About

The brief history of Mr. Joshua Chao.

Mr. Joshua Chao is an international design awards winner in multiple disciplines. His product design “ChaCha” won the Good Design Award (Japan) in 2015, toy design “Bud” was selected and exhibited by the iF Design Award (Germany) in 2011, digital board game “Dot” won the Red Dot Award (Germany) in 2010, and interactive installation “Mad Evolution” won the award from ACM SIGGRAPH (USA) in 2009.

In 2010, he was graduated from the Department of Communications Design in Shih-Chien University in Taiwan (Bloomberg Bussinessweek 2007: Best 60 Design school).

 

In 2011, he joined the Modern Media Group in Shanghai (China) as an Animation Designer in the television department, and took charge of not only the storyboard design of television program openings and company showreels, but also the Bloomberg Businessweek magazine China edition launch show video.

 

In 2012, he joined Fludot Co. in Taipei (Taiwan) as a Game Designer and Multimedia Artist of “P.R.O.B.E.” the science-fiction puzzle game, which contains two hundred brain-bending levels and rich vocal performance, and “Turbo Snail” the paper-cutting and cartoon style action game for children, which features the gyroscope-based control of character’s actions.

 

In 2014, he joined the Saosis Communications in Beijing (China) as a Multimedia Director to lead the user behavior research team, the information architecture team and the usability evaluation report team. He also directed UI/UX design teams of ICBC (Industrial and Commercial Bank of China) H-Club smartphone service app and online mall app (Both iOS and Android platforms), and a consultant of ICBC H-Club promotion app for iPad and mobile website development.

 

In 2015, he created the eco-friendly household product “ChaCha”, which won the Good Design Award (Japan) and was exhibited in Tokyo Midtown during Tokyo Design Week, and was exhibited again in early 2016 in Good Design Marunouchi. He wishes this design can make the natural and powerful detergent a lot easier for people to utilize, more acceptable by society, and eventually make the world a better place.

 

In 2016, he joined KKBOX Group in Taipei (Taiwan) as a Creative Director, to establish branding guidelines for KKTV (BU of KKBOX Group) and create visual packages for KKTV (BU of KKBOX Group) and KKFARM (BU of KKBOX Group) contents.

 

 

Mr. Joshua Chao uses the title “JC&D” as the collective name of all of his design works as well as his design studio. The logogram of ampersand “&” in the title represents the idea of “conjunction” between multiple design disciplines, which implies that he is a multi-disciplinary designer. In the URL of this website, the logogram of ampersand “&” is replaced by the letter “n”—instead of “et”—in order to maximally shorten the URL, which is based on the example of “rock & roll” is often written as “rock ’n’ roll”.

 

“From the balletic movement of sub-atomic particles to the waltzing collision of galaxies, the ingenuity of design is everywhere in our universe and it accomplishes everything. It’s my honor to do design along with such an enchanting knowledge full of wisdom and mercy.” — Mr. Joshua Chao