Raffles International Admissions Thailand

Name: Raquel Assis

Qualification: Master of Media and Arts specialization Internet Consumption and culture – University Solent Southampton – UK – 2003

Visual Arts Degree specialized in web design– University of Brasilia – Brazil - 2000

Nationality: Brazilian

Expertise: Multimedia, Computer art, Internet Consumption and Culture

I’ve worked in many different web design and graphic design companies like Editora Abril, major Brazilian publishing company in Sao Paulo - Brazil as web designer of many of their magazines websites: Brazilian Elle, Brazilian Cosmopolitan and others.

ACN Europe in Amsterdam - Holland, market leader in the telecom industry as web and graphic designer

Also worked in many companies as freelancer web and graphic designer in Brazil, Holland and UK.

And I was working as Interactive Media lecturer for 2 years in Raffles Changzhou, now working in Raffles Shanghai.

Li Xu

Title: Lecturer

Nationality: PR China

Qualification: Master of Fine Arts, Animation and VFX, Academy of Art University, San Francisco, USA.

Expertise: 3D Animation, VFX, Graphic Design

Brief Introduction:

More than 7 years work experience in game industry, interior design and multimedia design as 3D game artist, interior designer and multimedia designer. Loving to explore different area of all kinds of art style and media; Sharing ideas with other talent artists and designers brings me so much fun and really expands my horizon of creativity.

Be funny, be cool, be a dude, be……, Anyway, be CREATIVE!

Klaus Hsu

Title: GD Coordinator
Nationality:Canadian

Qualification: Shanghai Light Industrial College

Expertise: Graphic design and advertising design

Brief Introduction:

Klaus graduated from the Shanghai Light Industrial College in 1988. As an established painter, he has exhibited his work in New York City and the city of Toronto. Klaus has wide experience in both design and advertising, having worked as a Creative Director for international companies like Dentsu, CanAsia Advertising, Young and Rubiscam, Scott and Smith, ShinRay New Yorkand Shanghai Electric Advertising. He has worked from USA, Canada to Asia.

Klaus Hsu

Expertise:
Graphic design and advertising design
Brief Introduction:
Klaus graduated from the Shanghai Light Industrial College in 1988. As an established painter, he has exhibited his work in New York City and the city of Toronto. Klaus has wide experience in both design and advertising, having worked as a Creative Director for international companies like Dentsu, CanAsia Advertising, Young and Rubiscam, Scott and Smith, ShinRay New Yorkand Shanghai Electric Advertising. He has worked from USA, Canada to Asia.

Petter Eldin
Title: Lecturer

Expertise: Filmmaker budding poet
Brief Introduction

His gamut of industry experience spans multiple aspects of screen production from editing, producing, right through to directing. Having graduated from Columbia College in Chicago, Petter went on to wander the American heartland shooting reel-world documentaries and connecting with his inner Texan. Petter then spent the next 2 years in Hollywood working on TV Commercials, Music Videos and feature films. Having established himself within the film industry, Petter then went on to Direct and Produce several short films and documentaries, which have garnered attention in Film Festivals and TV stations, the world over. Before joining Raffles Design College, Petter spent the last year honing his craft in London producing promos and trailers for an illustrious list of clients, which include the BBC, Living TV & Emap Television. Petter hopes to share his industry experience and wealth of knowledge with the students of Shanghai.

Daniel Tagbo
Title: Lecturer
Nationality: USA

Qualification:
Bachelor of Fine Arts Postgraduate Art & Design Studies at the School of Visual Arts, New York City & Japan Industrial Design Center, Tokyo Japan

Expertise:
Design & Art exhibitions in New York City, San Franciso, Tokyo Japan

Brief Introduction
He worked as graphic designer & design director for design companies in New York, Seattle, Washington & San Francisco California for clients such as Colgate - Palmolive, Haagen - Dazs, General Foods, Shangri - la Hotel (HK), Bank of Canton (HK) Citibank, Frito - Lay, Maxwell House & Pepperidge Farm.

Tom Lear
Title: Lecturer
Nationality: United States of America

Qualification: B.A. university of Puget sound, associate¡¯s work at antelope valley college, and Maya certification from alias Wavefront

Expertise: 3-d modeling and animation, motion graphics and web site design

Brief Introduction:
Started out in Photoshop 4.0 designing tiles for games. When the games went 3-d, so did Tom. Vanity compelled him to put his art online for all the world to see, which meant he had to design some kind of web site. Tom has a thing for boats (although he doesn¡¯t know how to swim), and needs no prompting at all to show you his 3-d ship projects. Before coming to China, Tom was both teaching and working in Hollywood, creating various models that would then be set a flame, smashed, mutilated and/or destroyed (either digitally or in real life), much to his intense delight.

Jongcheol Yoon
Title:Lecturer
Nationality:
South Korea

Qualification:
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Communication Designs, Parsons School of Design, New York City, USA

Expertise:
Graphic design and advertising Design

Brief Introduction
Jong worked as a creative director and art director at various creative agencies. Clients included: Merdeces-Benz Korea, Samsung, Neutrogena Korea, L¡¯oreal Korea, Bang & Olufsen Korea, Johnson & Johnson Korea, Moet-Hennessy Korea, SK Telecom, Castel Bajac Korea, NCsoft, LG, Seoul National University, BIF Furnitures, etc.

James
Title: Lecturer
Nationality: British
Qualification: Bachelors of Technology in graphic design.

Expertise: Digital Illustration, web and print.

Brief Introduction
After completing my studies in South Africa I worked in industry for 3 years creating printed and web material. I then moved to UK where I specialized in creating visualizations of Jewellery and Objet ''d art for Middle Eastern clients. After working in the UK for 6 years I have moved to Shanghai to share my experience and knowledge with up and coming designers.

Mowfak H.Galy
Title: MM Coordinator
Nationality: USA

Qualification:
BFA in Illustration/Fine Art -1994
Pasadena Art Center College of Design/Los Angeles-California
One year Practice at St.joost Master Degree, in Graphic Design 2006-Breda-The Netherlands

Expertise:
Multimedia/Graphic and Illustration Design

Brief Introduction
Since 1994, I have been practicing design in variety of media; projects have included Educational CD/ROM Titles, Packaging, Flash web- developments, and Online Advertising.
In 2000, I held a Lead Design Director position at Smart Media Online-Los Angles.The Learning Tree University-Los Angles 2002-Lecturer.Raffles Design Institute 2004-Lecturer

Marcus Chin
Title: LecturerNationality: Malaysian
Qualification:
3years Photography Diploma,- M.A in Visual Communication, UNIVERSITY OF CENTRE ENGLAND, BIRMINGHAM, UK.

Expertise:
Photography, Graphic Design

Brief Introduction
- Was assistant underwater photographer.
- Freelancer in UK for 2 years.
- Worked as photographer, photo editor and designer for various
creative studios.
- More than 8 years working experiences in creative industry.
- Clients included: Bonia, 100plus, Canon, Citibank, Anchor, Heineken, etc.

Sara Corvino

Title: Degree Leader

Nationality: Italian

Post Grade Cultural Management: Communication and Production, Ramon Llul University, Barcelona, Spain 2004-2005

BA with Honors (First-Class) in D.A.M.S. (Visual Art, Music and Dramatic Art). University of Bologna, Italy 1988-1994. Recognized as BA with Honor in Visual Communication by Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain 2005.

Expertise: Cultural Communication, Graphic Design, Interactive Design, Flash Animations

Sara background covers a wide range of disciplines from multimedia and graphic design to art installations, performances, theater and macro show organization. She has being Art director and graphic designer of many Webs sites, demo sampler, museum information interactive point and cd-roms.

Sara has worked as a Director of the Multimedia Publication Department at Zeta Multimedia, part of the Zeta Group (Spain). She has been responsible for the localization, development and implementation of more than fifty multimedia projects. She played a key role in the Spanish localization of several CD-ROMs from the world''s most prestigious multimedia organizations, such as BBC, Dorling & Kindersley, Hachette, Kutoka, Discovery Channel, JoWood, Green, Enlight Software.

David Fox

Title: Lecturer

Expertise: Identity Design, Promotion Design, Typography, Photography

Education: University of Houston

Experience:
American Graphic Designer with trained in both traditional and modern production methods. Areas of interest include event promotion and identity, book design and both fine art and journalistic photography. Graduated from the University of Houston in 2002. Worked in design and production for three years before starting a self-owned design studio specializing in non-profit and charity work. He is also trained in traditional and modern photography techniques and has had works exhibited both locally and internationally

Bruno Porto
Title:
Lecturer
Nationality:
Brazilian

Expertise:
Editorial, promotional and corporate graphic design Brief introduction: Working out of his own companies in the cultural, publishing and corporate areas, Bruno''s projects have been exhibited and awarded in South America, as well as featured in Brazilian design magazines and over a dozen international books by Print Magazine, Supon Books and Rockport Publishers, among others.

Brief Introduction
A former director of the Brazilian Graphic Designers Association - ADG Brasil and a member of SIB Brazilian Illustrators Society, he has acted in a number of jury committees and strongly attends and organizes international design congresses, debates, meetings and exhibitions. Author of two books on typography and graphic design and currently working on two others he holds a monthly column at Portal Design Brasil website and often writes articles on design and illustration for a great variety of publications. He''s been teaching graphic design since 1996 and frequently gives lectures and workshops at educational institutions.

Andrew Mark Lawrence
Title: Program Director
Nationality: British
Qualification: Royal College of Art, London
Expertise: Graphic Design

Brief Introduction
English Graphic Designer with 16 years experience in Visual Communication working in London and Berlin.
Areas of interest and expertise are Typography, Information Design, Corporate Identity, Literature Design and Design Education. Graduated from Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication in 1989.

Masters degree from the Royal College of Art, London, 1991.
Andrew has worked for Imagination in London for clients such as Ford Motor Company and British Telecom and has taught design at Degree level at several Colleges in and around London. He was Acting Course Leader at Ravensbourne in 1997.

Partner in Grotesk design partnership in London and Creative Director of Staendige Vertretung Design und Kommunikation gmbh in Berlin for 5 years with clients such as the Berlin Airport Authority and Bank for International Settlements. Worked briefly for Nokia Design Group and on several free-lance projects before coming to Shanghai in 2006.