Hi, I'm
pronounced "ah-jin"
I'm a student at NYU's Tandon School of Engineering studying Integrated Design and Media with minors in Management and Media, Culture, and Communications. At the moment, I'm most interested in graphic design and creative strategy, but, ultimately, I want to design connection and understanding.
I'm a student at NYU's Tandon School of Engineering studying Integrated Design and Media with minors in Management and Media, Culture, and Communications. At the moment, I'm most interested in graphic design and creative strategy, but, ultimately, I want to design connection and understanding.
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And if you're really curious about my story…
And if you're really curious about my story…
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For as long as I can remember, I loved creating — whether it be arts and crafts at home, music on the piano and the violin, or Ikea furniture with my dad. Especially when I moved to California from South Korea at 8-years-old, I spent much of my time creating and consuming visual media, which didn’t require me to be familiar with English.
Although I adjusted to my new life over the course of elementary and middle school, I continued to feel a strong connection to creating. So in high school, I decided to join my school’s news and features magazine, where I could both improve my writing and continue creating. Here, I fell in love with two things: telling the stories of others and telling them not only through words but visually. For me design was a way of connecting people who couldn’t understand each other through words, and I learned I wanted to do this for the rest of my life.
For as long as I can remember, I loved creating — whether it be arts and crafts at home, music on the piano and the violin, or Ikea furniture with my dad. Especially when I moved to California from South Korea at 8-years-old, I spent much of my time creating and consuming visual media, which didn’t require me to be familiar with English.
In college, I have explored many different disciplines of design, from graphic design and product design to industrial design, and yet I’m still not sure what type of design I want to do. What I do know, though, is that I want to continue to tell stories through design. I want to design connection so people like 8-year-old me can see how creative the world is.
Although I adjusted to my new life over the course of elementary and middle school, I continued to feel a strong connection to creating. So in high school, I decided to join my school’s news and features magazine, where I could both improve my writing and continue creating. Here, I fell in love with two things: telling the stories of others and telling them not only through words but visually. For me design was a way of connecting people who couldn’t understand each other through words, and I learned I wanted to do this for the rest of my life.
In college, I have explored many different disciplines of design, from graphic design and product design to industrial design, and yet I’m still not sure what type of design I want to do. What I do know, though, is that I want to continue to tell stories through design. I want to design connection so people like 8-year-old me can see how creative the world is.
