Creative Director, H55

Hanson Ho

Hanson Ho is a two-time recipient of Singapore’s highest design accolade, the President’s Design Award: having been conferred ‘Designer of the Year’ in 2012 and subsequently winning ‘Design of the Year’ in 2014 for the publication ‘A Guide To The Flora And Fauna Of The World’.

Hanson started H55 shortly after graduating from design school in 1999. Since 2001, his work has received recognition and awards from D&AD Awards, New York Art Directors Club, New York One Show Design, Creative Circle Awards, and Tokyo Type Directors Club.

Besides heading H55, Hanson wears many hats. He is a curator for the Singapore Land Transport Authority’s Art-in-Transit Programme for the MRT Cross Island Line, has judged the D&AD Awards and the Creative Circle Awards, and has been an invited speaker and external examiner for several design institutions. In 2016, Hanson wrote and published ‘Word by Word, We Built Ourselves — 55 Commonly Used Words in the Design Office of H55’. His series of installations for his solo exhibition entitled ‘Shapes 1–15’ at DECK’s gallery space have since been improvised into a 93-meter long artwork and commissioned for Sungei Bedok MRT Station on the Thomson–East Coast Line.