Theseus Chan is a Singaporean graphic artist and printed matter designer with a keen interest in the visual arts, materials, printing and processing technology. His publication, WERK Magazine has garnered international acclaim for pushing publication design. He was the first visual communication designer in Singapore to be conferred Designer of the Year at the inaugural President’s Design Award Singapore in 2006. In 2012, he was the first Singaporean designer to have a solo exhibition at the prestigious Ginza Graphic Gallery in Tokyo. In 2015 he became the only Singaporean to be elected as member of AGI Alliance Graphique Internationale. His work is in the permanent collections of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York and M+, Museum of Visual Culture in Hong Kong. Some of his collaborators include Comme des Garçons, Gerhard Steidl, Keiichi Tanaami, ISETAN Japan and Harumi Yamaguchi.
