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Li Zhang is a professor at Purdue University, a director at the China Europe International Design Culture Association, and an internationally recognized designer, speaker, curator,... and juror. Professor Zhang has been designated as a Fellow Expert of the China Foreign Experts Bureau, an Honorary Professor at five universities, and an Olympic research fellow and consultant at the Art Research Centre for the Olympic Games in Beijing, China. Zhang has been invited to be on outstanding international jury panels in Italy, China, Korea, Poland, Germany, and the USA. Prof. Zhang's design profession, marked by over two decades of groundbreaking work in graphic design, has significantly advanced the discipline academically and in the broader societal context. Professor Zhang's work has been extensively exposed worldwide, with hundreds of exhibitions/publications in more than forty countries across five continents. Zhang has exhibited in some of the world’s most important poster biennales and triennials: Warsaw (Poland), Fort Collins (USA), Mexico City (Mexico), Moscow (Russia), Trnava (Slovakia), and Sofia (Bulgaria). In addition, Professor Zhang has been invited to exhibit alongside a small select group of highly accomplished designers like Paula Scher, Davis Paul, and Maviyane-Davis Chaz. Zhang’s work has also been recognized with many significant design awards, such as First Prize in the Domtar Creative Awards, the World’s Most Memorable Poster Competition’s Top One Award in the USA, Award of Design Excellence in Print, Gold Medal Award and Award of Distinction in Creativity, and multiple Graphis Gold Awards. More than seventy of Zhang’s works are in prestigious permanent collections, including the Library of Congress (Washington, D.C.), the Zürich Museum of Design (Switzerland), the Victoria & Albert Museum (UK), Imperial War Museum (UK), the Ogaki Poster Museum (Japan), and the Lahti Poster Museum (Finland).Read More

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Professor Zhang's work has been extensively exposed worldwide, with over two hundred exhibitions/publications in more than forty countries across five continents. Zhang has also been... recognized with more than fifty design awards such as the First Prize in Domtar Creative Awards (The only first prize over all categories), The World’s Most Memorable Poster Competition’s Top One Award in the USA, Award of Design Excellence in Print (20,000 entries), Second Prize in the Computer Space (0.5%), Gold Medal Award in Creativity, and Gold Awards in Graphis (“honor the very best in Design on a global scale.”). More than seventy of Zhang’s works are in prestigious permanent collections including the Library of Congress (Washington, D.C.), the Zürich Museum of Design (Switzerland), the Victoria & Albert Museum (UK), Imperial War Museum (UK), the Ogaki Poster Museum (Japan), and the Lahti Poster Museum (Finland).Read More