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A Forum on Creative Entrepreneurship |
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Challenges and Opportunities in Connecting Creativity and Business |
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Breaking into new markets - in the UK, China or elsewhere - takes more than a creative mind and a brilliant idea to succeed.
Our speakers from diverse nationalities and backgrounds will share with you their success stories and hard-earned lessons from the trenches.
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8 August 2009 (Saturday) |
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11.00 a.m. to 1.00 p.m. |
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Atrium, InnoCentre, 72 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon Tong |
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The British Council is now organising a forum on creative entrepreneurship where young creative entrepreneurs from the UK and Asia, including some finalists of the British Council's Young Design Entrepreneur awards, will share their success stories and dialogue with local professionals. A panel discussion and Q&A session will follow the presentations from overseas speakers. Practitioners in the creative industries, business professionals who aspire to join the creative sectors and tertiary students in related disciplines are welcome.
Creative Entrepreneurs are people who provide the link between creative talents and the market (creative consumers). Our speakers will discuss the challenges and opportunities in connecting creativity and business to inspire Hong Kong's creative industries. We hope to create a shared understanding about the contribution creativity, entrepreneurship and innovation can make to the long-term prosperity of a city.
Speakers / Panellists:
- Vicky Brophy (animation, UK)
- Anna Hart (product design, UK)
- Ruttikorn Vuttikorn (toy design, Thailand)
- Ming Xu (interior and furniture design, China)
- Roland Yu (multimedia, interactive and motion graphics design, Hong Kong)
Facilitator:
- Alvin Yip (School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Please click the links below for their bios.
The event is organised in association with the Hong Kong Design Centre and the Center for Entrepreneurship of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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Head of Digital, Wonky Films
Vicky Brophy is the head of digital at Wonky Films, a collective of animators across broadcast (BBC roster), advertising and digital. Wonky Films are recognised for their innovative digital approach in developing new animated entertainment formats. Vicky has run digital events at international film festivals, presented animation work across Europe and written or contributed to articles on digital creativity. She was also a ‘young technology entrepreneur’ in the ‘Building Britain’s Future’ events. Vicky co-organised popular animation nights that showcase animation work to the South West, and tries to grow all these networks internationally.
Company website: www.wonkyfilms.co.uk
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Director, MARK Product Ltd
A finalist in British Council's UK Young Design Entrepreneur, 2008
Anna graduated from Leeds Metropolitan University in 1999. After graduating she joined Coexistence developing her knowledge of the furniture market before moving to an interior design role for DEGW, London. Anna worked in lead design roles on a variety of workplace interior projects. She moved to Cornwall in 2004 and joined local practise, Absolute Design, where she headed up the interiors team. She finished some high profile projects such as Jamie Oliver’s Fifteen, Cornwall and The Hotel at Watergate Bay. Anna now runs her own interior design studio whilst working in partnership with John Miller (Director of Design at University College Falmouth) in developing a new furniture brand that is MARK Product.
Company Website:www.markproduct.com
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Design Director, Club Creative
A British Council International Young Design Entrepreneur 2007 finalist
Ruttikorn Vuttikorn is a fanatic toy designer and a founder of two companies. One is Club Creative, which designs a wide range of toys and children’s products. Another company, Le Knot, designs, produces and sells toys under the Toy Wizard and Paper Wizard brands. Besides running the two companies, Ruttikorn has been working for charity organisations around the world to design toys for children with special needs and promoting quality play. The number of renowned toy design awards she has won indicates her expertise..Moreover, the Museum of Childhood’s permanent collection at the V&A Museum, London chose one of her designs for display.
Company website: www.club-creative.com
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Co-Founder, Design MVW
A British Councils International Young Design Entrepreneur 2007 finalist
Xu Ming graduated from Penninghen Graphic Arts and Interior Architecture High School, Paris, France. He founded Design MVW with his partner, Virginie Moriette, in 2006, with a focus on interior and furniture design. Design MVW was awarded ‘Young Talent of the Year’ in 2008 and ‘Best Furniture Design’ in 2006 by Elle Decoration International Design Award. Works by Design MVW have been exhibited in Milan at Superstudio in 2009, in Amsterdam for Experimenta Design in 2008, and in London at the V&A Museum for ‘China Design Now’ in 2008.
Company website: www.design-mvw.com
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Business Director, yU+co [lab]
Roland Yu is the Business Director of yU+co [lab]. Roland joined yU+co, started by his brother Garson Yu in Hollywood. Roland then brought the company's business to Hong Kong and China, forming yU+co [lab] with N.T. Lab in 2006. While the company in the US continues to excel in motion graphics for film, television and games, for example title design work for Brokeback Mountain, 300, Memoirs of a Geisha, etc., its Asian arm has been expanding its business in multimedia interactive design and motion graphics for major corporations in Hong Kong, Mainland China and other Asian countries.
Company website: www.yucolab.com
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Alvin graduated from the Architectural Association, practiced in the UK and Hong Kong, and was later awarded a Rome Scholarship in 2004. He is now teaching and researching at Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
As an independent curator, Alvin curated the Hong Kong debut at the Venice Architectural Biennale and has exhibited in Rome, London, Barcelona, Helsinki, Istanbul and Hong Kong. As a designer, Alvin has previously built in Toronto, Manchester, Hong Kong and Laos.
Dedicated to the community, Alvin serves as Chairman of Friends of Architecture for Hong Kong Architecture Centre, Vice-commissioner for Hong Kong in the Venice Biennale, and Co-chairman of the Hong Kong-Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale. Alvin is a board member of Ambassadors of Design.
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