Hong Kong Young Design Talent Awards 2009
DesignSmart Young Design Talent Award
Kingsley Ng
A diversified background in the arts has served as the foundations to Kingsley Ng’s progressive leap forward in design. Ng is a fine arts graduate of Ryerson Polytechnic University in Toronto. His educational experience comprises applied studies in new media, architecture and the contemporary arts. Thoroughly multidisciplinary, Ng has practised professionally using interactive sound and graphics, interior, branding graphic and packaging design. In recent years, through his enlistment into Jack Morton Worldwide, Ng has honed his many skills to focus on the pioneering development of experiential design.
Space imbued with ambience created by light, sound, colour, texture, wind, water – well anything really – defines the work. As abstract as this may seem, experiential design can essentially be defined as the act of designing narratives within any given 3-dimensional space. With Jack Morton Worldwide, Ng has been able to invent messages within space for a number of clients across the globe. Refreshing approaches include creating an interactive lightshow that is electronically triggered by candle-lit paper boats drifting above a pool of water. Designed within the Fabrica Research Centre, the experiential design, which included a play of ambient sound, functioned as homage to Tadao Ando. Other notable works by Ng in the yet-to-be established field include a Musical Wheel in Hong Kong and a Musical Loom in France. The Musical Wheel is a large, six metre rotational wheel. While seated inside, participants rotate slowly in tandem with the wheel, which creates ambient sounds from all sides.
Ng admits that experiential design is still a largely unknown entity, and asserts the need for further development. To this end, he hopes to further himself with applied research and eventual practise of the discipline.
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