Nathan Yong

Nathan graduated from Temasek Polytechnic in Industrial Design in 1991.
In 1999, Nathan opens a small shop called Air Division,
selling his own experimental creations that is made by Asia craftsman and gain both commercial success and critical acclaim in Singapore and overseas.
He later further his studies from University of New South Wales, Australia and graduated with distinction in Master in Design.

For two consecutives year; 2006 and 2007, Nathan won the prestigious Red Dot Concept Design Award with a mass production coffin and a portable room heater.

Nathan designs have a distinctive voice, deriving from an emotional thought process that is influenced by its social and cultural of Singapore, finding its roots in childhood experience. His works show a sense of poetical undertones, where it lies in the essence of quietness, which they express;
their meditative emptiness, the illusion of nature, technology, the traditional,
the craftsmanship in their stark simplicity with a sense of humility and melancholy.

In 2008, Nathan received the prestigious Singapore President’s Design Award; Designer of the Year,
the highest honour accorded to designers from all creative disciplines in Singapore.

Currently base in Singapore, Nathan runs a multidisciplinary design consultancy and work in Industrial,
Graphic and Interior Architectural field. His market knowledge also allow him to work on various projects in strategic planning of product development and process.