Vita

Lidan Liu is part owner of designaffairs China and founder as well as CEO of iMonkey, a Xiaomi Ecological chain enterprise. As one of the leading design and consulting agencies today, designaffairs originally emerged from a former design department of the Siemens Group. In 2010, designaffairs was founded under the direction of Lidan Liu, who has already won more than 70 design awards together with her team, including the iF design award, the Red Dot Design Award and the Good Design Award. Lidan is also an associate professor at the College for Design and Innovation at Tongji University and has been a member of many different design juries, such as the Braun Prize 2018 and the iF design awards 2012, 2014 and 2015. (January 2021)