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Carl is the founder of brand Carl Liu. He is a well-known Chinese industrial designer and currently works as a partner/design director of Idea Dao Design Shanghai. He earned his design degree from the world-famous design school Art Center College of Design in US and Switzerland. Later he worked at the award-wining design studio Astro and Motorola advance concept design group total for almost seven years before he moved to China. He also tough a drawing class at CCA during his stay in the U.S. Carl’s signature designs included Compaq iPaq PDA, Nike running watch Triax 300 and Triax 50. These products had been sold millions and won international awards like G-Mark, IDSA and I.D Magazine. His designs have demonstrated that good design matters to successful business.

Carl is enthusiastic about elevating the design level in Asia. He has published two design books Carl Liu Design Book and Innovative Product Design Practice since 2005. His books have influenced students and designers world wide. They has become textbooks for many design schools and universities. Due to the impact of his design philosophy and sketching technics, he gets invitation for workshop and talk all the time from different countries. He is also frequent invited as jury member of international design awards. The most recent one is iF concept award in Germany.

Carl loves to design. He establish his own design brand Carl Liu as a design platform for talent designers to join and share experience. His belief of Carl Liu is a brand of creative living and quality lifestyle.  Green thinking is also one of the major criteria when Carl works on new creations. So far He has grain over eighty design patents.

Carl为Carl Liu品牌的创始人，现任为艺有道产品设计公司设计总监，国际知名华人设计师，在美国和瑞士顶尖的设计学院ArtCenter研读和CCA教授设计，长期在美国从事产品设计工作，任职于设计顾问公司和国际知名企业，其设计的产品Compaq ipaq, Nike Triax 300 和Triax 50等代表作品享誉全球，成功地创造了全球产品的销售热潮，成为以设计提升产品价值的最佳典范，并数次赢得设计大奖，如日本G-Mark, 美国IDSA以及I.D Magazine等荣誉。

Carl对于提升产品设计不遗余力，2005年之后Carl将积累的经验巨细靡遗整理成册，于全球发行Carl Liu Design Book, 及Innovative Product Design Practice，此两本书深刻地影响着全球产品设计界，成为业界设计师的必读的圣典和设计院校的教科书，发行5年之后的今天，许多国内外设计师的设计图都显示出受Carl设计风格的影响。至今Carl每年不断地受邀至国内外知名企业以及大学演讲及授课，并数次担任设计大赛评委，如德国iF设计大奖。

由于对产品设计的热忱，Carl于2006年创办Carl Liu设计品牌，期望为设计师开创一个创意产品开发的平台，其品牌宗旨为以有价值的产品创新提升人们长远的生活品质，并和环境达成舒适的和谐，其顶尖的创意设计已经陆续取得80多项设计专利