Tianjian Cui—Assistant Professor and Master's Supervisor of Department of Design
Biography
Tianjian Cui, assistant professor and Master's supervisor of School of Arts, Southeast University, was born in Nantong, Jiangsu Province.
Administrative Post: Associate Dean of School of Arts, Southeast University
He was voted the top ten educators of industrial design, and one of the academic leaders of universities in Jiangsu Province.
Education
B.A. (Department of Industrial Design, Wuxi University of Light Industry (now School of Design, Jiangnan University), 1991-1995.
Major: Industrial Design
M.A. (Department of Arts, Southeast University), 1999-2002.
Major: Art Studies
Research Interests
Science of Design, Industrial Design, Theory and Method of Art and Design
(Product and Interaction Design, Visual and Information Design, Environment and Landscape Design)
Research Achievements
Took charge of over 30 research projects: respectively the national, ministerial, provincial social science fund projects, internationally collaborated projects, as well as enterprise Industry-University-Research projects.
Published 9 monographs and textbooks as well as over 50 papers.
Obtaining more than 200 national patents on appearance design.
Representative Achievements
1)Principal Investigator, “Research on the Homology of Art Design and Game.” Jiangsu Province Social Science Fund.
Principal Investigator, “Research on the Strategies of Promoting the Deep Integration of Industrialization and Informatization in Industrial Design.” Special Project of Industrial Design under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. Principal Investigator, “Chinese Life.” Internationally collaborated research project, funded byResearch Grants Council (Hong Kong).
Principal Investigator, “Shuping Hao, Master of Chinese Arts and Crafts: Sichuan Embroidery.” National Publishing Fund.
Co-Investigator, “Research on the Development Strategy of Innovative Design.” Major consulting and research project of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
2)Selected Publications
Books: Ideology and Method of Contemporary Industrial Design. Southeast University Press, 2014. Shuping Hao, Master of Chinese Arts and Crafts: Sichuan Embroidery. Jiangsu Fine Arts Publishing House, 2013.
Product Form Design. Jiangsu Fine Arts Publishing House. 2008.
Papers:
The Formal Meaning of Modern Design. Hundred Schools in Arts. No. 4, 2013.
“Modern Design: Game of Art.” Journal of Southeast University (Social Science Edition). No. 1, 2011.
“Flat Research of Contemporary Interaction Design.” Packaging Engineering. No. 18, 2014.
“Viewing Industrial Product Design from the Perspective of Culturology of the Art.” Decoration. No. 8, 2005.
3)Took charge of and completed a series of Enterprises and Institutions Cooperative Projects:“Appearance Design of Vehicle Verified by Velocity Meter.”
Jiangsu Province Water Conservancy Department Project.
“Design of Sculpture in the Heroes Bridge Landscape Belt.” Nanchang City Sculpture Project. Appearance Design of Sichuan Province sports lottery sales station and Haoyue electronic instrument products.
UI design of Putian Telege products.
Product planning of sliding doors series and research on color trends.
Appearance design of Jiangsu Provincial Party School, Jiangsu Administrative College, Jiangsu Consumer Rights and Interests Protection Association, Nanjing No.1 Hospital, Nanjing Yuhua Stone Art Festival, Nanjing Reading Festival and so forth.