Members of the Judging Panel including:
- Alan Siu
Acting Head, Create Hong Kong
Chairman of Judging Panel
- Raymond Chan
Group Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Oregon Scientific Global Distribution Ltd
- Amy Chow
Design Director and Education Consultant, Hong Kong Design Centre
- Alex Fung
Vice Principal, Hong Kong Design Institute
- Siu-kee Ho
Associate Professor, Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University
- Benjamin Lau
Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer, G.O.D. Ltd
- Grace Lau
Academic Coordinator for Design, School of Continuing and Professional Education (SCOPE), City University of Hong Kong
- Peter Lau
Fashion Designer, Peter Lau International Ltd
- Lee Chi-wing
Director, Milk Design Ltd
- Horace Pan
Assistant Professor, School of Design, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- Cécile Tu
Founder and Designer, Cécile Tu Contemporary Jewellery
Alan Siu
 Mr Siu joined the Hong Kong government in 1982 after graduateing from the University of Hong Kong.
He was appointed Deputy Secretary of the Commerce and Economic Development Bureau in July 2007. Before taking up this post he was the Deputy Director, Celebrations Coordination office. His other previous postings were with the Leisure and Cultural Services Department the Commerce, Industry and Technology Bureau and the Finance Branch.
Amy Chow
 Amy Yuen-mei Chow graduated from Academy of Art College in San Francisco with a Bachelor degree (BFA), major in Sculptural Design and Master’s degree (MFA), major in Graphic Design. Over the following 5 years, she had worked in various international design firms as typographer and art director.
Her passion in teaching art and design started in 1996 and never stopped ever since. Apart from teaching in various academic institutions, Amy was the coordinator of the design-related diplomas, higher diplomas and top-up-degree programmes in HKU SPACE, The Art School Hong Kong Arts Centre and PolyU SPEED respectively. Enjoying teaching as well as traveling, Amy has designed and led more than twelve study tours spanning over 6 time zones in the past eight years.
In 2005, Amy moved to a new venture of her career by joining The Hong Kong Design Centre. She is currently the design director and educational consultant of HKDC and has planned many design workshops, seminars, overseas master classes and exhibitions for design students and professional practitioners.
Raymond Chan
 Dr. Raymond Chan, JP, is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of IDT International Ltd. and Oregon Scientific Global Distribution Ltd. Dr. Chan founded IDT in 1977. IDT specializes in the design, development and manufacturing of innovative, high quality life-style consumer electronic products. It markets and sells its products through its distribution and retail network around the world under its own brand “Oregon Scientific”. Before establishing IDT business, Dr. Chan was an electronic engineer, working for multi-national semi-conductor companies in the US and Hong Kong. Dr. Chan was being conferred with the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Business Administration by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in November 2003. Dr. Chan is being appointed as a Justice of the Peace and a member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference Guangzhou Committee. He is also a Court Member of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, a member of the Advisory Committee on School of Design of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, the Honorary President of The Toys Manufacturers’ Association of Hong Kong and Life Patron of The Professional Validation Council of Hong Kong Industries.
Alex Fung
 Alex Fung is currently Vice Principal of Hong Kong Design Institute. Previously holding posts of Associate Head and Associate Professor of School of Design, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Since joining the School in 1985, he teaches in design thinking; visual communication design; packaging and branding design, and advertising design within the BA (Hons) in Design programme. He has a special research interest in the development and application of creative and strategy thinking methodologies in design and other related disciplines. He also research, and published, in the design education development in Hong Kong and China. He is appointed as a Subject Specialist in Design by the Hong Kong Council for Academic Accreditation for many years and has taken part in the validation of many design programmes. He is Honorary Professor of Shanghai Jiaotong University since 2001, and has recently appointed as Visiting Professor of the Macau Polytechnic Institute.
Siu-kee Ho
 HO, Siu-kee received a Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) from The Chinese University of Hong Kong; a Master of Fine Art, Cranbrook Academy of Art, U.S.A.; and a Doctorate of Fine Art from RMIT University, Australia. Ho is also a recipient of various awards and fellowships including: Hong Kong Urban Council Fine Art Awards and Civitella Ranieri Fellowship (Italy). HO’s work had been exhibited widely in prestigious international exhibitions including Inside Out: New Chinese Art Exhibition and the 23rd International Biennial of Sao Paulo and the 49th Venice Biennial as Hong Kong Official Representative.
Benjamin Lau
 Benjamin Lau is Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of the G.O.D. Lifestyle Brand. G.O.D. currently has 5 stores throughout Hong Kong ranging in size of 5000sqft to 20,000sqft. Over the years, G.O.D. has become synonymous with Hong Kong design and culture.
Born and raised in Sydney, Australia, Lau graduated from Sydney Grammar School and was trained in Architecture at the University of New South Wales.
Lau began his Architectural career in Hong Kong working on hotel and resort development projects in Vietnam for the firm Charles Ming and Associates Ltd.
During his earlier years in Hong Kong, Lau gained much exposure to Chinese culture and antiques through his work with Hong Kong Antiques Dealer, Alan Fung of Ian Maclean Antiques.
Lau’s other interests include Contemporary Chinese art, Contemporary dance, snowboarding, skiing, wakeboarding and yoga.
Grace Lau
 Grace Lau is the Academic Coordinator of Design at School of Continuing and Professional Education, City University of Hong Kong. Grace heads three different programmes - the Associate of Arts in Digital Visual Design (AADVD), as well as the Bachelor of Design (Communication Design) and the Bachelor of Design (Multimedia Design) – two programmes jointly delivered by City University of Hong Kong and the Swinburne University of Technology, Faculty of Design.
Graduated from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, School of Design in the late 80’s; Grace has worked in the field of advertising and marketing since then. She was Associate Creative Director, Ogilvy & Mather Direct; Creative Director, Thompson Connect of JWT; Creative Director, Rapp Collins Worldwide (HK); and Art Director, Leo Burnett. And after completing an MBA in York University, Ontario, Grace returned to Hong Kong in the late 90’s, and started her career in Credit Card banking with International Bank of Asia (IBA), which she has successfully launched the Loyalty Programme, as well as developed the first-ever Dual Card programme for IBA Visa and Master Card in 1997. Grace’s work has been awarded for creativity as well as business results by local and international bodies; and her experience covered above, below and across the line with traditional and digital communication media.
Grace is the Honorary Secretary of Hong Kong Designers Association (HKDA), Chairman of the School of Design Alumni Association (SDAA), and is also an elected member of the Hong Kong Public Affairs Forum. Grace is also founder of ‘whocares’ – a humanitarian design group contributing to social service by design. The groups work closely with Friends of the Earth and their current projects include re-branding for Chi Heng Foundation and Society for the Protection of Children.
Peter Lau
 Lau was born in Hong Kong. He began his career in the fashion/garment industry after graduation from college, and at the same time studied in the Hong Kong Polytechnic for a four-year course of ‘Textile Technology’. He started fashion design in 1979. In 1990, he launched his designer shop ‘XCVIII Ninety Eight’ together with a label under the same name.
Peter Lau visited Beijing in 1992 for the first time, which brought tremendous influence to his works. Being deeply impressed by his compatriot, he began designing fashion collections fully inspired by his motherland. In the 1995 Spring/Summer Collection, Lau fused modernity and Chinese elements in an attempt to create a completely new look. The new look blossomed almost instantly and paved ways to introduce more oriental elements into modern fashion. Lau’s collection and influence not only have strong presence in the fashion world, but also termed ‘Oriental Modernism’ by international journalists. The collection was brought into Japan by the prominent cosmetic / fashion group ‘Kanebo’.
In 1996, Lau introduced a young line named ‘China Doll’. The PRC flag was made into garments and put into his 1996 Autumn/Winter Collection, which was considered most controversial by the public and the press. In the same year, Peter Lau was selected as one of the ‘World’s Twenty-one Most Representative Fashion Designers in the 21st Century’ by the most authoritative Japanese fashion magazine ‘Ryuko Tsushin’.
Part of Peter Lau’s 1997 Autumn/Winter Collection is permanently exhibited in the ‘Powerhouse Museum’ in Sydney, Australia. More of Lau’s works could be seen in the Hong Kong Heritage Cultural Museum.
Lee Chi-wing
 Born in Hong Kong. He received a BA in Industrial Design from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. After obtaining his MA from the Les Ateliers in 1992, he remained in Paris working for several design consultants. He returned to Hong Kong in 1994 and joined Philips Design in 1995. In 1998, he set up Milk design, his own “novel design” company offering local and international clients industrial design and product development services. Under the view that design is simple and human, design is an important tool to provide various possibilities and experience to our daily life, two home accessory brand names namely Zense and Feel Good were established. Zense started in 1999, Feel Good was created in 2002.
Maurice Lee
 Currently the principal of Maurice W M Lee Solicitors, Mr Lee is a practicing lawyer in Hong Kong; a registered lawyer in the United Kingdom, Australia and Singapore; a Foreign Law Consultant of Hawaii; Civil Celebrant of Marriages; Arbitrator and Mediator in Hong Kong and China; Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission Licensed Investment Advisor as well as a china-appointed Attesting Officer in Hong Kong. He is the Vice Chairman of Hong Kong Arts Development Council, also a member of Election Committee for Deputies to the National People’s Congress of the People’s Republic of China, a board member of the Social Workers Registration Board, the funding Committee for the Performing Arts of Hong Kong and Town Planning Board. Mr Lee also serves as the legal advisor of organisations related to creative industries, and is now the Secretary General of Hong Kong Televisioners Association and Director of Hong Kong Design Centre.
Horace Pan
 Mr. Horace Pan obtained his MA & BA (Hons) in Interior Design from School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. After graduation, Pan has been working with renowned interior / architectural consultancy firms and participated in various scales of award-winning commercial developments in Asia Pacific regions. In 2003, he established his own Hong Kong-based interior & branding design practice PANORAMA International Ltd. Major clients include China Resources Retail (Corp) Ltd., Red Earth, California Red Ltd., Mission Hills Golf Club and HK Ocean Park.
As the recipient of a number of recognitions and awards in the territory over the years including Asia Pacific Interior Design Awards, Hong Kong Designers Association Awards and Perspective Design Recognition Awards, Pan further his professional career in the field of design education and is now the assistant professor at School of Design, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and serving as the vice-chairman of the Hong Kong Interior Design Association and the alternate director of Hong Kong Design Centre.
Cécile Tu
 Cécile TU Ching-na, founder and jewellery designer of cécile tu contemporary jewellery, takes a contemporary approach in design jewellery, they well-illustrates her inspirations in life experience through the fascinating and adventurous forms of jewellery. Her jewellery is redefined for the present-day world, with contemporary design concepts, any materials are used according to expression of ideas, with new technology applied in jewellery making, jewellery design is considered to go with body form and body as means of expression. As she says, “painting is for the wall, sculpture is for space, jewellery is for the body.” and “form follows expression”. Cécile TU does not just create versatile fashion accessories; they are collectable and wearable mini art objects.
Born and bred in Hong Kong, Cécile TU completed her ‘Jewellery Design’ Degree Course at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design in London. She was awarded the Sir Edward Youde Memorial Fund Oversea Fellowship for her Master of Arts in ‘Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, Metalwork and Jewellery’ at the Royal College of Art in London in the mid 1990s.
She has won numerous international awards with her uncompromising devotion in jewellery design. Besides, her talent has also been recognised by notable fashion brands such as Alfred Dunhill. Moreover, her awarded medal design is on sale at the Great British Museum. In 2007, Cécile TU was one of the 37 artists from all over the world invited by the Centro Promozioni e Servizi – Arezzo of Italy, to design a one-off piece of jewel for the project of “Oro d’Autore. Tribute to Piero”, a display of masters’ jewels inspired to the world of Piero della Francesca, this project is part of the event of, “Nobiltà di Piero. Piero della Francesca and the Italian courts”, an exhibition of international appeal from March 31st to July 22nd 2007 in Tuscany. The jewellery becomes part of the larger “Orodautore” collection in the Museum of Aezzo.
In June she was selected as one of the top 40 Outstanding Young Designers in Greater China by the Perspective magazine. Also, in December, her eternity wedding ring design was awarded one of the Finalist of “Design for Asia Award 2007”, organized by Hong Kong Design Centre.
Cécile has established her own jewellery design shop in Hong Kong for the sixth year, since 2005, she moved her upstairs shop in SOHO to G/F, 15 Aberdeen Street, NOHO Central, Hong Kong.
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