ZHOU, Ziwu | Visual Designer

Highly experienced in interface design for both online and offline products. Other specialities include motion graphics, graphic design, illustration, 3D modeling, as well as user interaction design and user research.

1 E Scott St, Unit#1311, 
Chicago, IL 60610

zhouziwu@ziwudesign.com
zhouziwu@gmail.com
(+1) 312 608 1787

Hello!

This is Ziwu Zhou. Welcome to my website!

Received my BA in Information Design from Tsinghua University, Beijing, my MFA in Visual Communication from SAIC (The School of the Art Institute of Chicago), I have backgrounds in both Design and Fine Arts field, especially in the area of user interface design. With interest in a wide range of art and design forms, I’m also experienced in graphic design, motion graphics, web design, illustration, and more. Through years of design practice, I focus on how to apply different visual languages into my work, exploring both graphical and three-dimensional approaches.

Specialties:
User interface design, information graphics, Flash animation and interactive (ActionScript3.0), web design, graphic design, motion graphics (After Effect), illustration, and 3D modeling.

download Ziwu's Resume 

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MFA, The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, US
BA, Tsinghua University, China

TOCA, 2010 | Oncall interactive, 2009 | IBM, 2007 | SIEMENS, 2007, more…

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• user interface/web design
• motion graphics
• graphic design
• new media

Jazz, B/W

Now & Then, title
music by Air, Sing Sang Sung
It works as a title of my thesis project, Now & Then.

Relativity_Space, Time & Me
music by The Whitest Boy Alive, Burning.
A short Flash animation I made for the Dept. of Visual Communication’s gard seminar of Form-Conf-Context. Tried to explored the relationship of Space, Time and me.

• Who am I?
• Where did I come from?
• What is life on a daily basis?
• How should I behave as a gendered being?

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