tai wai david YEUNG

David Yeung was born in Hong Kong. After completion of his BA (Hons) Fashion Design in the UK, he became a design practitioner and worked in different apparel categories in Hong Kong. In 1997, he developed his career to teaching and had continuously studied in education. Throughout his teaching career, he worked from a senior lecturer to a position of a programme leader in fashion and textiles in Hong Kong.

Starting from summer 2008, he was back to the UK to pursue a MA in Design Management and graduated with a distinction in 2009. At the same time, he worked as a part time lecturer at Northumbria University teaching women’s wear group of final year students project, of whom studied in BA (Hons). Besides, his team project in the MA study won an overall championship in 2009 a project aimed at providing a 'space', a community engagement by using technological elements to enrich the environment in Durham, UK.

Between 2010 and 12, he taught fashion graduation projects at Izmir University of Economics, Turkey and completed a design research project which provides fashion and textile design items for children with mentally and physically disabilities. In Jan 2012 he taught an online fashion undergraduates design course by the Academy of Art University (AAU), San Fransico. For publication, he authored a fashion source book 'Fashion is Cool' in 2010 Hong Kong, and under Tsinghua University Press collaboration, a revised edition was published in May 2013 and gained success on mainland China market. Recently he has worked at Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology, China to take a role of a course leader in an international art and design programme. For more information about my expertise and professional portfolio, please click on www.behance.net/davidyeung