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Yunfan is a stage designer, graphic designer, and jewellery designer who learned fine arts skills since childhood. She studied performance design in Shanghai and Hong Kong, China. She later worked as a visual designer in the Shanghai Opera House. In 2021, she completed her master of design for performance at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne.

Yunfan believes creativity marks the most valuable character in her heart. Therefore, retaining unlimited creativity is what she had always been doing. As a Chinese designer, she is deeply influenced by traditional Chinese aesthetics. The concept of "harmony" is one of the core values in Chinese aesthetics, presenting the meaning of "wholeness" and "integrality". She prefers to find the connection to make the design more integrated. For example, she is interested in using colours and materials to coordinate the set and costumes, making the story more attractive and ornamental. In addition, she supposes that design should also respect the culture of different regions. A good design requires innovation but never be isolated from culture and history. So she is on the way to realise the perfect integration of tradition and modernity by carrying out creations of traditional aesthetics and reinterpreting stories from a contemporary perspective.

Also, she is sure that art defines designers' spirit, and spirituality enriches design work. She is eager to project ideas and experiences through vision and text, helping visualise invisible things and make visible things invisible. The incredible experience in the Tibetan area enriched her spiritual world greatly and let her recognise the significant influence of art on society and culture.

EXPERIENCE

Theatre / Production

Art Director

Set Designer Assistant

Set Designer Assistant

Set Designer Assistant

Set and Costume Designer

Visual Designer/Assistant to the head of The Opera Troupe

 

Stage Technical Assistant

Makeup Artist Assistant

Graphic Design

Illustrator

Graphic Designer

Art and Visual Director for Financier Magazine /Art Editor

Graphic Co-Designer

Assistant Art Editor

Jewellery Design

Registered Jewellery Designer

Founder and Independent Jewellery Designer

EDUCATION

 Graduate Diploma in Early Childhood Education

 

Master of Design for Performance

 

Bachelor of Art Design (Art Design of Performance Space)

 

Exchange Student

05/2023 -                       Film: Winter as Frida Kahlo

 

06/2022 - 03/2023        Ballet: Don Quixote, The Australian Ballet

 

12/2021                        Opera: H.M.S. Pinafore, State Opera of South Australia

 

08/2021 - 10/2021        Play: Touching the Void, Melbourne Theatre Company

 

08/2021                         Opera: The Coronation of Poppea  VCA, The University of Melbourne

09/2013 - 08/2015        Shanghai Opera House

01/2013                         Drama: No. 13 Happiness Road of the Thirteen Series       

10/2011                         Advertisement shooting: Pure and delicious taste from Anderson       

2020                               Brilliance: The Story of Fudan University

07/2018 -10/2018         Black Juice Advertisements

09/2015 -11/2016         Shanghai Far East Publisher       

 

05/2015                         Elegant Prosper/YaYing Fashion brochure for Expo Milano 2015    

07/2011 - 08/2011        Shanghai Calligraphy & Painting Publishing House

07/2016 - Present             Gems and Jewellery Trade Association of China

                                       f.D Design Studio

02/2023 - 12/2023        Victorian University 

02/2020 - 12/2021        Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne

09/2009 - 06/2013        Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts

09/2012 - 01/2013        Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts            

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