As a world-renowned designer and artist, Kan started his design career since 1967. Kan was an active participant of Hong Kong New Ink Art Movement and has continued to work for a spark of originality. Since early 1970s, Kan has enthusiastically participated in art and design education, and has influenced many of his pupils. Kan earned numerous awards including the “Hong Kong Ten Outstanding Young Persons Award” in 1979 and the “Urban Council Grand Award (Design)” in 1984. Kan is the first Chinese enlisted in 1995 “Who’s Who in Graphic Design” international reference book of Switzerland. He was awarded the Honour of Bronze Bauhinia Star and the Honour of Silver Bauhinia Star in 1999 and 2010 respectively. In 2016, Kan was awarded the “HKDA Lifetime Honorary Award” by Hong Kong Designers Association. Being exhibited in both local and overseas, Kan’s works are widely collected by significant museums and personal in the UK, US and China (including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan). Kan actively participates in art and design education and promotion of professionalism and earned the Honorary Doctor of Design in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2005. He is now the Honorary Dean of the Cheung Kong School of Art and Design, Shantou University, the fellow member of Hong Kong Designers Association, member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale, the advisor of the Leisure & Cultural Services Department, the Honorary Advisor of Hong Kong Museum of Art and the Advisor of China Federation of Literary and Art Circles Hong Kong Member Association Limited.