About BRIAN TENORIO, the Collection Designer

-(click title for full text) Tehran-born Filipino-American Brian Tenorio is a New York-based design and communications consultant and also the first Filipino in Pratt Institute’s Design Management Program (launched 1995 in United States).

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 shoes 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 launching his product design business, Tenorio worked as 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 a correspondent for Benetton’s COLORS Magazine.

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). He also taught design and aesthetics in the Philippines at Manila’s School of Fashion and the Arts and Introduction to Design at the Communications Department of the Ateneo de Manila University.