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Carolyn Teo, Sean Lan, Benjy Choo and Adrian Tan

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Successors (2001)

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Dip. in Visual Comm, Temasek Polytechnic (1998)

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Co-founded Kinetic Singapore (the print arm)

2001

Nominated Singapore's Most Influential Creative Directors by Institute of Advertising Singapore and SMRT Media

2006-11

Awarded Singapore’s Most Influential Creative Directors of the Year by Institute of Advertising Singapore and SMRT Media

2012

Independent Agency of the Year, Singapore Creative Circle Awards

Design Agency of the Year, Singapore Creative Circle Awards

Awarded "Designer of the Year", President*s Design Award 

2013

Agency of the Year, Singapore Creative Circle Awards

Awarded "Design of the Year", President*s Design Award

2015

 Appointed Chairman for Singapore Creative Circle Awards

2016

Appointed Design Craft Jury President D&AD Awards

2017

Appointed Design Jury President AdFest Awards 

2018

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Ranked 5th as "Design Agency of the Year", D&AD Awards 

2022

Family and kinfolk. These are anchors for Pann Lim, co-founder of Kinetic Singapore, a local creative agency founded in 2001. With no less than 550 awards to its name, Kinetic was recently ranked 5th as Design Agency of the Year 2022 at the D&AD awards. Pann Lim was also the recipient of the prestigious President*s Design Award “Designer of the Year” in 2013. However, Pann does not over-rate these accolades. He remains grounded and shares some hard truths in running a creative agency for over 20 years, where hard work and humility never lose its value. Our writer Chris Low gets some life and work lessons from Pann Lim.


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Graduates from NUS with a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture. Joins Alfred Wong Partnership. Joins the art collective Plastique Kinetic Worms.

1997 

1999

Designs the Singapore Pavilion at the World Expo in Aichi, Japan.

2005

Co-founds gallery-bar, Night & Day, with Kelley Cheng.

2009

2011

Wins the President’s Design Award for his collaborative artwork Building as a Body (2011). Moves into current office in Golden Mile Tower.

Curates Singapore: Inside Out in Beijing, London, New York and Singapore.

Collaborates with urban farming initiative, City Sprouts, for Archifest.

2020

With a fairly young design tradition, it was only in recent years that more designers have been branching out across different disciplin. But Randy Chan of Zarch Collaboratives has always embraced the interconnected relationship between art, architecture and design. It was when he joined the art collective, Plastique Kinetic Worms, that he fully realised the potential of a collaborative approach. Being involved in curation, conservation, architecture, and art installation, Zarch Collaboratives deconstructs the traditional rules of genre and approach, demonstrating an innovative vision of what design can be.