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Lecturer at Temasek Polytechnic
Colin Cheong
Singapore, Singapore
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About
I believe that Design can incite, inspire and instigate innovation. In today's landscape, Design thinking is vital and of utmost importance because Design thinking at its heart lies empathy and understanding of "the other".
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Education
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MFA Collaborative DesignPacific Northwest College of Art2014 - 2016
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Bachelor of Arts (BA Hons) Theatre/Theater, EnglishNational University of Singapore1999 - 2003
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Experience
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Lecturer / Contextual Studies, School of DesignTemasek PolytechnicOct 2007 - Present (18 years 8 months)Curriculum and course development, delivery, administration and evaluation of modules that fall under 2 main categories: Communication Strategies and Marketing Studies.
Subject leader for modules Professional Communication for Design and Marketing in Design.
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LecturerMFA-IAI (Ministry of Foreign Affairs English Programmme)Aug 2013 - Aug 2013‘Basic English Language and Communications Skills’ course for government officials in Cambodia and Myanmar.
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DirectorInstant Karma pte ltdAug 2003 - Jan 2008 (4 years 5 months)Founded Instant Karma, a fashion boutique retailing locally designed apparel. Transformed it from a start up to a well-known label.
Instant Karma’s apparel appeared regularly in publications such as “8-days”, “Elle”, “Cleo”, “Lime”, “Catalog”, “Indigo”, Mediacorp television shows as well as in music videos for local bands “Electrico” and “Unxpected”.
Publications such as “Elle”, “Seventeen”, “World of Watches” and “Indigo” have featured Instant Karma as “young designers cum entrepreneurs to watch out for”.
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Elsewhere on the Web
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On Coroflot@ColinCheong, member since 2010