Visualizing Multi-Racialism in Singapore: Graphic Design as a Tool for Ideology and Policy in Nation Building

Leong K. Chan is Associate Professor in graphics design at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. His current research focuses on socio-graphic history of HIV/AIDS, graphic design and national experience, and visual culture of East Asia. Chan is joint research director of the Australian Socio-Graphic AIDS Project and the Southeast Asian Socio-Graphic AIDS Project, which document the trajectories of HIV/AIDS through material and visual cultures, public health campaigns, and socio-graphic representations of the epidemic.