Ruozhu Li

Ruozhu Li is a designer and a visual communicator based in London, UK and Chengdu, China. After few years of studying and working in advertising in Xiamen and Shanghai, she continued exploring her interests in different visual forms and came to study at the Royal College of Art. Mainly specializing in graphic design, her creative practice also includes illustration, type design, web design and photography, among others.

As a visual communicator, her main job is establish connections between things within a virtual and blank world, and show what audiences may overlook or ignore.

2020-2021 Achievements：

Terminal RCA 2021, London, UK

Inky Pixel RISO exhibition, Bananafish Bookstore, Shanghai, China

It's Nice That Interview, UK

Selected Award, JAGDA International Student Poster Award, Japan

My practice often begins with an observation from surroundings. I gradually respond to the world and explore the process and ideology behind it. Thinking through making is a very important working method, the images I produce are often the visualizations of my thoughts. With usually exuberant yet sometimes calm visual language, I reinterpret words and metaphors which are already constructed by the mass audience. I connect things, and focus on raising rather than answering questions.

My current project starts from the notion of Breaking the 4th wall (the invisible wall that separates actors from the audience in the theatre theory). By continuously questioning the interpretations of "Break" and "Wall", I propose to the audience more narrative possibilities. I divide my project into several sections that reflect different topics from social media and surveillance to Male Gaze and Asian feminism.