Hello! My Name is Xinyuan(Caesar) Li
(e) xycaesarcreative@gmail.com
(p) +61 414 101 205
Please contact me via email if you have any design demand/enquiry or would like to collaborate.
(e) xycaesarcreative@gmail.com
(p) +61 414 101 205
Please contact me via email if you have any design demand/enquiry or would like to collaborate.
Bio
Xinyuan (Caesar) Li is a designer, researcher and artist born in China and based in Melbourne. He is currently a PhD candidate at RMIT University. His practice examines typography as a critical and cultural form that reflects personal experience, identity, culture and history, especially in Chinese-Australian contexts. Drawing on historical materials, he seeks to generate new narratives and interventions. With a focus on cross-cultural design, his work has been exhibited at Melbourne Design Week (2024–2025) and continues to explore how language and design intersect in contemporary society.
References and CV are available upon request.
Awards
Award 360° Annual Design Award, 2025
Experimental Design of the Year, BEST 100 Award
ABDA (Australian Book Designers Association) Awards, 2025
Best Designed Small-Run Book, Shortlist
Award 360° Annual Design Award, 2024
Best Poster of the Year, Shortlist
AGDA Awards, 2024
Design Crafts: Typography for Design - Finalist
Design for Good: Social & Community - Finalist
New York TDC 70th, 2024
Typographic of Excellence
Award360° Annual Design Award, 2023
Shortlist
Tokyo TDC, 2023
Excellent Work
D&AD New Blood Portfolios Competition, 2023
Winner
‘开卷(Open the Book)’ Henan Book Exhibition, 2023
Silver Award
State Library of Victoria Marion Orme Page Regional Fellowship, 2022
(Research Assistant/Art Collaborator)
AGDA Awards 2022:
Student Publication (Full Book) - Finalist
Student Design Crafts - Finalist
Student Print - Finalist
ABDA Awards 2022:
Best Student Designed Book - Longlist
Exhibition
ORIENT & RE-ORIENT, NGV Melbourne Art Book Fair, 2026
Wayzfinding, Melbourne Design Week, 2026
Does ornamental typography prioritise aesthetics over substance?, Intermediary for Melbourne Art Book Fair, Oddany Gallery, 2026
Fusion of Forms, CAVES Gallery, for NGV Melbourne Design Week, 2025
Design 360° Design Festival, Hang Zhou, China, 2025
Contemporary Crafting: A Retelling of Tradition, RedDot Design museum, Xiamen, 2025
AND THE WORD WAS GOD(神), NGV Melbourne Design Week, 2024
Reminiscence, RED Gallery, 2024
70th New York TDC Winner World Exhibition, 2024
Melbourne Art Book Fair, 2024
Design 360° Design Festival, Hang Zhou, China, 2024
Design360° Design Festival, Hang Zhou, China, 2023
D&AD New Blood Festival, 2023
acb Beijing Art Book Fair, 2023
UNFOLD Shanghai Art Book Fair, 2023
‘开卷(Open the Book)’ Henan Book Exhibition, 2023
(By Henan Art Museum)
Workshops & Lectures
Stories in Things, with Haocheng Zhang and Jing Liang, Dancehouse, 2024
RISO Workshop for Master of Communication Design (MCD) at RMIT, 2024
My Journey on the Cross-Cultural Typography and Type Design for Experimental Typography class for MCD at RMIT University, 2024
Designing within Multi-Cultures: Intentions and Possible Solutions, Guest Speaker for Mesoscale Discussion #4 at MCD, 2023
D&AD APAC Creative Series #5, 2023
Open Studio, Public presentation of research on Celestial Roots, State Library Victoira, 2022
Selected Writing
Does ornamental typography prioritise aesthetics over substance?, Intermediary, Issue 1, 2026
Chop-Suey Typefaces in the Victorian Gold Rush Era: Typography as a Cultural Form Unravelling Chinese-Australian Identities, RMIT Design Archives Journal, Vol 15.2 2025.
Interview
Listen Carefully, Blindside, 2024
Art Residency
RMIT-ACMI X Residency, 2026
Run Artist Run, 2024
Scholarship
Foundations of Display Type Design,
Type Electives, 2023
Crash Course in Revival Type Design,
Type Electives, 2023
Education
PhD (Design) Candidate
RMIT University
2025 – Current
Master of Communication Design
RMIT University
GPA: 3.9/4
Feb. 2021 – Dec. 2022
Bachelor of Business
Monash University
Jul. 2017 – Dec. 2019
Selected Clients
Melbourne Art Book Fair, RMIT University, ACCA (Australian Centre for Contemporary Art), Melbourne Art Fair, Golden Dragon Museum, La Trobe Art Institute, Caves Gallery, 3-PLY publisher, Hyphenated Projects, Heliotrope Architecture Studio, North Melbourne Photo Festival, Artist Rohan Hutchinson...
Volunteer
ACCA( Australian Centre for Contemporary Art)
Mar. 2023 - Now
CAVES Gallery
Jun. 2023 - Now
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