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