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Brian Kwok
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Brian Kwok

Associate Professor

Leader of Information Design Lab, Programme Leader of BA Communication Design

  • V512a
  • brian.k@polyu.edu.hk
  • Expertise: Communication design, visual culture, information design, healthcare communication

Biography

Brian Kwok is Associate Professor at the School of Design of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). He has more than a decade of teaching experience in design-related subjects, which includes ten years of post-qualification university teaching experience at PolyU. He is Programme Leader of Communication Design and a Lab Leader of the Information Design Lab of PolyU. Brian received his formal education in Visual Communication Design in US and obtained MA in Design from the PolyU, MA in Visual Culture Studies and MPhil in Communication from the Chinese University of Hong Kong respectively. 

In 2011, Brian co-founded the Information Design Lab, which aims at conducting academic research as well as practical consulting projects of information design practice. The Lab is currently focusing its works on various projects such as the research of effective medicine label design, wayfinding and spatial representation in Hong Kong, and visual culture of neon signs. 

Education and Academic Qualifications

  • Master of Philosophy, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Research Outputs

Kwok, B. S. H. (2025). Signboards and Visual Culture in Tokyo: A Street Ethnologist’s Perspective《街道觀察員2——東京招牌與視覺文化》 ( in Chinese). Hong Kong: Joint Publishing Limited.
Kwok, B. S. H. (2024). Neon Hues: The Visual Documentation of Restaurant Neon Artworks《霓虹艷色: 餐飲招牌手稿視覺記錄》 ( English and Chinese). Hong Kong: Joint Publishing Limited. ISBN: 9789620454653.
Kwok, B. S. H. (2023), City of Scripts 2 – Hong Kong Type Designers《香港造字匠 2──香港字體設計師》(in Chinese)., Hong Kong: Joint Publishing. ISBN: 9789620452949.
Kwok, B. S. H. (2023). Fading Neon Lights: An Archive of Hong Kong’s Visual Culture. Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong Press. ISBN: 9789629375928.
Kwok, B. S. H. (2021). Vernacular Design: a History of Hong Kong Neon Signs, Journal of Design History, epab017. https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/epab017.

For more research outputs, please refer to PolyU Scholar Hub.

 

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