The artist and visual designer Yang Liu was born in China and lives in Germany since she was 14. By growing up in two very different places with very different traditions she was able to experience the differences between the two cultures first-hand. Drawing from her own experience Yang Liu created minimalistic visualizations using simple symbols and shapes to convey just how different the two cultures are.
The blue siderepresents Germany (or western culture) and the red side represents China (or eastern culture)

Yang Liu born in Beijing, since 1990 in Germany. She studied at UWE at Bristol, UK and gradueted with Master degree from University of Arts Berlin, with Prof. Holger Matthies, she has worked with Derek Birdsall, Thomas Manss London and Berlin, with Chermayeff & Geismar New York, since 2004 she has established Yang Liu Design in Berlin. Since 2010 Yang Liu is professor and the head of the department of communications design at the Berlin Technical Art University.

Awards
2000 German prize for commuications design 2000, the award for high design quality
2002 The bronze medal on the 18th International poster biennal in Warszaw
100 best posters 2001 from Germany, Austria and Switzerland
“red-dot” International award for communications design 2002, for highest design quality
2003 “Type of Execellence” type director´s Club New York, USA
2004 “red-dot” International award for communications design 2003, for high design quality
2005 100 best posters 2004 from Germany, Austria and Switzerland
2006 “red-dot” International award for communications design 2005, for high design quality
bronze medal on the 9th International poster biennal in Mexico for political posters
2007 Red Dot Award for bookdesign
2008 Bundesdeutschen Designpreis, State Prize for Design of Germany 2008
Gold Prize at the Art Directorsclub Germany & Gold Prize at the Lead Award
2009 State Prize "The most beautiful book of China 2009"
State prize for CI system for China as Land of Honor on the Frankfurt Bookfair 2009
2010 red dot award, International award for communications design, for high design quality
2011 red dot award, International award for communications design, for high design quality
2012 Winner at German design Award

Exhibitions
Several solo and group exhibitions in Germany, USA, Japan, Mexico, Finland, China,
Czech Republic, Slovakia, French, Poland and Iran in both Galleries and Museums,
including the Poster Museum Willanow Poland, Postermuseum Essen, Museum for Arts and
Crafts Hamburg, Poster Museum Lathi Finland, Taiwan Poster Association, Heritage
Museum Hong Kong, DDD-Galery Osaka, Japan, Design Center Nordrhein-Westfalen,
Pepsi Co Art Collection, Bosch Collection, VW Art collection.