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Fang HU

LECTURER IN DESIGN AND ART, CHINA ACADEMY OF ART

FOUNDER OF ATELIER FANG 

Fang is a senior lecturer at The School of Design and Art, China Academy of Art. One stream of her research focuses on both food and identity within gastronomy as well as the eating culture practice through the perspective of Designer and design educator. In late 2015 and together with CAA fellow students and co-workers, Fang has launched “ChiTofu” Interdisciplinary Experimental Design Program. Atelier Fang, the pioneer food-centered design studio, is founded in 2016 in Hangzhou.

Fang is an aspiring art designer who earned her Diplom-Designerin of Product Design from Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany and received a Bachelor of Industrial Design Engineering from Zhejiang University, China. She was nominated for the “Designpreise” in the final year of graduation from Bauhaus and awarded a recorded interview with “MDR Rundfunk Channel” in Germany.

 

JUL 13, 2018

  • 📝ARTICLE: Blurring the boundary between Design and intermedium Art
  • published in Art News of China, online version

JUN 29, 2018 @China Academy of Art, Hangzhou

  • 🎨TEACH: Food-based Design (Section 2)  Redesign the specialty for different Regions
  • open Presentation of a two-week Elective Courses in Design with 24 students of different art-education background

JUN 26, 2018 @Hangzhou

  • 🎙TALK: Chitofu - Plant-based Design (En)
  • International Food Education Innovation Forum with Food Innovation Program from Italy
  • organized by Food Talk, Chinese Food-Education Advocates

JUN 15, 2018 @China Academy of Art, Hangzhou

  • 🎨TEACH: Food-based Design (Section 1) Can you can a can?
  • open presentation of a two-week Elective Courses in Design with 24 students of different art-education background

JUN, 2018 Atelier Fang

  • 🔗COMMERCIAL CASE: New Tea Set 
  • Product Design, Client: Phiphy Homeware

JUN, 2018 Atelier Fang

  • 🔗COMMERCIAL CASE: New Package Design for Three Farms Steak House
  • Packaging Design, Client: Lily's Cook

MAY 17, 2018 @UC Berkeley Blum Center, USA

  • 🎙TALK: Food Culture Through Design (En)
  • FoodInno Symposium 2018, Connected Food Futures 

MAY, 2018 Atelier Fang

  • 🔗COMMERCIAL CASE: New take-out solution for 21 Days Beef bowl
  • Packaging Design, Client: Lily's Cook

MAR 26, 2018

  • 📝ARTICLE: The Taste of Air
  • published in Art News of China, Vol.104

MAR, 2018 Atelier Fang

  • 🔗COMMERCIAL CASE: New Spice Jar Shelf
  • Product Design, Client: Phiphy Homeware

JAN 19, 2018 @China Academy of Art

  • 🎨TEACH: Fast and Slow Food, the system and the space
  • Open Presentation of a five-week-project with 25 third-year-undergraduate-students in Product Design

2017

NOV 25, 2017 @Hangzhou

  • 🎙TALK: Edible Design
  • Zhejiang Provincial Health Smart Kitchen Integrated System Key Laboratory: Development Planning and Academic Exchange Conference

OCT 16, 2017 @China Academy of Art, Hangzhou

  • 🎨TEACH: Creative Food Cart —— from the traditional street food to the Contemporary
  • Open Presentation of a three-week-project with 26 fourth-year-undergraduate-students in Product Design

OCT, 2017 Atelier Fang

  • 🔗COMMERCIAL CASE: Packaging Design for Soy Drink
  • Packaging design, Client: Hongguang

SEP 23, 2017 @ArcheX, Shanghai

  • 🎙TALK: Edible Design
  • X-feast Vol.2 What Designers can do in the food field, hosted by ArcheX

JUN 22, 2017 @Hangzhou

  • 🎙TALK: Chitofu - Interdisciplinary Experimental Design Program
  • The art of design in life: Women designers in eating, clothing and living

JUN 17-18, 2017 @Hangzhou

  • 🎭INSTALLATION and WORKSHOP: Chitofu 2017 Vol.3: Natural Dyeing Tofu Skin
  • We designed and hosted a workshop to offering a new experience of tofu-skin-Making
  • for the Opening Party of Yonyeh's first store and Yench'a, Client: ShiZhongShanJu

JUN 11-12, 2017 @Graduation Show in China Academy of Art, Hangzhou

  • 🎨INSTALLATION and WORKSHOP: Chitofu 2017 Vol.2: Plant-based Protein Coagulation LAB
  • A live experience of using different elements to make silk Tofu with different flavors
  • A graduation work by Chenyu Qian and Bingdie Huang, instructor: Fang HU and Jin TIAN

MAY, 2017 Atelier Fang

  • 🔗COMMERCIAL CASE: New Beverage Product Launching in the Market: Oats Drinks
  • Packaging design, Client: Ganqishi

MAR 25, 2017 @Hangzhou

  • 🎙TALK: Edible Design
  • Food Talk Forum Vol.15, Food Innovations

FEB 25-26, 2017 @PARTEA of imagokinetics, Hangzhou

  • 🎭FOOD DESIGN EXHIBITION: Chitofu 2017 Vol.1: Eat What tofu
  • We curated and hosted a two-day live Food Design Exhibition to discuss about if our desire can be measured, or is Tofu Sexy?
  • Cooperated with 4 Pastries and 2 Chefs, we offered 6 bean-based dessert and 6 tofu dishes. 

JAN, 2017 Atelier Fang

    • 🔗COMMERCIAL CASE: Redesigning the Interior of a Cook School
    • Branding Consult and Design, Client: Ganqishi 

    2016

    DEC, 2016 Atelier Fang

    • 🔗COMMERCIAL CASE: PR Activitiy in Shanghai Xiwai International School
    • Display Design for PR activities, Client: Ganqishi

    NOV 16, 2016 @China Academy of Art, Hangzhou

    • 🎭EVENT: Bauhaus Lunch - Paul Klee
    • we curated and hosted a lunch during the 2016 IACBI Annul Conference to open the Bauhaus and Modern Design International Seminar

    OCT, 2016 Atelier Fang

    • 🔗COMMERCIAL CASE: Brand brochure published
    • Branding Consult and Design, Client: Ganqishi

    SEP 20-22, 2016 @Fair interior-lifestyle China, Shanghai

    • EXHIBITOR: Chitofu with Tofu Lady
    • You Look delicious, curated by Qing GU

    AUG & SEP, 2016 Atelier Fang

    • 🔗COMMERCIAL CASE: New Beverage Product Launching in the Market: Plum Syrup and Soymilk
    • Packaging design and Promotion design , Client: Ganqishi

    JUL, 2016 Atelier Fang

    • 🔗COMMERCIAL CASE: TEA Pot
    • Product Design, Client: Phiphy Homeware

    JUN, 2016 @Graduation Show in China Academy of Art, Hangzhou

    • 🎨INSTALLATION and WORKSHOP/first launch: Tofu Drink
    • A wood installation presents the whole process of Tofu-Pudding-making.
    • A graduation work by Xijing Xu and Tian WU, instructor: Fang HU and Jin TIAN 
    • later exhibited in Beijing 2016, in Milano and Osaka 2018.

    JAN 9, 2016 @Xixi Paradise Art Center, Hangzhou

    • 🎙Forum TALK with Tom TONG and Min CHEN: FOOD - Design and Innovation
    • EXHIBITOR: Chitofu with Tofu Lady

    • food carnival organized by Food Talk Forum

    2015

    DEC 2, 2015 @Henglu Art Museum, Hangzhou

    • CATERING: Chitofu with Tofu Lady
    • traditional Chinese painter Kefeng Hu 's Solo Exhibition: Opening Party and Artist Meeting 

    NOV 28, 2015 @Xixi Paradise Art Center, Hangzhou

    • CATERING/first launch: Chitofu with Tofu Lady
    • Food Talk Vol.7, in the Kitchen

    AUG 20, 2015 @imagokinetics, Hangzhou

    • 🎭Invited as Designer to cook for 20 guests with JESSIE for LUNAR RESTAURANT
    • Lunar Restaurant Vol.23, organized by imagokinetics