Friday, July 27, 2012

A Champion of Singapore’s Design Community

Feng_Zhu

Feng Zhu has worked on some of the greatest films and games ever produced – Star Wars, and Command and Conquer – and created some of the world’s best-loved characters in Transformers and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

He has taught in two world-renowned design schools – Art Center College of Design and Gnomon – and is ranked among the likes of Chris Bangle, ex-Chief of Design for BMW, and Stefano Marzano, Chief Creative Director of Philips.

Given his prolific portfolio and extraordinary talent, he could choose to concentrate on developing more blockbuster productions.

Yet he chose to set up a design school - not for practicing professionals, but for early learners. Not in a city with a long art history, but in Singapore with a fledging production industry.

Thursday, July 12, 2012

Carving a Niche as an Entrepreneur

Mr Leslie_001Leslie has always had the knack of sniffing out new business opportunities.

From being a business manager in a hard disc company, he is now the boss of Royal Bussan Singapore Pte Ltd, a medical device company. He actively looks for medical projects and brings in medical equipment that will benefit the medical community in Singapore.

What made him switch industries? What brought about this leap in his career?