Interview with Ellen Zhu
Ellen Zhu is an Australian emerging visual artist and visual communication designer, currently completing her postgraduate design degree at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.
Design Legend Interview
1 November 2016
I am a visual artist and visual communication designer, currently completing my postgraduate design degree at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. My Bachelor Degree in Fine Arts at The University of New South Wales (UNSW ART & Design) was completed in Sydney. I consider myself as a mixed-media artist.
My Australia identity and China heritage strongly influenced my art and design practices.
At the age of two, I followed my family immigrated to Australia in 1996. In the beginning, before I completely mastered both Chinese and English, drawing was the way foe me to communicate with others, I think from this point laid my future to study art and design.
I like to engage with art related categories of crossover design. Working in different areas can motivate and inspire my design.
The depth of the design's embedded value. It is important to focus on the aesthetic aspect for a design, but at the same time a design without any connotation and meaning is nothing.
To me "design" is the language to communicate and express identity to others.
I think it is important to deliver positive energy to the public.
Having an good idea, seeing it slowly starts to take shape and having the design produced is like witnessing a birth of new life, this is the best part of being a designer.