PhD Colloquium on Design Research, under the colloquium theme: Fundamental Hypothesis in Design Research, on 18 May. As one of the seven participating design schools from China, we were represented by our PhD candidates Mr. Daniel Echeverri, Mrs. Lusha Huang and Mr. Markus Wernli. Prof. Kun-Pyo Lee, Dean of PolyU Design, delivered one of two keynote addresses entitled: Design Education in the Era of AI. Last but not least, Mr. Daniel Echeverri was awarded the Best Presentation of the 9th Colloquium for his inspiring presentation on "An Empirical Exploration of Agency, Engagement, and Transportation in the Context of Playable Stories". Congratulations! Participating Universities:  National Cheng Kung University (Organizer) Guangdong University of Technology (Co-Organizer) Jiangnan University Tongji University The Hong Kong Polytechnic University School of Design Hunan University

Bronze ADC Cube Award Winner: Readyset enhances elderly's medication experience

Readyset is designed by a group of Year 3 Communication Design students (Lok Ngai Lego Lam, Ping Ting Lee, Man Yin Chan and Rachel Yin) to facilitate better medication administration and experience for elderly.  The pen shape design is highly portable, as well as very versatile for storing and stacking circular tablets while not wasting space like any rectangular shape. It is a good idea to integrate the pen mechanism into taking drugs as well. With its emphasis on convenience and portability, the design title comes from the phrase “Ready, Set, Go!” in sports events by which the designers hope to connect the products to the consumers with the ready-to-go feature. This health communication design for elderly won a Bronze ADC Cube Award which the design ceremony held and announced by The One Club for Creativity, an international design competition, in New York in early May. Congratulations to the team and their supervising tutor Mr. Brian Kwok! The design of Readyset is attempted to achieve the following features: 1. Hygiene In order to achieve the goal of hygienic drug taking action, the team have developed the pen-like mechanism - Readyset, allowing the elderly does not need to have direct contact of the flesh with the pills. The Readyset can eliminate the chance of contaminating the pills with bare hands, as well as allowing the elderly to take the medication easily on the go. 2. Organiser Readyset is designed to unify different pills into one single column, allowing the elderly to organize medication easily and reducing the required storage space in a household environment. The label attached on the pen-like device extract the most considering information based on the result that the team collected from the user tests. 3. Customizable Readyset provides various materials and colorways for the elderly to choose based on their preference, to create a personalized drug-taking experience. Also for the identification ring on the pen, the customizable feature, on one hand, allow customers to choose the color they like, as well as allowing them to differentiate their pen within a household area. 4. Portable The lightweight and small-size design aim to provide a better drug-taking experience when the elderly is commuting. The design allows them easing with all procedures required in traditional medication.

PolyU cross-disciplinary team’s diet tracking app shines at hackUST

The team of 3 students from PolyU Design and the Department of Logistics and Maritime Studies, Faculty of Business won the 1st Runner-up in hackathon@HKUST 2019, an overnight competition organised by HKUST and Jardine Restaurant Group with over 90 teams from 31 countries joined to develop an innovative software idea to improve restaurant operations on 13-14 April.  The award was attained with their innovative mobile app ‘IDIET’ that tracks diet habit on eating out with a reward system and provides health and meal suggestions based on algorithm.  The cross-disciplinary team was formed by Kwok Ho Hin Edwin (Final Year, Social Design-BA), Tsoi Ho Ching Shaun and Law Wing Sum Sebastiane (Year 3 and 2 respectively, International Shipping and Transport Logistics-BBA), among which Edwin was in charge of the interface design that easy-to-read information graphics were applied to ensure a user friendly operation. The other two business students came from the university sports team that diet management has been part of their routine thus became their source of inspiration.  Having won the award and cash reward, the students were given the internship opportunities, business consultancy service, free design software and a pitch to the Group’s management for the chance of developing their proposal into a real project.  Congratulations!  (photos supplied by the students)

Outstanding design student exhibits at the Library

Cindy Chan, the Most Outstanding PolyU Student 2018 and current product design student taking her final year study, is joining other two PolyU students to showcase their works at the Podium floor of Pao Yue-kong Library until July. The exhibition is part of the soft-launch of PolyU Outstanding Work by Students (OWS) portal that is to showcase and build pride in students’ outstanding work and to kindle the aspiration of fellow PolyU members towards excellence. Cindy’s story: https://polyu.hk/sFQny The exhibition: https://bit.ly/2IZVLmr

Environment and Interior Design Students entered the international Asia’s Young Designer Award 2019

Student teams of Environment and Interior Design Year 2 competed for entering the international Asia’s Young Designer Award in Singapore. The groups had different spatial proposals based on their study of the adaption of the local buildings in Tai O Fishing Village in Hong Kong. The Gold winning design titled ‘Narrative Space’ exaggerates the fascinating spatial qualities of the vernacular architecture of local stilt houses to project its very own character and the narrative of the space. The experience of joining the international competition in Singapore supported by our long-standing collaborator Nippon Paint enables the team to exchange ideas and make friends with other contestants from different cultures. 'Narrative Space' - Gold Winners, Asia’s Young Designer Award (HK) LAM Yuet Lai Timothy, WANG Yuanzhi Lesimo, YUEN Siu Faat Bryan Tutor: Michael Chan Mr LAM Yuet Lai Timothy, representing his other groupmates WANG Yuanzhi Lesimo and YUEN Siu Faat Bryan of the Gold Winning team, presented the 'Narrative Space’ project to the judges in the Asia Young Designer Awards International Summit 2019 in March. The teams were presenting their designs in class.   NARRATIVE SPACE Gold Winner, Asia’s Young Designer Award (HK) LAM Yuet Lai Timothy, WANG Yuanzhi Lesimo, YUEN Siu Faat Bryan BA(Hons) in Environment & Interior, Year 2 Tutor: Michael Chan Inspired by the unique environment of the stilt house in Tai O, the “Narrative Space” Design exaggerates the fascinating spatial qualities of the vernacular architecture, to project its very own character and the narrative of the space. Since the first settlement in Tai O 200 years ago, the living style of the early Tai O people inspired a unique building of habitat which stilt houses are built along the waterfront. The construction and evolution of these stilt house reflect the very nature of living traditions as a vernacular architecture in Hong Kong. Amazed by the contradiction between the exterior and interior experience, with all the lighting and texture in the space, the design project challenges to explore the dominance of spatial quality in the existing site. As to appreciate and embrace the unique vernacular architecture.

Movie producer Chu Chen On as PolyU outstanding alumnus 2019

Our proud alumnus Mr. Chu Chen On (Diploma in Design,1985/ BA in Design (Graphic Design),1988) are presented the Outstanding Alumni Award 2019 with other eight winners from other PolyU departments, in recognition of his distinguished professional accomplishments and significant contributions to the community and his alma mater. Mr. Chu, Co-founder of October Pictures Limited, has played a key role in making Hong Kong known to overseas film studios through the productions of Hollywood blockbusters like Batman: The Dark Knight, Transformers 4, and many more. Read his filmography on IMDB. Our heartfelt congratulations to him!   // Press Release - 2019.4.24 PolyU honours nine outstanding alumni The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) will present the "Outstanding Alumni Award 2019" to nine alumni in recognition of their distinguished professional accomplishments and significant contributions to the community and their alma mater. The award presentation ceremony will be held on 30 April 2019 (Tuesday). The award recipients, in alphabetical order of last name, are: Mr CHU Chen-on, Co-founder, October Pictures Limited Dr Herman LAU Mun-cheung, Hospital Chief Executive, Bradbury Hospice, Cheshire Home, Shatin, and Shatin Hospital Sr LAU Ping-cheung, GBS, JP, Managing Director, Biel Asset Management Company Limited and Member, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Council Ir Arthur LEE Kam-hung, Founder and Chairman, Kolinker Group and Member, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Council Mr Alex LUI Chun-wan, a renowned architect and city planner, andMember, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Court Mr Elton NG Chun-ting, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Centre of Rehabilitation & Exercising Specialist Mrs Natalia SENG SZE Ka-mee, Vice Chairman of Tricor HK and Offshore, Member of Tricor China Management Committee, Tricor Group and Tricor Services Limited  Mr Dominic TAM Jo-tak, Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Combine Will International Holdings Limited Mr Marcellus WONG Yui-keung, Vice Chairman, AMTD Group (Please refer to the Appendix for the biodata of the recipients.) Jointly organised by PolyU and the Federation of PolyU Alumni Associations, the biennial Outstanding PolyU Alumni Award aims at honouring outstanding graduates of PolyU and its forerunning institutions – the Government Trade School, the Hong Kong Technical College and the Hong Kong Polytechnic – for their remarkable professional achievements and contributions to the community and their alma mater. The Outstanding PolyU Alumni Award was first launched in 1996 and this year marks the 12th award presentation. So far, more than 70 distinguished alumni in various professions have been honoured and they are fine testimony of PolyU's accomplishments in nurturing professional talents for the community. The seven-member Panel of Judges is chaired by Dr the Hon Victor LO Chung-wing, Chairman of University Court, PolyU. Members, in alphabetical order of last name, include: Dr Hubert CHAN Chung-Yee, Former Deputy President of Outstanding PolyU Alumni Association; Prof Philip C. H. CHAN, Interim President of PolyU; Mr Jimmy KWOK Chun-wah, Chairman of Federation of Hong Kong Industries; Dr Edwin LEONG Siu-hung, Chairman of Tai Hung Fai Charitable Foundation Limited; Dr Eric LI Ka-cheung, President of Hong Kong Family Welfare Society; and Mr Alex WONG Chun-bong, President of Federation of PolyU Alumni Associations.