About

“Observe life with the eyes of a journalist and change it with the pen of a designer.”

Photography by @ LOMO Studio @Feiyun Ruan

Qixin Chen is a multidisciplinary designer, design lecturer at Wenzhou Kean University. With a background as a journalist, she started her design journey in 2016 at the State Academy of Design and Arts in Stuttgart, Germany, and graduated in 2022. Her work focuses on cultural and social themes, such as intercultural communication, living culture, and environmental protection. She also specializes in concept development using a design thinking approach. After graduation, she works with alumni HP Lutsch as collective endeavour, chen+lutsch creatives. They create emotionally engaging and coherent concepts for products, spaces and art objects, as well as the unique design languages of the East and the West.

Education

Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, Germany
Diplom (Ba.+Ma.), Industrial Design

Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China
BA. Journalism

California State University, Long Beach, USA. 
Exchange Program, Industrial Design

Works

2022 Sugar: a love-hate story

2021 Hide/Show

2021 Huggit

2020 Modules living

2019 Escort

2019 Back to Back, Face to Face

2019 Life for Rent

2019 Measure of Life

2018 Calisa

2018 Nocheese

2017 Allnamente

2017 Tea Raclett

2016 Wave

2016 Dynamic Forming