Bridge (Spring 2001) - SUNY Institute of Technology

East Meets West:
Faculty Member’s Designing Life
Green Consumerism in
Hong Kong Monograph
Room 1173, tucked into
the corner of a suite of
faculty offices on the
first floor of Donovan Hall, is
home to a new faculty member
in the School of Arts & Sciences.
She’s Dr. Wendy Siuyi
Wong, assistant professor of
graphic design.
A native of Hong Kong, Dr.
Wong says she’s enjoying her
new home. “I like it here very
much so far,” says Dr. Wong.
“My colleagues and my students
are very friendly and
helpful.” Dr. Wong also appreciates
the campus accommodations,
she says. She’s living in
Mohawk Hall this semester,
while she gets to know the
neighborhood and acquires her
New York State driver’s license.
With a B.A., M.A., and Ph.D.
from the Hong Kong Polytechnic
University School of Design,
Dr. Wong’s creative and
teaching interests center on “the
creative visual thinking process,
the use of digital media in
desktop publishing, digital
publishing online... and exhibition
curatorship.” Her work
and her life have been closely
intertwined over the last number
of years; she began teaching
full-time in 1997, finished
her doctoral dissertation in
1998, served as a visiting
scholar at Harvard University
from 1999 to 2000, and was the
Lubalin Curatorial Fellow at
The Cooper Union School of
Art in 2000.
She is the author of two
books for Chinese readers, “Advertising,
Culture, and Everyday
Life I: Hong Kong Newspaper
Advertisements, 1945-
1970,” and “An Illustrated History
of Hong Kong Comics,”
both published in 1999. She is
currently working with
Princeton Architectural Press to
produce an English version of
the history of Hong Kong comics.
“The translation requires
more background information
to explain Chinese culture to
readers who are not familiar
with it,” she says.
Dr. Wong has also written
several journal articles. They
can be found in the “Journal of
Design History” (2000), “Mass
Communication and Society”
(2000), the “Journal of Visual
Literacy” (2000), and the “International
Journal of Comic
Art” (2000).
In addition to starting work
at SUNY Utica/Rome this fall,
Dr. Wong recently prepared for
the opening of an exhibit at The
Cooper Union for the Advancement
of Science and Art in New
York City. The opening of the
show was delayed because of
the terrorist attacks on September
11, but is now underway.
8 The Bridge
Promotional leaflet for a
film series featuring the
work of Suzuki Seijun, The
Master of Japanese “B”
Movies