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Faculty
Academic excellence at LASALLE is shaped by an outstanding and diverse community of educators and mentors. Meet the minds behind the learning—artists, designers, educators and researchers from around the world who bring vision, rigour and heart to every programme.
SENIOR FELLOW
Professor Steve Dixon
Professor Steve Dixon - LASALLE College of the Arts
Senior Fellow
Professor Milenko Prvački
Milenko Prvacki
Senior Fellow
Lord David Puttnam

Deans

Dean, Faculty of Fine Arts, Media & Creative Industries
Professor Adam Knee
Dean, Faculty of Performing Arts
Professor Leon Rubin
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Dean, Faculty of Design
Associate Professor Nur Hidayah Bte Abu Bakar
Nur Hidayah Bte Abu Bakar LASALLE College of the Arts
Dean, Learning, Teaching & Research
Associate Professor Wolfgang Muench
Dr Wolfgang Muench

Heads of Schools

Head, School of Spatial & Product Design
Ang Xinwei
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Head, Puttnam School of Film & Animation
Chris Shaw
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Head, School of Fashion
Associate Professor Circe Henestrosa
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Head, McNally School of Fine Arts
Associate Professor Cissie Fu
Cissie Fu
Head, School of Creative Industries
Associate Professor Jonathan Gander
Dr Jonathan Gander
Head, School of Dance & Theatre
Melissa Quek
MELISSA QUEK
Head, School of Contemporary Music
Associate Professor Timothy O’Dwyer
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Nathan Yong | Academic Leadership & Faculty at LASALLE Singapore
Programme Leader, BA (Hons) Product Design

Nathan Yong

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  • Master in Design, University of New South Wales, Australia

Nathan graduated from Temasek Polytechnic with a Diploma in Industrial Design in 1991. He began his career not as a designer, but as a buyer engaging in product development for various companies in Singapore. Through these jobs, he travelled to various countries including India, Vietnam, Thailand and Indonesia to source for quality manufacturers and craftsmen to develop and manufacture furniture and home accessories. Through this exposure, he learnt various production techniques and crafts.

Nathan has received prestigious awards including the Red Dot Award: Design Concept for two consecutive years in 2006 and 2007 as well as the President’s Design Award Singapore, Designer of the Year in 2008 — the highest honour accorded to designers from all creative disciplines in Singapore.

Inspired by observations of the visual environment, his works provoke existential questions about the objects. Instead of superfluous details, he captures the poetry of products through a stripping process and lends object qualities that are informed by a lightness of restraints.

In the 2011 international king-size supplement, INTERNI for Salone del Mobile, Nathan was selected as the most promising Young Designer on the international scene.

Currently based in Singapore, Nathan runs an industrial design consultancy practice. His work has been exhibited and also featured in international magazines like Wallpaper, Monocle, Surface, Dwell, On Office, Habitus etc. His clients include Design Within Reach (US), Ligne Roset (France), Living Divani (Italy), Opinion Ciatti (Italy), Sphaus (Italy), Domicil (Germany), Ethnicraft (Belgium), Grafunkt (Singapore), FOLKS furniture (Singapore) and many others.

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