Jobs
- Facebook & Instagram, Menlo Park, NYC, Creative Strategy, May, 2011 – Present
- Google, NYC, Creative Director, 2008 – 2011
- Droga5, NYC, Creative Director, 2006 – 2008
- Saatchi & Saatchi, NYC, Art Director, 1999 – 2003
- Tsang Seymour Design, NYC, Designer, 1997 – 1998
- Frankfurt Balkind Partners, NYC, Designer, 1995 – 1996
Press
- Fast Company, 50 Most Influential Designers in America
- ABC World News, The Bubble Project
- Huffpost Live, The Man Behind Mysterabbit
- Huffington Post, Mysterabbit: Public Art Project Leaves 10,000 Tiny Bunnies In Cities Across The World
- Huffington Post, Hero Street Artist Puts Clown Noses On All Those Ads You Absolutely Hate
- The LA Times, Every Writer’s Nightmare: The Wordless Web.
- Wired Magazine, Designers Rejoice! A Plugin That Nukes All Texts from Web Pages.
- The Guardian, Your Words in Their Mouths
- Oprah Magazine, The 3-D Alphabet Way of Seeing the World
- Wired Magazine, Behind the Memes: Ji Lee, Bubble Project Media Jammer
- Wired Magazine, Univers Revolved
- Fast Company, Save the Twin Towers. Ji Lee Preserves WTC.
- Fast Company, Ji Lee Whips Up The Wordless Web
- Fast Company, Google Exec’s Hobby: Installing Tiny Dioramas on Empty Ceilings
- Fast Company, Check Out The Alphabet, Redrawn By Spinning Letters Into 3-D
- Huffington Post, The Most Accurate Watch In The World (And It’s Not The Apple Watch)
- Korea Times, Korean born artist challenges stereotype
- Fubiz, Word as Image
- D&AD, One Minute to Leave Your Mark
- Creativity, Word as Image
- Isto é Dinheiro, Coreano de Alma Brasileira Dá Uma Nova Cara da Empresa no Mundo
- AIGA, The Bubble Project
- Creative Magazine, Ji Lee on working in a bubble
Books with Ji’s Work
- Trespass, A History of Uncommissioned Urban Art, Marc and Sarah Schiller, Taschen
- Making Ideas Happen, Scott Belsky, Penguin
- The Art of Rebellion III, Ginko Press
- Becoming a Graphic Designer, Steven Heller, Teresa Fernandes, Wiley Publishers
- Precursor: The Creative Watchlist, Gestalten
- Overcoming Creative Block, Alex Cornell, Princeton Architectural Press
- Graphic: Inside The Sketchbooks of World’s Great Graphic Designers, Steven Heller, Lita Talirico, Thames & Hudson
- Urban Interventions: Personal Projects in Public Spaces, R Klanten, M Hubner, Gestalten
- Graphic Design: Now in Production, Andrew Blauvelt and Ellen Lupton, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
- The 3D Type Book, Fl@33, Laurence King Publishing
Education
- Parsons School of Design, BFA in Communication Design, New York
Speaking
- 99% Conference, New York
- Creative Mornings by Swiss-Miss, New York
- MIT, Roflcon, Cambridge
- MIT, Future of Entertainment Conference, Cambridge
- MoMA, Public Art for Youth, New York
- The Guggenheim Museum, Thinking Like an Artist Conference, New York
- Harvard University, Cyber Activism and Culture Jamming, Cambridge
- Stanford University, Ideas for a Better Internet Summit, Stanford
- Columbia University, Creative Technologies Symposium, New York
- Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Guest Lecturer, Boston
- Seoul University, Guest Lecturer, Seoul, Korea
- Hongik University, Guest Lecturer, Seoul, Korea
- AIGA, Gain Conference, New York
- AIGA, In-The-House III, Parsons Lecture Series, New York
- The Art Directors Club, Designism, New York
- Type Director’s Club, New York
- Offset, Dublin, Ireland
- Design Indaba, Cape Town, South Africa
- The World Knowledge Forum, Seoul, Korea
- 3M, Inspiramov, São Paulo, Brazil
- Pro Arte Russia, Workshop, St. Petersburg, Russia
- FILE / International Electronic Language Festival, São Paulo, Brazil
- Golden Tag, Oslo, Norway
- Experimenta, Amsterdam, Holland
- Creative Industries Conference, Berlin, Germany
- FID, Costa Rica
- Scuela Politecnica, Milan, Italy
- Sofia Design Week, Sofia, Bulgaria
- Dynamic/MTL, Montreal, Canada
- JWT, New York
Teaching
- School of Visual Arts, NY, BFA Senior Class, 2008 – 2014
- Parsons School of Design, NY, BFA Sophomore Class, 2001 – 2002
Exhibitions
- Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Graphic Design: Now in Production, New York
- Museum of Art and Design, Otherwordly, New York
- International Design Biennale, Experimenta, Amsterdam
- The New York Times Gallery, Word Play, New York
- Frankfurt Museum of Applied Arts, Korea Power, Frankfurt, Germany
- The Eisner – American Museum of Advertising & Design, Milwaukee
- Boston Society of Architects, Stereotype, Boston
- Murphy & Dine Gallery, Small is Beautiful, New York
- Sangsangmadang Gallery, Picnic on the City, Seoul, Korea
- Lisbon Design Biennale, Catalysts, Lisbon, Portugal
- Jan van Eyck Academie, Latent State, Maastricht, The Netherlands
- Anonymous Gallery, Joy Ride, New York
- International Design Week, Icograda, Torino, Italy
- Museum for Graphic Design, Dialogue, Breda, The Netherlands
- UICA, Art Prize, Grand Rapids, Michigan
- Raduga Mall, Play, St. Petersburg, Russia
