Celebrating Institutional Excellence
Explore the world's leading institutions across various sectors, including education, research, healthcare, and more. Our comprehensive directory features institutions that have made significant contributions to their respective fields.
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Wu yao
China (CN)
I'm Wu Yao，In 2019, Beijing Satellite TV invited the designer of the second season of the National Palace Museum, the official cultural and creative designer of Wudang Mountain, the designer recommended by Zhan Ku, the annual cooperative designer of shede liquor industry, and the special designer of the culture and Tourism Bureau of Xi'an Qujiang Management Committee. Together with Baidu and the National Library, they designed the input method skin of Shanhaijing series, and jointly created the online red products "Palace Museum suitcase" and "Zhengda Guangmeng" with the National Palace Museum Before and after cooperation with Xinhuanet, Li Ning, China, Chengdu University Games, shede, vivo, King glory, ZTE, Netease, amuxi, COSCO, China Resources, Dongfeng Motor, etc.
View ProfileLisa Winstanley
Singapore (SG)
Lisa Winstanley is an Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Research at the School of Art, Design & Media at Nanyang Technological University. With over 15 years of commercial design experience and nearly two decades as a design educator and researcher, she has made significant contributions to visual literacy and visual communication. Her internationally recognised creative work has earned over 80 design awards, including a Red Dot Design Award, Graphis Awards, A’Design Awards, and iF Awards, and has been exhibited across 32 countries in venues such as the Oculus in New York, the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, the National Museum of Art in Bolivia, and the Dongdaemun Design Plaza in South Korea. She is the founder and PI of the Design Ethics & Visual Integrity Research Lab (DEVIL), through which her research explores the intersections of ethical design practices and pedagogies. DEVIL adopts a dyadic approach across two interconnected research pillars: transformative strategies for addressing visual plagiarism, and designerly research exploring interdisciplinary social responsibility. Lisa also serves on the advisory and editorial boards of the On the Image Research Network, is Chair of the Global Undergraduate Awards Jury for the Visual Arts category, and is a board member of the ELIA Global Connectedness Working Group.
View ProfileKetan Jawdekar
India (IN)
Born artist and architect by profession, Ketan is a founder and creative director of Studio K-7 having over 27 years of experience in the field of architecture and interior design. His tangential thinking and the abstract approach towards design have won many accolades and have delivered some of the world- class projects. His strong belief is that “Architecture created is comparable to an emergent poetry arising from the fine application of patterns, generative principals and refraction”. Ketan’s qualifications, experience and expertise in his field assist him in the enhancement of aesthetics and structural combinations. Utilization of a vailable resources is the key, which ensures work and client satisfaction, a perfectly blended composition. Qualification Bachelor Degree in Architecture (with Distinction) Second In Shivaji University, Maharashtra, INDIA Registered Professional Architect, INDIA Apart from Architecture, his interest varies from Painting, theatre, Acting, Direction, Photography and Mountaineering and have bagged many national awards for the same.
View ProfileMengyu Cao
United States of America (US)
Mengyu Cao (MC) is the founder of YiQi Hanzi. She has been making creative Chinese calligraphy to help people learn Chinese with visuals and story-telling. Her YiQi Hanzi products include physical flashcards, online learning applications, and merchandise. She started her design journey as a Graphic Designer and then stepped into Digital Product Design for the past decade.
View ProfileBe Genius Design
China (CN)
"Be Genius Design and Cultural Research (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd." is an institute jointly established by Youkun Design of Shenzhen, School of Design and Arts at Henan University of Technology, and Guanyi Cultural Design Research Center. The company's mission is to propel the advancement of cultural research and design-related fields. Its dedication lies in crafting cultural and creative product designs that resonate with societal needs, thereby pioneering a fresh endeavor in collaborative industry-academia-research initiatives.
View ProfileDeyin Zhang
China (CN)
Deyin Zhang is currently a joint PhD student at King's College London, a PhD student at Zhejiang University's School of Computer Science (China), and an outstanding undergraduate alumnus of Chongqing University (China). Deyin Zhang has awarded 2024 China Design Industry Top 100, the first time as a student to win the Top 10 Design Rising Stars (2024), China's first batch of intermediate user experience designers (2021), China's IDC ‘WUWEI’ Young Creative Talent (2023), China National Scholarship, Tencent Scholarship, Jiang Zhen Scholarship, Provincial Self-Reliance Advanced Individuals. Deyin Zhang’s main research areas are product innovation and user experience innovation, interface design and development, and large language model assisted design research, etc. He has published 15 papers and academic monographs. He has published 15 papers, 2 academic monographs and 1 national first-class undergraduate textbook. Deyin Zhang’s 4 works have been exhibited in international famous design exhibitions/weeks; won 28 famous design awards (including 19 first author awards), including German Red Dot Award, Italian A Design Award, European Product Design Award, American New Concept Art Design Award Gold Award, China Design Intelligence Award; participated in a number of national projects and enterprise innovation and design projects as a core member; won 5 national patents, and 2 personal design works have been collected by the Academy. 2 personal design works are collected by the school of arts. In the past 3 years, Deyin Zhang has won design honours in international arenas such as the World Industrial Design Conference (WIDC) and the China Industrial Design Week. 5 times he has lectured or released his innovative design achievements in the International Industry-University-Research Cooperation Conference, the 15th China Industrial Design Week and other occasions.
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