Mel Hsieh

Creative Director and Visual Artist in New York

Mel Hsieh

Creative Director and Visual Artist in New York

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Mel is a Creative Director and a Video Artist who constantly looking for avenues of expression that combine new media and moving image. At age 17, Mel was nominated for the award of British Young Designer of the year (2005). He graduated from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London (2009) and won 1st prize winner for the D&AD student Awards in their Music Video category. He got involved in making music videos, participated in MTV channel idents and was officially selected and screened at Adobe Design Achievement Awards, D&AD New Blood Talent and Rushes Soho Short Festival, etc. Mel received his SVA Paula Rhodes Memorial Award for Exceptional Achievement in MFA Computer Art at School of Visual Art (2015) and student winner of Red Dot Awards in their Film Art category. His film “iNTERFACE” has won numerous of international awards and continues to screen at art and film festivals world wide such as Scope Art Miami, Animaze Daze: Annecy, London Show International Film Festival, Visionaria Festival and Bogatá Experimental Film Festival, etc. Mel continues to expand his animation vocabulary with American Digital Artist, Lillian F. Schwartz (1927) to corporate on a short animated film “Pangloss”. He now works as an independent moving image artist and the founder of AniMel Studio to corporates in the music and fashion industry such as VT Art Salon, Legacy Taipei, Manda Works, Cedric Elisabeth, Crossline, Chiehms and S’CABONATE. His works related to subjects of Identity and body, phenomenology surrealism and lucid dream as representation of reality that animation could facilitate a film-taking place within the mind. His website is melhsieh.com

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    • AniMel Studio