BIOGRAPHY
Bryant Chan was born in Hong Kong in 1985 and graduated from the Faculty of Art & Design in Product Design at Birmingham City University in the UK with First-Class Honours. He also awarded with Emma Jessie Phipps Award which is given to the most outstanding student of the year.
He is an award-winning product designer working in the UK and Hong Kong, and in 2017 he founded Minus Design in Hong Kong. It places him in the center of manufacturing and has given him direct access to the Asia factories that build his creative concepts. Bryant pulls influences from all these experiences, melding east and west. He excels at understanding user needs and translating that into successful products. His work ranges from function driven, innovative technology to cost sensitive, aesthetically pleasing products for the contemporary home.
Art, design and manufacturing merge holistically in the creative eyes of Bryant. He has boldly refused to adhere to traditional modernist design constraints and has, through his unique eye, created a new visual language.
He works as an industrial/product designer. He has worked with companies such as 3M, Scotch-Brite, MAPA, Spontex, MARNA, Luster, ATV, royal vkb, Swash, PYREX, Chevron, Oregon Scientific, PHILIPS, Rentokil Initial, DLO, ANGLEPOISE, JUMP, DelightInLight.
He has designed hugely successful products. He has been recognised nationally and internationally for his roles as a practical and principal designer, collaborating and supporting designer by iF Design Award (Germany), Red Dot Design Award (Germany), Good Design Award (Japan), 100% Design London (UK), London Design Festival (UK), New Designers (UK), designboom (Italy) and Gwangju Internetional Design Biennale (Korea).
“Design is meaningless unless it embodies what the elements of products are designed for – their purpose. There’s no need for excessive additions. Strip away the nonessential, as you let an element fulfill its role, and you inevitably arrive at geometric forms. The purity of this geometry means that even different shapes look perfectly natural next to each other. The shapes look so natural together that they can create visual harmony across product categories.” - Bryant Chan