Education
Georgia Institute of Technology. University of Virginia.
Georgia Institute of Technology. University of Virginia.
He periodically appeared on TLC"s Trading Spaces through its fourth season, and was known for frequently including silk, candles and flowers in the rooms he designed. He is one of the panel of judges on HGTV"s Design Star. Yip hosted four seasons of HGTV"s show Deserving Design.
Yip went to high school in northern Virginia at McLean High School in the class of 1986.
After earning two degrees, just prior to entering his pre-medicine program, he changed his mind, and decided to get into architecture. Yip states he would have been quite happy running a design company, and never intended to become a television personality, but he"s very pleased with the new show, and he felt it was what he was meant to do.
Yip double-majored in Chemistry and Economics at his alma mater, the University of Virginia, and later received a masters in management and architecture from the Georgia Institute of Technology.