Horace Pan, a Hong Kong design figure famous for creating story-telling and unique spatial experiences of various commercial interior disciplines, obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in Interior Design and Master of Arts degree in Design from School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He established his award-winning design practice PANORAMA in 2003. The company provides consultancy services in Interior Architecture & Branding Solution and receives over 100 international awards including Germany’s iF Design Awards & Red Dots Awards, US’s IIDA Global Excellence Awards & IDA Design Awards, Japan’s JCD Design Awards Best 100, Taiwan’s TID Design Award, UK’s FX Design Awards, Restaurant & Bar Design Awards Finalist, Singapore’s SIDS Design Award & INSIDE Awards Finalist , Netherland’s Great Indoors Awards Nominee, China’s Most Successful Design Awards, The Ring - iC@ward International Interior Design, Hong Kong’s Asia Pacific Interior Design Awards, Hong Kong Designers Association Global Design Awards, Perspective Design Recognition Awards and Design for Asia Awards Finalist. Projects have been featured in numerous international design magazines & journals, e.g. Netherland’s FRAME, Japan’s World Hyper Interiors, Singapore’s d+a, Korea’s Interior World & bob, Taiwan’s Interior & CONDE.

Pan is frequently invited to be the guest speaker of international design conferences and seminars. He now furthers his professional career in the field of design education and is the assistant professor at School of Design, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and serving as the Vice Chairman of the Hong Kong Interior Design Association and 2011-14 Executive Board Member of the International Federation of Interior Architects/Designers (IFI).

Pan received Hong Kong Ten Outstanding Designers Award and China Entrepreneur Award in 2008 & 2010 respectively, 2015-16 Designer of the Year in China. Pan was the only Chinese among the 10 invited international designers in 2011 Taiwan International Interior Design Exhibition. In 2014 Pan received Hong Kong & Shenzhen Outstanding Achievement Designer Award in recognition of his contribution to the interior industry development over the past decade. In 2016 & 2017 Pan was respectively invited as international judge for Hong Kong’s APIDA Award and Japan’s JCD Award.