Nagashima Rikako specialises in graphic design. Her works include identity, sign planning, book and spatial design. Environmental considerations are foremost in her designs, and she works with an awareness of the environmental damage caused by design. Examples in her practice include intentionally incorporating ink stains and scrap paper generated in the printing process as a pattern to avoid creating waste (David Lynch, From the Fringes of the Mind), spatial design that uses offcut fabric from product manufacture (DESCENTE BLANC, 10th exhibition), or textile design in which ink stains on scrap […]
Takahashi Naotaka lives in Chuo City, Shikoku, Ehime Prefecture in Japan. He has spent more than 40 years producing three-dimensional gold thread embroidery decorations for the local Niihama Taiko Festival. In 2005, he was certified as an ‘Ehime Traditional Craftsman’ and in 2018 he was awarded the ‘Outstanding Skilled Person, Commendation from the Governor of Ehime Prefecture’. In 2020 he received the ‘Award for Outstandingly Skilled Workers (Contemporary Master Craftsman)’ from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan.
Lu Yang is a multi-media artist based in Shanghai. Mortality, androgyny, hysteria, existentialism and spiritual neurology feed Lu’s jarring and at times morbid fantasies. Taking inspiration and resources from anime, gaming and sci-fi subcultures, Lu explores his fantasies through mediums including 3D animation, immersive video game installation, holography, live performances, virtual reality and computer programming. Lu has collaborated with scientists, psychologists, performers, designers, experimental composers, Pop Music producers, robotics labs and celebrities throughout his practice. Lu Yang has held solo exhibitions in UCCA Center for […]
Liu Yi was born in 1990 in Ningbo, China. She graduated from the China Academy of Fine Arts School of Intermedia Art with a Bachelor degree and the China Academy of Fine Arts with a Master degree in 2012 and 2016 respectively. She currently lives in Hangzhou. He primary research direction is ‘Early Chinese art films and experimental animation’. Her video works include Origin of Species, Chaos Theory, A Travel Inward, Into The Void, A Crow Has Been Calling […]
Li Zhiqian is an interdisciplinary researcher and practitioner who uses design as a point of departure. His works include typography research, graphic, spatial and product design, video production, writing, translation and curation. He is the project lead of Shanghai Type and TypeTour, and co-founder of 3type. He is a Research Fellow at Type Lab, Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts. His research focus is the history of type production and type design in China from the late 19th century. For the […]
Lau Chi Chung graduated from The Surrey Institute of Art & Design University College (BFA on Interior Design) in 1999, and worked in the television commercial industry as an art director before becoming a full-time artist. Although he started out on short films, Lau has mostly worked in photography and has exhibited in various international photo festivals. His photography series Landscaped Artifacts in 2013 brought him the title of New Photography Artist from Lianzhoufoto Festival 2013. Lau has also received third prize […]
Kim Hwang is a designer who has been working with the boundaries of applied design, advocating designs that resist the authority and restraint of a coherent techno-global system. With a focus on interdisciplinary activities, he has been examining the coarseness of repressive logic, the image of senselessness and comedy in reality. As a designer, he has been deeply disturbed by the contradictions of his own design activities oriented in self-profit and hopes to resolve the dilemma by becoming a socially […]
Nakata Takuma is a Realtime Graphics Artist based in Kyoto. He grew up in Senegal, Brazil and Indonesia, and studied Visual Design in Japan and Interaction Design in The Netherlands. His works emphasise how to design experience to tempt audience into the immersive world of visuals and technology by converting virtual phenomena into physical experience. He is the Technical Director at BASSDRUM and Adobe Creative Residency Alumni (2019-20).
Mieno Ryu was born in Hyogo in 1988. After graduating from Kyoto Seika University with a degree in Graphic Design in 2011, he started his career as a freelance graphic designer in Kyoto. He produces graphic designs mainly for publicity design for art, theatres, as well as text graphic design in logos and products.
Born in 1984, Iguchi Kota is a Motion Designer/Creative Director. While studying at Musashino Art University, he founded TYMOTE in 2008. And he founded the creative association CEKAI in 2013. He specialises in motion graphics and works as a video director and team-building creative director. His major awards include the Bronze Pencil winner in The One Show in 2013, Yellow Pencil winner in D&AD 2013 and 2015, TOKYO TDC Award 2014, NY ADC Gold Award 2015. He is a guest […]