JI LEE

Jobs

• Samsung, Head of Creative / EVP, Global Marketing, Korea, 2022– 2025

• Meta, Creative Director, Menlo Park, NYC, 2011 – 2022

• Google, Creative Director, NYC, 2008 – 2011

• Droga5, Creative Director, NYC, 2006 – 2008

• Saatchi & Saatchi, Art Director, NYC, 2000 – 2003

Press

• 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

Books

• Let’s Read Animal Words (Children’s Book), Harper Collins

• 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

Books with Ji’s work

• 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

Education

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

Speaking

• 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

• 99% Conference, New York

• Creative Mornings by Swiss-Miss, 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

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

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

• UICA, Art Prize, Grand Rapids, Michigan

• Raduga Mall, Play, St. Petersburg, Russia

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