Trajan JIA is now represented by JSR AGENCY and presents us his latest works for BVLGARI ROSE Goddess, ROCKING ZOO, ESTEE LAUDER and STARBUCKS Reserve Shops 2020-2021. “Trajan is a renowned and experienced illustrator and designer from China, presently active in London. He has worked extensively in London as a visual designer and illustrator for more than eight years, realizing several successful projects within, or related to, the Chinese market, and is passionate about developing Eastern aesthetics within modern brands and commercial spaces. His dream is to bring a reimagined, redesigned and redecorated lifestyle to each customer.”
An education in traditional Chinese painting, Western and Eastern literature, history and political culture have had a formative influence on his concise multicultural style. Growing up in a special Chinese factory community, the massive architectural framework and comparatively small personal living space serve as the inspiration for his artwork. Various forms of graphic art such as silkscreen print, drawing by hand and embroidery mindfully record the details of these changing times – the narrative story of the urban community and the gently disappearing public living space.
He graduated from the China Academy of Art with a BA in 2011 and then continued at UAL’s Chelsea College of Art and Design. His work as an artist began with his final theses on the collective memory of the Chinese urban community, and he created a series of illustrations and illustrated book designs based on this study. To distance himself from an otherwise reality-driven narrative style, his works present arbitrary and magical traces of human destinies against the backdrop of an architectural framework no longer intact.
More by Trajan JIA is available via JSR AGENCY.