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'''Albert Kai-Wing Ng''', {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|OOnt}} ({{lang|zh|伍啟榮}};<ref name=ABNA-ccl/> born 1950 in [[Hong Kong]]<ref name=Who>{{cite web |url=http://circ.greyhouse.ca/cww_view/20939 |title=Detail Display Page |work=[[Canadian Who's Who]] |publisher=[[Grey House Publishing|Grey House Publishing Canada]] |accessdate=July 22, 2014}}</ref>) is a prominent [[graphic design]]er who lives and works in the [[Greater Toronto Area]]<ref name=LivingLifeByDesign>{{cite news | url=http://www.yorkregion.com/news-story/1426831-living-life-by-design/ |title=Living life by design |newspaper=[[The Newmarket Era|Newmarket Era]]|date=2008-02-17 |accessdate=July 22, 2014}}</ref> in [[Ontario]], Canada. He is known as the "Father of Canadian graphic design accreditation"<ref name=50years>{{cite journal |journal=Design Edge Canada |issn=1718-0643 |url=http://bc.gdc.net/blog/wp/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/DEC50years.pdf |title=50 years of Canadian design |date=Jul–Aug 2006 |pages=10–14 |accessdate=July 15, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101219181847/http://bc.gdc.net/blog/wp/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/DEC50years.pdf |archive-date=2010-12-19 |url-status=dead }}</ref>{{rp|11}} and is currently an [[adjunct professor]] at [[York University]].<ref name=YU-oont>{{cite web |url=http://www.yorku.ca/yfile/archive/index.asp?Article=9718 |title=York Professor Albert Ng named to the Order of Ontario |author=York University |accessdate=July 19, 2014}}</ref>
'''Albert Kai-Wing Ng''', [[Order of Ontario|O.Ont]] ({{lang|zh|伍啟榮}}<ref name=ABNA-ccl/>) is a prominent [[graphic design]]er who lives and works in [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]], [[Canada]]. He is known as the “Father of Canadian graphic design accreditation.”<ref name=50years>{{cite journal |journal=Design Edge Canada |issn=1718-0643

|url=http://bc.gdc.net/blog/wp/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/DEC50years.pdf |title=50 years of Canadian design |date=Jul/Aug 2006 |pages=10–14 |accessdate=July 15, 2014}}</ref>{{rp|11}}
Albert Ng was born<ref name=Who/><ref name=newnews2007/> and educated in Hong Kong and emigrated to Canada in 1974.<ref name=DesignEdge>{{cite news|newspaper=Design Edge Canada |url=http://www.designedgecanada.com/archives/2008/200801.shtml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090804105104/http://www.designedgecanada.com/archives/2008/200801.shtml |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 4, 2009 |date=January 9, 2008 |title=January 2008 |at=Albert Ng to receive Order of Ontario |accessdate=July 19, 2014 }}</ref> He was a past president of the Ontario chapter of the [[Society of Graphic Designers of Canada]],<ref name=50years/>{{rp|11}}<ref name=ICOGRADA-ng/> the founding president of the [[Association of Registered Graphic Designers]],<ref name=50years/><ref name=ICOGRADA-ng>{{cite web|url=http://www.icograda.org/members/members/member_list214.htm |title=Albert Ng, O. Ont., FGDC, FRGD |author=Icograda |accessdate=July 19, 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140530112436/http://www.icograda.org/members/members/member_list214.htm |archivedate=May 30, 2014 }}</ref> and a vice-president of [[Icograda]] during the 1995–1997 term.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.icograda.org/about/board/articles1910.htm |title=Board History |author=Icograda |accessdate=July 19, 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130202034259/http://www.icograda.org/about/board/articles1910.htm |archivedate=February 2, 2013 }}</ref>

His notable commissions include the Mississauga Chinese Centre stamp in 2013 and other stamp designs for [[Canada Post]].<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=[[Toronto Star]] |url=https://www.thestar.com/life/2013/05/01/canada_post_issues_stamps_celebrating_chinatown_gates.html |title=Canada Post issues stamps celebrating Chinatown gates, two GTA locations included |first=Bruce |last=DeMara |date=May 1, 2013 |accessdate=July 19, 2014}}</ref>

Albert Ng is the second graphic designer to be inducted into the Order of Ontario.<ref name=DesignEdge/>


==Honours==
==Honours==


2008 – listed in ''Canadian Who's Who 2008''<ref name=Who2008>{{cite book |title=Canadian Who's Who |edition=2008 |isbn=978-0-8020-4071-8 |issn=0068-9963 |volume=43 |date=2008 |publisher=[[University of Toronto Press]] |place=[[Toronto]] |editor-first=Elizabeth |editor-last=Lumley |page=970}}</ref>
2010 - Canadian Who's Who 100th edition


2007 (December) – [[Order of Ontario]]<ref>{{cite press release |url=http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/December2007/19/c4548.html |title=Order Of Ontario Recipients Announced |publisher=[[Canada Newswire]] |date=December 19, 2007 |author=Office of the [[Lieutenant Governor of Ontario]] |accessdate=July 19, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.citizenship.gov.on.ca/english/citizenship/honours/orderofontario_appointees.shtml#2007 |title=Order of Ontario Appointees by year of Appointment: 2007 Appointees |author=Ontario Ministry of Citizenship, Immigration and International Trade |accessdate=July 19, 2014}}</ref>
2007 (December) – [[Order of Ontario]]<ref>{{cite press release |url=http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/December2007/19/c4548.html |title=Order Of Ontario Recipients Announced |publisher=[[Canada Newswire]] |date=December 19, 2007 |author=Office of the [[Lieutenant Governor of Ontario]] |accessdate=July 19, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.citizenship.gov.on.ca/english/citizenship/honours/orderofontario_appointees.shtml#2007 |title=Order of Ontario Appointees by year of Appointment: 2007 Appointees |author=Ontario Ministry of Citizenship, Immigration and International Trade |accessdate=July 19, 2014 |archive-date=November 28, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181128223316/http://www.citizenship.gov.on.ca/english/citizenship/honours/orderofontario_appointees.shtml#2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref>


2006 - Fellow, The Association of Registered Graphic Designers of Ontario<ref>{{cite mailing list |url=http://old.sdc.sk/index.php?lang=sk&menu=info&page=icograda_1906 |mailing list=
2006 - Fellow, The Association of Registered Graphic Designers of Ontario<ref>{{cite mailing list |url=http://old.sdc.sk/index.php?lang=sk&menu=info&page=icograda_1906 |mailing-list=
Icograda eNews |title=Icograda eNews 19/06 |publisher=[[Icograda]] |accessdate=July 19, 2014}}</ref>
Icograda eNews |title=Icograda eNews 19/06 |publisher=[[Icograda]] |accessdate=July 19, 2014}}</ref>


2005 - Chinese Canadian Legend Award<ref name=ABNA-ccl>{{cite web |url=http://www.abna.ca/Chinese%20Canadian%20Legend.html |title=Chinese Canadian Legend |accessdate=July 19, 2014}}</ref><ref name=newnews2007>{{cite news |url=http://www.newnews.ca/?action-viewnews-itemid-1273 |title=<span lang=zh>2华人精英麥德華伍啟榮獲安省勳章</span> |language=zh |trans_title=Two eminent Chinese, Tak Mak and Albert Kai-Wing Ng, honoured with Order of Ontario medal| publisher=NewNews |date=December 23, 2007 |accessdate=July 19, 2014}}</ref>
2005 - Chinese Canadian Legend Award<ref name=ABNA-ccl>{{cite web|url=http://www.abna.ca/Chinese%20Canadian%20Legend.html |title=Chinese Canadian Legend |accessdate=July 19, 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140808145828/http://www.abna.ca/Chinese%20Canadian%20Legend.html |archivedate=August 8, 2014 }}</ref><ref name=newnews2007>{{cite news |url=http://www.newnews.ca/?action-viewnews-itemid-1273 |title=<span lang=zh>2华人精英麥德華伍啟榮獲安省勳章</span> |language=zh |trans-title=Two eminent Chinese, Tak Wah Mak and Albert Kai-Wing Ng, honoured with Order of Ontario medal |publisher=NewNews |date=December 23, 2007 |accessdate=July 19, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140725162011/http://www.newnews.ca/?action-viewnews-itemid-1273 |archive-date=July 25, 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref>


1996 - Fellow, The Society of Graphic Designers of Canada<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.gdc.net/inspiration/fellows |title=GDC Fellows |author=[[Society of Graphic Designers of Canada]] |accessdate=July 19, 2014}}</ref>
1996 - Fellow, The Society of Graphic Designers of Canada<ref>{{cite web|url=https://gdc.design/fellows/albert-ng-fgdc|title=GDC Fellows|author=Society of Graphic Designers of Canada|author-link=Society of Graphic Designers of Canada|date=|website=|accessdate=July 19, 2014}}</ref>


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Albert Kai-Wing Ng
O.Ont, FRGD, FGDC
Born1950 (1950)[1]
Hong Kong[1][2]
NationalityCanadian
Alma materHong Kong Polytechnic Institute, Ontario College of Art, Ryerson Polytechnical Institute[1]
Known forgraphic design

Albert Kai-Wing Ng, OOnt (伍啟榮;[3] born 1950 in Hong Kong[1]) is a prominent graphic designer who lives and works in the Greater Toronto Area[4] in Ontario, Canada. He is known as the "Father of Canadian graphic design accreditation"[5]: 11  and is currently an adjunct professor at York University.[6]

Albert Ng was born[1][2] and educated in Hong Kong and emigrated to Canada in 1974.[7] He was a past president of the Ontario chapter of the Society of Graphic Designers of Canada,[5]: 11 [8] the founding president of the Association of Registered Graphic Designers,[5][8] and a vice-president of Icograda during the 1995–1997 term.[9]

His notable commissions include the Mississauga Chinese Centre stamp in 2013 and other stamp designs for Canada Post.[10]

Albert Ng is the second graphic designer to be inducted into the Order of Ontario.[7]

Honours

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2008 – listed in Canadian Who's Who 2008[11]

2007 (December) – Order of Ontario[12][13]

2006 - Fellow, The Association of Registered Graphic Designers of Ontario[14]

2005 - Chinese Canadian Legend Award[3][2]

1996 - Fellow, The Society of Graphic Designers of Canada[15]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e "Detail Display Page". Canadian Who's Who. Grey House Publishing Canada. Retrieved July 22, 2014.
  2. ^ a b c "2华人精英麥德華伍啟榮獲安省勳章" [Two eminent Chinese, Tak Wah Mak and Albert Kai-Wing Ng, honoured with Order of Ontario medal] (in Chinese). NewNews. December 23, 2007. Archived from the original on July 25, 2014. Retrieved July 19, 2014.
  3. ^ a b "Chinese Canadian Legend". Archived from the original on August 8, 2014. Retrieved July 19, 2014.
  4. ^ "Living life by design". Newmarket Era. 2008-02-17. Retrieved July 22, 2014.
  5. ^ a b c "50 years of Canadian design" (PDF). Design Edge Canada: 10–14. Jul–Aug 2006. ISSN 1718-0643. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-12-19. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
  6. ^ York University. "York Professor Albert Ng named to the Order of Ontario". Retrieved July 19, 2014.
  7. ^ a b "January 2008". Design Edge Canada. January 9, 2008. Albert Ng to receive Order of Ontario. Archived from the original on August 4, 2009. Retrieved July 19, 2014.
  8. ^ a b Icograda. "Albert Ng, O. Ont., FGDC, FRGD". Archived from the original on May 30, 2014. Retrieved July 19, 2014.
  9. ^ Icograda. "Board History". Archived from the original on February 2, 2013. Retrieved July 19, 2014.
  10. ^ DeMara, Bruce (May 1, 2013). "Canada Post issues stamps celebrating Chinatown gates, two GTA locations included". Toronto Star. Retrieved July 19, 2014.
  11. ^ Lumley, Elizabeth, ed. (2008). Canadian Who's Who. Vol. 43 (2008 ed.). Toronto: University of Toronto Press. p. 970. ISBN 978-0-8020-4071-8. ISSN 0068-9963.
  12. ^ Office of the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (December 19, 2007). "Order Of Ontario Recipients Announced" (Press release). Canada Newswire. Retrieved July 19, 2014.
  13. ^ Ontario Ministry of Citizenship, Immigration and International Trade. "Order of Ontario Appointees by year of Appointment: 2007 Appointees". Archived from the original on November 28, 2018. Retrieved July 19, 2014.
  14. ^ "Icograda eNews 19/06". Icograda eNews (Mailing list). Icograda. Retrieved July 19, 2014.
  15. ^ Society of Graphic Designers of Canada. "GDC Fellows". Retrieved July 19, 2014.


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