About — HT DESIGNS

HOA TONG | CREATIVE DIRECTOR

I'm an experienced Creative Director with award-winning work from over 18 years of experience on both the agency and corporate side. I specialize in generating big ideas, brand look and feel, visual storytelling, digital user experiences, brand campaigns, UX and UI designs, head-turning headlines, design thinking processes, and elegant modern designs.

I have hired, mentored, managed, and developed creative/design teams from the ground up.

My creative work has enabled Fortune companies and start up clients to succeed in both print and web, lead generation, demand creation, software applications, digital signage, social media, and experiential design.

In the span of my career so far, I've been privileged to develop creative solutions for some of the world's top brands - Cisco, Disney, ExxonMobil, Intel McAfee, Microsoft Skype, Kodak, Philips, Shell, The San Francisco Giants, and Brown-Forman (Jack Daniel's) to name a few as well as various successful Silicon Valley start ups.

Most of my creative career has been around brand creative development, but the last few years, I've taken a strong interest in experiential design, human-computer touch interaction (HCI) UX and UI within digital spaces to connect audiences emotionally to brands.

public SPEAKER

I have been an Experiential Graphic Design panel speaker for the Society for Experiential Design (SEGD) at Digital Signage Expo and a Creative panel speaker for InfoComm.

AWARDS + Honors

I have won 25 ADDY Awards, 2 Davey Awards, a Marcom Award, and a Business Marketing Association Award over the course of my career at three creative agencies.

I have also been honored as a Golden Rule Goodwill Ambassador and bestowed with an honorary Philosophy of Humanities Doctorate by Kayiwa International University for over a decade of missions and humanitarian work in several developing nations.