As a lighting designer who has been engaged in lighting industry for 30 years, Carry Yu's experience of lighting design covers  five-star hotels to hot spring resorts, from the snowy north to the southern coast, where he has contributed significant lighting design works to the world. As General Manager & Design Director of CSLC International Lighting Consultant Co., Ltd. , Carry Yu's design philosophy is give light an organic form and realize the ideal of a space with our heart, carrying the story of people's lives. Through his creativity, wisdom and efforts, Carry Yu hopes to add warmth and intrigue to the space for which he designs lighting.

Unlike many other lighting designers, Carry Yu started his career in the lighting manufacturing industry. Due to his in-depth understanding of all aspects of lighting manufacturing and accurate control over the selection of lighting, he always has a clear understanding of the final effect presented in the design process, which makes him stand out among many young designers and join the most famous lighting consultant in Asia. Carry Yu was exposed to the most cutting-edge concepts and technologies in the industry, and worked on top hotel projects with the best teams in Asia Pacific.

In 2010, Carry Yu set up his own lighting design company, CSLC International Lighting Consultant Co., Ltd., with its head office in Chongqing. CSLC provides space and landscape lighting design and solutions for the world’s most exclusive hotels, luxury villas, art museums, top grade clubs, large shopping centers and commercial centers ect. Hotel Group: Lamborghini, Marriott, Hilton, Radisson, Himalayas, Wyndham , Kadakais etc., as well as Xiamen Garden Expo Park and Luo Zhongli Art Museum.

In mid 2021, Radisson Collection Resort Hotel Nanjing in Jiangsu Garden Expo Park completed and officially opened their doors to guests, becoming the first Radisson Collection Resort Hotel in Asia Pacific for the new project, and representing a new level for luxury hotels in Nanjing. The hotel's architectural design is inspired by its particularly beautiful environment: a tranquil garden surrounded by pines, cypresses, hot springs and green hills. The hotel's architecture is as clear and dynamic as flowing water, and the striking glass curtain wall allows natural light and scenery to flood into the interior, blurring the boundary between architecture and nature and giving the hotel an easeful sense of natural rejuvenation [figure 2].

CSLC designed the lighting for this hotel. The concept of lighting design follow the architecture and the interior design to further integrate the elements of Nanjing Yun brocade to show the flowery Jinling. The lighting designers here have used lighting to show the cultural characteristics of Nanjing Yun brocade, and the interplay between the lighting and interior decor adds to the beauty of the building’s design and craftsmanship.

Carry Yu believes that the design logic of hotel lighting has three levels: first is the hotel's general lighting; the second is to convey the hotel's brand texture; the third is to touch the customer's heart with lighting. And these three levels of lighting design have been embodied in Radisson Collection Resort Hotel Nanjing. CSLC committed to use lighting to interpret the noble and elegant temperament of the hotel. The colors, decorations, quality and lighting are all in harmony, perfectly integrating the world's intangible cultural heritage - Nanjing Yun brocade into every space. In this case, the lighting is not only shaping the hotel space, but also interpreting the beautiful Nanjing[figure 4].

Carry believes all human living spaces touched by light are the vehicle and source of CSLC's commitment to improve and create their specific light environment. They focus on creating and enhancing the lighting environment of human living spaces, giving new life to their specific architectural forms and artistic styles with creative and vibrant light.

In 2022, the book "Hotel Lighting Design" edited by Carry Yu himself was officially published[8]. In this book, Carry Yu focus on the actual use of lighting design in the hotel, talks about the relationship between design inspiration and the final effect, and analyzes hotel lighting design from the perspective of all light-related technology. He interpret the design method elaborately with Five different classic hotel types, and 9 function space from every lighting design stage to control system, giving a logical and practical explanation of hotel design from the whole to details with plenty of project cases[9]. At the end of the book, Carry Yu put forward the relationship between light and art, ecology, technology, society, giving a thoughtful and in-depth explanation of hotel lighting design. He said: Lighting design is respecting architectural qualities, moving everything with plotted light".