Yulong Lli and his studio in Shanghai
Yulong Lli is a Shanghai-based freelance illustrator who studied visual design and illustration at the China Academy of Art and received his master's degree in 2020. He seeks and explores new ways to tell stories through different colors and creates compositions in illustrations. His style remarks the fusion of Eastern and western culture inspired by vintage posters, modernist art, and graphic design.
He is also running a mandarin podcast named Illustration Talk on Apple Podcast, interviewing illustrators and creative directors to share news and recent studies.
Awards & Events
ADC Awards, Cube & Merit
ADC Young Guns, Shortlist
Adobe Top Talent
American Illustration, Chosen Winner &Selected Winner
Behance Appreciation Award Portfolio Review
Communication Arts Illustration Annual, Winner
Creativepool Award, Shortlist
Hiii Illustration Award, Best of the Best
Forbes Under 30
SOI Illustration Competition, Winner
World Illustration Award, Shortlist
3X3 Illustration Annual, Distinguished Merit / Merit / Honorable Mention
“Unlimited Intimacy” solo illustration exhibition, Shanghai, Chengdu, Guangzhou and Fuzhou (2021-2022)
TEDxLianyang, Shanghai (2021)
Today at Apple, Shanghai (2021)
Swatch Art Peace Hotel Residency, Shanghai (2021)
“Food Words of Shanghainese” solo illustration exhibition, Shanghai (2021)
"The Shanghairen" cover illustration exhibition, Shanghai (2020)
"Casa China" Graphic Days Torino exhibition, Turin (2019)
SOI illustrators exhibition, New York (2018)
Selected Client List
Commercial: Apple, Google, Airbnb, LVMH, Gucci, Blancpain, Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels, COACH, B&B Italia, Issey Miyake, Harrods, Galeries Lafayette, NET-A-PORTER, Lululemon, Starbucks, Johnson and Johnson, Pernod Ricard China, Park Hyatt Beijing, Hongkong Airlines, SUNING Shopping mall, Taikooli Shopping mall, Columbia University, and so on.
Editorial: New York Times, ELLE Decoration, GQ magazine, Cosmopolitan, VOGUE, Bloomberg Businessweek HK, Modern Weekly, Men's Health US, Esquire fine, Culture trip, Teaching Tolerance magazine, Life&Letters magazine, and so on.
Contact
yulonglli0318@gmail.com / Richard Solomon Artists Representative