Founder, Hans Tan Studio, Dean's Chair, Associate Professor, Division of Industrial Design, National University of Singapore

Hans Tan

Hans is a designer maker, curator, and Dean’s Chair Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore. At his eponymous studio, he makes use of beauty and utility as a pretext for visual discourse, tiptoeing on the boundaries between design, craft and art. His works are held in private and corporate collections, as well as permanent collections of leading museums such as M+ in Hong Kong, the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York, and the Princessehof National Museum of Ceramics in the Netherlands.

As a three-time winner of Design of the Year at the President’s Design Award, Hans was honoured with the Designer of the Year at the President’s Design Award 2018, Singapore’s highest recognition for a designer, for the impact of his body of work and his contributions to the design community through education. As an educator Hans has received multiple teaching awards, most significantly the Outstanding Educator Award, the university’s highest award for teaching.