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= Lulu Li =

About
Lulu Li, born in 1972, is a cross-disciplinary designer, artist and curator born in Shandong but then moved to Beijing. Graduated from Chelsea College of Art and Design in Fine Art, Lulu Li started as a motion graphic designer and now she specialises in graphic design, motion graphics, sculpture, digital tools, and painting and has more than 20 years of national and international professional experience in the creative industry.

Lulu works “with any parameters of any given situation.” She uses everyday items “as a catalyst to trigger, intervene or evoke a series of reactions, chain reactions or to change the readings of everyday life”.

Studio Didelidi
Lulu Li founded the studio Didelidi in 2009. Didelidi Studio is a collaborative practice that creates digital media, media experiences, brand strategies and visual identity. It is a multi-disciplinary creative studio, which spans a wide range of practices like Visual communication, graphic design, illustration, motion graphics, animation, web design, app design and many more. Didelidi has had big clients such as Saatchi & Saatchi, BBDO etc, and organisations like MTV, CCTV, Nickelodeon etc.

Lightning Babe
“The Lightning Babe” was a personal project that she created in 2006. When she created the graphic series, it re-established a positive female image in China against what has been promoted in mainstream media. This design series was inspirational and graphical to young Chinese girls. The design series won her reputation in the Chinese design scene in 2007.

Lightning Babes was inspired by her childhood and her mother as Lulu Li said, “In the 1950’s when my mom was a very young woman, her dress, hairstyle, green uniform, scarlet cheeks, energetic voice and music, all became vivid memories of my childhood”.

"The Lighting Babes concept emerged from my childhood memories of the Chinese female gymnasts during the 1950’s to 1970’s. These heroic gymnasts were spiritual models for many Chinese girls. Through their grace and positive energy, they endured hardship, showed great strength and courage, and overcame formidable challenges. Since then, China has gone through a rapid modernisation and the models for young girls today have morphed. The emphasis is on fashion models, mass consumerism and alluring female portrayals in mass media. To affront this, Lighting Babes is a march against pervasive consumerism culture and conditioning."

The Emo Project
The Emo Project “Where r u…” is a 17-meter-long light installation which originated from a fantasy Lulu Li had of the text messages she sent to her loved ones. This was installed in the K11 Shanghai building façade as a permanent collection.

“The idea behind the emo project originated from a fantasy I had of my text messages, some of them are not left in vain, or gone missing, or perhaps were not communicated. I always wonder where they went, in my mind I imagined maybe they all fell into or were stuck in the gap of a virtual space or somewhere. Sometimes I thought maybe they landed on top of old buildings, street corners, wasteland, or at the blank of the lake. I made these glowing text message light sculptures physically to externalise this myth visually, then I used it to metabolise it”

Panspermia
PANSPERMIA is an NFT art project about cosmic life origin. The project is a visual exploration of the concept of panspermia, which is the hypothesis that life on Earth originated from the microorganisms or chemical precursors of life present in outer space. She uses a self-trained machine learning model (StyleGAN2) to generate a series of primordial-esque organisms. Rendered against an inky-black backdrop.

TWIN Flowers
TWIN Flowers is another project in which she utilizes infrared cameras, infrared lights, projectors, and mapping technology to completely transform two live performers. She used sequin-like wraps of projected colour to perfectly track the faces of two subjects, thereby blending the physical sphere with the digital one and creating beautiful, unique expressions of her subjects.

Awards
2016 “Eco Air Bubble” German Design Award

2015 Asia the Most Influential Design award

2015 Reddot Award

2015 Apple Store App of the Year Award

2014  Apple Store App of the Year Award

2015 Beijing International Design Week People of the Year Award

2014 IF Design Award Germany

2013 motion graphic 1st Place at Cut&Paste London

2012 Gilbert De Botton Award London UAL

Shows
2019 10 “Lightning Babe Continuum” in tribute to “Grammar of Ornament” @ Lisbon Architecture Triennial

2019 “Lightning Struck”Shenzhen Pingshan international sculpture exhibition,

2017 “Lost in play” immersive new media theatre art at Chao Hotel

2007 DSL Urban Revival Pavilion

2017 Moderate “Design Hijack” Forum at UCCA Beijing

2016“The Snoring Humming Bird” installation at CAFA museum ”

2016 “Peggy” video work at the JNBY Banana Banana show

2015 Wuzhen National Art Show

2015 Venice Architecture Biennale

2015 “Movement study” @B3 Moving image Biennale

2015 “Today was tomorrow”CCD Fabrica show“Today was tomorrow”

2015 BTS-Remade Curation

2014 “Eco Air Bubble” in Smart City Show Beijing Design Week

2014 ”Effort” video work  Liverpool group show

2014 “Movement study” Galaxy Soho opening show

2014 “Zeitgeister” neon installation at 798 Bridge space

2014 The Emo Project at 798 Bridge space

2014 Milan USB show Gallery Nowhere

2014 Star Gallery group show

2013 Audi Connected City in Beijing Design Week

2013 TEDx Garden Bridge Shanghai

2013 Chaoyang Light Festival

2013 The Emo Project collected by K11

2013 Shanghai K11 Opening Show

2013 2015 Social sensibility Research Institute

2013 Munich Space Kung solo show

2013 “Yumyumyum” live performance London Auto Italia

2013 London WoodMill

2013 “New Road ”video work at CCD “Memory and Identity”

2013 “3 women” art performance @UCCA

2010 “3 legs” animation work CCD Art Issue show

2009 “All about the village” at Get It Louder NOTCH

2009 “Instant Celebrity” art performance at Bridge Space

2009 “Social exchange” Shanghai 1933 show

2008 “Blind leading the blind” art performance CIGE “

2008 Won onedotzero /MTV Bloom young director award.

2008 CCD EEG Space art performance

2008 Shenzhen Global Warming Show

2008 70-80 Chinese Designers Show

2007 “The lightning babe” Get it Louder

2006 NYC Metamorphosis NYC Lincoln Center

2004 Munich TOCA ME 1St place