Founder & Creative Director, H55
Hanson Ho is the recent recipient of Singapore’s highest design accolade, the President’s Design Award 2012 ‘Designer of the Year’.
As founder and creative director of Singapore based design studio H55 which he founded in 1999, Hanson has created numerous visual identities, brand applications, and publications which have represented Singapore on an international level. These include the visual identity designs for the Singapore Pavilion at various Venice Biennales and the Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize.
Featured by the Sunday Times as one of the top Graphic Designers in Singapore, Hanson has received recognition and awards from some of the most prestigious international design competitions for his works, including the British D&AD, New York Type Directors Club, New York One Show Design, Creative Circle Awards, Tokyo Type Directors Club, and the New York Art Directors Club.
Hanson’s work has been featured in numerous international design publications, including Peter and Charlotte Fiell’s recently published ‘New Graphic Design: The 100 Best Contemporary Graphic Designers’, Tashen’s ‘Asian Graphics NOW!’ and Viction:ary’s ‘Point East: Exploring Talents in Asia’.
Besides heading H55, Hanson plays the role of curator for the Singapore Land Transport Authority’s (LTA) Art-in-Transit Programme for nine of the upcoming MRT Downtown Line Stations. Hanson has been an invited speaker and an external examiner for several design institutions, and is the managing editor and creative director for The Design Society Journal.
