JI LEE

Samsung, Seoul, Korea, Executive Vice President, 2022– Present

Facebook & Instagram, Palo Alto, Menlo Park, NYC, LA, Creative Director, 2011 – 2022

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

Fast Company, 50 Most Influential Designers in America

ABC World News, The Bubble Project

BBC, Korean grandfather’s long-distance Instagram story-telling

NBC News, Instagram Drawings Helped This Grandfather ‘Rekindle’ Passion, Keep Touch with Family

Today, How this grandpa uses Instagram, and art, to connect with his grandkids

Fantástico, Globo, Drawings for My Grandchildren

brand eins, Der freie Angestellte

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, Ingenious Hack Turns Instagram into a Portfolio Site

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

Creativity Magazine, Ji Lee on working in a bubble

Looking Back Life was Beautiful, Penguin Books

Word as Image Animated E-book, Perigee / Penguin Books

Word as Image, Perigee / Penguin Books

Talk Back: The Bubble Project, Mark Batty Publishers

Univers Revolved: A 3-D Alphabet, Harry Abrams

Please Make this Look Nice: The Graphic Design Process, Peter Ahlberg, Rizzoli International

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

Parsons School of Design, BFA in Communication Design, New York

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

Festival de Criação 2017 / Clube de Criação, São Paulo, Brazil

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

Medellin Design Week, Medellin, Colombia

Design Camp Fest, Lima, Peru

Innovation Lab, Seoul, Korea

JWT, New York

School of Visual Arts, NY, BFA Senior Class, 2008 – 2014

Parsons School of Design, NY, BFA Sophomore Class, 2001 – 2002

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

Museum of Contemporary Art, The World's Peace Day, Isfahan, Iran

UICA, Art Prize, Grand Rapids, Michigan

Raduga Mall, Play, St. Petersburg, Russia