YUE LIU

I’m Yue, a freelance Product & Visual Designer from Dalian, currently based in Milan.

I have a Product Design background focusing on food-related projects and I’m a 3D printing lover experimenting with my 3D printer Prusa i3 MK3S.
I also have a Fine Art background focusing on visual communication projects.
In 2016 I co-founded a food design duo with Xijing Xu called tofoodesign and in 2022 we started a Chinese Podcast 午夜干杯MidnightToast to talk about food culture, design and art.
Feel free to contact me via Instagram / LinkedIn / Email : )

👉🏻 All works
👉🏻 Product Design Product / Food / Installation
👉🏻 Visual Design Communication / Illustration
👉🏻 News (my recent activities)
👉🏻 Journal (where I documented all my design and art practices)
👉🏻 Resume

My childhood painting experience and academic studies in Product Design have built my design identity. For that reason, I would like to call myself: Techno Poet.

In 2016, I dove into the world of food by chance, and I finally found this perfect subject that has led a lot of my research and projects. The beauty of food culture, the complexity of the large food system, and the potential for digital fabrication are my main interests.

Food is eternal. It is about tradition as well as the future. Trying to find a balanced relationship between food, culture, production systems, and technology has always been my focus of design, and all of them will eventually encompass Planet Centric Design, which is a vital vehicle to achieve effective communication.

In the same year, with Xijing Xu, we founded tofoodesign, trying to combine design and food through questioning and sublimating food-related behaviours in different cultural contexts, in the form of objects or activities.

Chinese is my mother tongue, and I also speak English, Italian and a little bit Spanish.

Have you noticed my domain name? Why “seilune”? In Italian it means “six moons” which has the same Chinese pronunciation as that of my full name. So that’s that!