ALAN RUDGE
A Senior Lecturer in Computer Animation for the Diploma in Moving Images & Interactive Media Design with TDS. His specialties are 3D Animation, Web Programming and Animation, Digital Media and Film Design history.
Previously at Singapore Polytechnic, he developed and ran the Advanced Diploma in Computer Animation and Visualisation, the Certificate in Computer Animation, and a virtual (distance learning) course in computer animation.
Before moving to Singapore, Alan was Senior Lecturer in Computer Animation with Bournemouth University (UK), playing a significant part in the development of the National Centre for Computer Animation. He co-developed The Cupboard, an animation production facility which produced a number of commercial animation works, mainly for arcade simulator rides (http://.ncca.bournemouth.ac.uk/), Prior to that he worked in the computer games industry on a collaborative project with British Telecom. Alan was also a Computer Graphics Consultant for London New Technology Network, Greater London Council.
CHRIS WEBSTER
Chris Webster has been an animator for over 20 years working in Classical
2D Animation. He has worked on a number of highly prestigious projects including the classic SuperTed TV series, Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood and was the animation consultant on the award winning Walking with Dinosaurs. He has written and illustrated a number of children’s books and more recently produced a highly regarded text on animation; Animation; the Mechanics of Motion. He has worked with the Royal Academy of Music on a number of collaborative projects and recently completed work for a ‘live’ animation performance for the Aurora orchestra producing performed in London and Cambridge. He is a fisherman.
TAN KHEE HUAT
Khee Huat studied Industrial design at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and worked in exhibition design prior to joining Temasek Polytechnic in 1990. He has been involved in graduating cohorts of Product Design students for the last 16 years. Khee Huat has also been conducting teacher training programs in the area of Design and Technology. His area of study interest include watch design and traditional cutting implements.
TOD BURTON
A graduate of the masters programme at the Domus Academy, Milan Italy Tod was a founding director of Argo Design Workshop. A Sydney based product design consultancy Argo specialized in point of sale, retail and exhibition design, its client roster included Mambo, Coca-Cola, IBM and Billabong surf ware.
In 2003 Tod joined the University of the West of England, Bristol to lead the team that developed the universities award winning product design programmes. Designed to reflect the changing nature of the design industry in the UK, these programmes have a heavy emphasis on the ‘front end’ of the design process, drawing on current notions of ‘design thinking’.
Currently Progamme Director for Product Design and Engineering programmes at UWE, Tod is currently involved in integrating studio practices into an engineering context.
PATRICIA TAN
Patricia has more than 15 years of experience working in graphic design and now enjoys her second career transferring her knowledge to and nurturing young minds.
Educated at Baharuddin Vocational Institute, regarded by the industry as the pioneer forming ground for local graphic design students, Patricia graduated to spend many enriching and successful years in prominent local design consultancies like Addison Design and Immortal Design. Patricia’s portfolio covers a wide spectrum of design disciplines that include print collaterals, corporate literature, identity design and packaging.
Describing herself a ‘right brainer’ with an equal dose of ‘left brain’ logic, Patricia sees how important that critical and analytical thinking integrate with creativity to produce sound and innovative design solutions. Her hope is that her students will step more and more onto this platform in a design world that is more competitive and globalize.
To appease her cerebral side, Patricia pursued studies in Communications with Monash University. Her gain from this studies is the wonderful amalgamation of the what and why of communication theories with the how to of visual communication.
An area of interest which she hopes will find its way more and more into local design is a greater exposure to and awareness of the rich cultural and aesthetic heritage of the Southeast Asian region, and how designers can explore and exploit this to make our brand of graphic design distinctive.
ROBERT KETTEL
Robert Kettell studied graphic design at Norwich School of Art (BA Hons) and the Royal College of Art (MA RCA). He has worked subsequently as a free-lance designer and illustrator in association with major national and international design groups, advertising agencies and publishing houses on projects including publishing, advertising and promotion, corporate identity and packaging. Clients include: Oxford University Press, Dorling Kindersley, BBC, Sunday Times Magazine, Folio Society, Channel 4 Television, The National Trust, Nescafe, English Tourist Board, Campbell’s Soups, Cloverleaf Ceramics.
He has taught since the late 1980’s including course leadership at BA and MA level and held management roles across many design disciplines including international collaborations. He has been a consultant and External Examiner at a number of centres including Manchester Metropolitan University, Surrey Institute of Arts and Design, Sheffield Hallam University, Nottingham Trent University and Utrecht School of Art and Design in the Netherlands. He works in a range of traditional and digital media.
Whilst commercial design and typography are extensively computer based, his work is also based on drawing, painting and printmaking to explore the more tactile dialogue between the hand made and machines generated and the relationship of words and images.
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Temasek Polytechnic, 21 Tampines Avenue 1, Singapore 529757
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