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Serah Siew / 萧思玉

Branding Designer • Creative Director • Visual Strategist • Contemporary Artist

Based in Malaysia • Working across Singapore and Asia

Branding designer, graphic designer, creative director, visual strategist, and contemporary artist.

Serah Siew / 萧思玉, previously known online as Shiyu Serah, builds premium identities and cultural narratives for brands, institutions, and audiences that value clarity, sophistication, and long-term distinction.

Working at the intersection of branding, art, editorial aesthetics, and strategic communication, she translates complex ideas into refined visual systems that feel emotionally resonant, commercially intelligent, and culturally grounded.

Her work spans brand identity, creative direction, exhibition branding, cultural campaigns, spatial experiences, and multidisciplinary art practice — with projects developed across Malaysia, Singapore, and the wider Asian creative landscape.

As a cultural branding specialist and brand identity designer, her approach combines premium brand strategy, visual identity system thinking, and art direction to build work that feels regionally nuanced and internationally credible.

Serah is the founder of Tiny Art Gala, Malaysia’s largest mini art exhibition, and the founder of HummingDe Consultancy, where she advises governments, embassies, luxury developers, and high-impact entrepreneurs on premium visual positioning, strategic storytelling, and culturally fluent brand leadership.

Her practice is defined by cultural intelligence, editorial discipline, and visual precision, creating work that is not only memorable in the moment, but authoritative over time.

Practice

Serah’s body of work brings together strategic branding, creative direction, contemporary art, exhibition thinking, and editorial visual culture. The result is a multidisciplinary practice built for brands and institutions that want to lead with intelligence rather than noise.

  • Brand Identity & Visual Systems
  • Creative Direction & Art Direction
  • Luxury Branding & Editorial Aesthetics
  • Exhibition Branding & Cultural Campaigns
  • Multidisciplinary Art & Visual Storytelling

Company

  • 2023 – HummingDe Consultancy (Founder)
  • 2023 – Serah Arttrie, Founder, Art Director
  • 2016-2022 – Windsly Design, Founder, Art Director

Organiser Chairman

  • 2025 – Tiny Art Gala Organiser Chairman (Malaysia Book of Record)
  • 2021 – Junior Chamber International KL (JCIKL), Organiser Chairman (Malaysia Book of Record)

Awards

  • 2025 – Malaysia Book Of Record – Malaysia Largest Mini Artwork Exhibition
  • 2022 – Malaysia Intellectual Property Elites 2022 Award
  • 2021 – Most Inspiring JCI Rise Project 2021
  • 2021 – Malaysia Book Of Record (The Biggest 3D Perceptual Art Using Plastic Bottles)
  • 2021 – Artist Of The Year (Top 100 Talent Awards 2021 by Tourism Malaysia, MOTAC, FINAS & MFMPA)
  • 2021 – JCI KL Most Outstanding Project Award 2021

Conferences/ Guest Speaker

  • 2023 – Guest Speaker, TusStar Malaysia Incubator
  • 2022 – Guest Speaker, Alibaba Cloud, Malaysia
  • 2022 – Guest Speaker, Asia Pacific University, Malaysia
  • 2022 – Guest Speaker, Global Youth Summit, PWTC, Malaysia
  • 2022 – Speaker, Beans Depot Cafe, Malaysia

Assessor

  • 2019 – IHM College Final Year Students Assessments
  • 2018 – IHM College Final Year Students Assessments
  • 2017 – IHM College Final Year Students Assessments

Solo Art Exhibition

  • 2022 – Harmony NFT Series, Beans Depot, Selangor, Malaysia

Group Art Exhibition

  • 2025 – Tiny Art Gala
  • 2021 – “Stay Strong, Spread the Love”, Paradigm Mall PJ
  • 2018 – Group Art Exhibition, Pasar Old Malaya Restaurant
  • 2012 – Slow Down, Enjoy The Moment, Sungai Wang

Associations

  • 2025 – Tiny Art Gala Organiser Chairperson
  • 2024 – PNM Malaysia
  • 2021 – Junior Chamber International KL (JCIKL), Organiser Chairman (2021)
  • 2016 – Business Network International (BNI), Secretary Treasurer (2016-2017)

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