Yiying Lu is an award-winning designer and artist. Her projects have been featured in the New York Times, Forbes, The Atlantic, NBC News, TIME, Wired Magazine, The Verge, CNN, BBC, San Francisco Chronicle, TechCrunch, Mashable, Engadget, The Huffington Post, and so on.
Yiying is the Creative Director of 500 Startups, the world’s most active venture capital firm and startup accelerator. She has also worked as a creative advisor and designer for Disney, Microsoft, SXSW, Twitter, PepsiCo, Sony, Scholastic, Maybelline, Expedia, and so on.
Yiying was named a “Top 10 Emerging Leader in Innovation” in the Microsoft Next 100 series. She is also the recipient of a Shorty Award, The One Show Award, and “Best of China” award from the Cannes Advertising Festival.