Yiying Lu

San Francisco Bay Area United States

Bilingual TEDx Speaker | Global Educator & Practitioner on Cross-Cultural Design, Branding & Innovation | Artist of 🥟🥡🥠🥢🦚 & Boba Emojis

Design

Born in Shanghai China, educated in Sydney Australia and London UK, currently based in San Francisco, Yiying Lu is an award-winning artist, entrepreneur, educator. She was named one of the Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business. Yiying speaks internationally on Cross-Cultural Design, Creativity & Innovation in both English & Chinese. She has created iconic art for brands like Disney & Microsoft, and built brands for hundreds of tech startups during her time as a creative director at 500 Startups. Yiying is also the artist behind the 🥟Dumpling Emoji, Twitter “Fail Whale”, Conan O'Brien Pale Whale, and the Chinese paper-cut style Mickey Mouse for Disneyland Shanghai.