Pratt Institute

Alumnus, Design Management

Thesis Title: Design Policy Models and Frameworks for Developing Countries

About

Tehran-born Filipino-American Brian Tenorio is a New York-based design manager and communications consultant and is currently a Consultant for Branding and Design (international) at the Asian Development Bank (www.adb.org). He also is the Chair of the Designers for Development Network (www.designersfordevelopment.com)-- a group of communication strategists designing for the international organizations in the global development sphere. He is the former Director of Communications and Design of Womensphere in New York City. Tenorio received his Master of Professional Studies in Design Management degree from Pratt Institute (New York), researching on National Design Policy frameworks for developing countries. During the first half of 2010, Tenorio was a graduate-level intern at the United Nations, working with its Language and Communications Program in New York.

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He is also one of the most widely-publicized designers in the Philippines. His design company, Tenorio Manila (www.tenorio.asia), won the Battle of the Business Plans competition in the country, and was a semi-finalist in the Harvard Business School 2005 Entrepreneurial Idol in Boston, Massachusetts. He is a winner of the 2007 Dutch-sponsored Philippine Bid Challenge (a satellite search of the International Business in Development Network Foundation) and also the Philippine Junior Chamber International’s Creative Young Entrepreneur for 2007. Tenorio’s designs have been shown in art exhibitions in New York and in Manila and were also included in the book 50 Must-Buys from Manila launched December 2008.

Before designing shoes and accessories, Tenorio was a graphic designer and communications consultant for multi-nationals, design firms, and corporations in the Philippines, Europe, and the United States. He has won design awards in Asia, including the Asian Printing Press Awards in Singapore and the Philippine National Book Awards (2008 Best Designer). He also worked as an international correspondent for United Colors of Benetton’s COLORS Magazine, and as a contributor to major newspapers in the Philippines, on topics about Philippine and international Design. In November 2009, Tenorio launched his first project in industrial design: a designer line of luxury caskets and urns in the Philippines—Lux Mortem (www.luxmortem.com).

He finished the Managing the Arts Program at the Asian Institute of Management (2002), after graduating a few years prior at the Ateneo de Manila University (2000). After teaching design at the Ateneo de Manila University’s Communications Department, he was the first to teach design and aesthetics in the Philippines at Manila’s School of Fashion and the Arts.

Tenorio is a member of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, the Design Management Institute (Boston, USA), Asia Society (New York), and NetImpact.

Downloadable resume:
http://resume.briantenorio.com

Print design sampler:
http://print.briantenorio.com

Print design portfolio at:
http://graphicdesign.briantenorio.com

Fashion/shoe design project/label:
www.tenorio.asia

Industrial design project, Lux Mortem:
www.luxmortem.com

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