Hi I'm Ken or my friends know me as Duncan (long story). I am a qualified Youth & Social Services Worker with a degree majoring in Welfare studies and undertook a Masters of Social Work.
I am also an awarded web designer, marketer & advertising creative director, which myself & my partner created The Portfolio Project which was gratefully awarded with the NSW Youth Work Award.
I live in Melbourne now and would love to help your clients and consumers express themselves through creativity by melding the skills from social services, mentoring and being a practicing creative. I also hold a Masters majoring in Marketing from The University of Sydney. I've also been playing music since I was 9 and writing songs since.
Last night the program ‘The Portfolio Project’ took out the NSW Youth Work Award in one of the most competitive categories of the night for Best Innovative Partnerships.The young people got to work on a government campaign through to not for profit work for Asthma Foundation and a campaign that involved various government and NGO stakeholders that got coverage on channel 9 and 10 and was launched in Federation Square.
Spearheaded by Duncan Mah and Richard Kahotea, the program has run for around 9 months, placing 2 young people into advertising agencies. The program is called ‘The Portfolio Project’.“We wanted to give young people with disability a real go in advertising or the creative industries in general as we know there are many barriers to employment for a young person with disability, and we wanted to give them an edge when going for their first job with a portfolio of real work to show,” Says Mah.
kenmahdesigns@gmail.com