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Leimei
Julia Chiu |
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Design
Producer
Director, International Design Center NAGOYA Inc.
Leimei Julia Chiu has spent most of her adult life working to
help designers and students of design promote their work across
national and cultural barriers. To this end, she has striven
to help them achieve true cross-cultural experiences that will
add to their lives and enrich their output as professionals.
Born in Taiwan, raised and educated in the USA and later in
Japan, Leimei has acquired a diverse cultural and academic foundation.
Her areas of formal study were Mathematics, Chemistry, Linguistics,
and Cross-cultural communications. As a genuine product of multicultural
education and life experiences, Leimei has made the best use
of her abilities by concentrating on strategic development,
execution, and consulting for design promotion around the world.
Leimei serves as Director of Global Communications for the International
Design Center NAGOYA (IdcN).IdcN is a multi-disciplinary joint
venture between the Japanese government and a consortium of
102 corporations. It is one of the largest institutes in the
world devoted to the promotion of design. In her capacity there,
Leimei has instigated and acted as creative director for a multitude
of design promotion projects. Her goal has always been to promote
and inspire designers as individuals. This determination has
led her to conceive of unique and challenging projects suited
to the participants and their work. Leimei's workshops and competitions
have consistently proven fruitful; those involved would certainly
agree that the more demanding the project, the greater the results.
In her design promotion projects, carried out in both private
and public sectors, Leimei has worked with major Japanese corporations
as well as with governments and academic institutions in countries
across Europe, North America, and the Pan Pacific Rim. From
1997 through 2001, Leimei acted as Vice President of the International
Council of Graphic Designers Association (Icograda). A recipient
of The Mainichi Design Award (jointly with the 2003 Icograda
Congress 'VISUALOGUE' Planning team) and Icograda President's
Award, she has served on numerous competition juries, including
Red Dot Award, Brno Biennial, Design for Asia Award; and currently
serves on the Jury of the Good Design Award, Japan's only overall
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