Chun-wo Pat is Assistant Professor in the Department of Fine and Performing Arts, Baruch College, CUNY. He was a professor teaching Information Design and Typography within Parsons The New School for Design, New York, and assistant lecturer in City
...MoreChun-wo Pat is Assistant Professor in the Department of Fine and Performing Arts, Baruch College, CUNY. He was a professor teaching Information Design and Typography within Parsons The New School for Design, New York, and assistant lecturer in CityTech, CUNY and has lectured widely.
Pat has been actively involved with the international design communities as curator/exhibition designer for DMY/Berlin, Germany, Danish Design Center, Copenhagen, Denmark, as well as visiting lecturer/professor in Xue Xue Institute and YunTech, Taiwan and Hong Kong Design Centre, Hong Kong.
Pat is the principal and owner of Whitespace Integrated Design, formed in 1996. His creative services intersect cultural institutions, community-based organizations and business corporations. Formerly, Pat served as the first Executive Director in Hong Kong Ambassadors of Design. He worked at de Harak & Poulin Associates and the Pushpin Group as senior designer prior to his own practice.
Living in the context of increasing flow of cultural interactions around the world, Pat has researched, and developed theories, on an ideographic-based principle in typography and information design as a tool for both teaching and professional practice—a East-West synthesis to transcend linguistic barriers in global communications. His work has earned him national as well as international recognitions in the area of cross-cultural design.
Pat’s vision of design is diffused in various publications. Among them were Ming Pao Monthly (Hong Kong), Typefaces, Print magazine, ID magazine, East magazine (Hong Kong). He was also involved with architectural and monument design projects to engage the public with the force of written words. Such projects include the bilingual stele for Nelson Ying family graveyard, Albany; the trilingual memorial marker for the Holocaust hero Ho Feng Shan in Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum, China; and the multilingual banner system for Charles B. Wang Center, SUNY Stonybrook.
Chun-wo Pat, holds an MFA from Yale University, and a BFA from the Cooper Union. He has been actively engaged as an instructor, professor and lecturer for over twenty years.
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