JING PING LIAU

An innovator requires knowledge and passion across disciplines. Jing Liau is an innovative designer from Taiwan who has backgrounds across a wide range of industries. Having prior degrees in Business Administration and Menswear Design Technology has set up the foundation for merging art and craft in a creative and mature style. After studying computer science and coding, Jing expanded her knowledge into digital art, communication and fabrication to improve and push her study and design into wider applications with new cutting-edge ideas. 

Jing's design philosophy and focuses are sustainability, in the era of the urge to change, Jing spent most of her studies on finding new future materials, biomaterials and sustainable systems. Material science and research have always been a passion of Jing's, this can be seen across her menswear collection, product designs and material innovation projects. The thirst for knowledge and desire of learning from new collaborators across industries illustrated Jing's ability for innovation and the talent for being a futuristic designer for a better world. 

Innovation design engineering is a platform and a lab for cutting-edge creativities. During the IDE course, I have been able to merge my knowledge in business, textile, material, digital software and design with engineering to challenge my imagination and the ability to improve the world we are living in.

In IDE, I have been passionate about weaving myself into a wide range of industries and expanding my knowledge for future career development. I have done a series of projects including Craft, Furniture, VR gaming design, Soft Robotic Design, Smart Textile for Medical Technology and Bio Future Material Engineering. Having a creative and artistic vision and being able to translate the concept into a wide range of media in critical thinking and design process is the main quality of being an innovative designer.

My final solo project is focusing on a natural material "Tong Cao", a plant that is native to Taiwan. From understanding the properties and the historical uses of the material to coming up with new manufacturing techniques with a wide range of new applications for local industry economics.