Mona Kim

Mona Kim (born March 15, 1967) is a Korean-American designer born in South Korea and educated in the United States. Kim is a multidisciplinary design consultant and a visual artist for cultural and commercial projects (Mona Kim Projects).

Through synthesizing words, images, public spaces, and technology, Kim has directed award-winning projects for her clients: environmental design for museum exhibitions; advertising campaigns for fashion and beauty; branded art installations; interactive sensorial spaces; direction and scriptwriting for audio-visual installations; editorial design.

Life and career

Kim is a Carnegie Mellon University graduate with BFA degree with Honors in Design. She had been selected by IBM Strategic Design branch during her last year in the university to collaborate with leaders in the design field such as Edward Tufte and Sam Lucente.[1] In 1990, Kim moved to Italy which had significantly influenced her work and life philosophy to date. In Milan, she had worked with the late Ettore Sottsass and had been introduced to the instinctual approach to design.

In 1993, Kim moved to New York City where she had begun to expand her work into the fashion & beauty sector, working on advertising campaigns for fashion, beauty, and technology for clients and agencies such as Bloomingdales, Samsung Electronics, Coty, Kenneth Cole, and Arnell Group, as well as working overseas for fashion houses in Italy such as Mandarina Duck and Trussardi on the collection side.

During this time, Kim also started to design environments and "experiential spaces" for thematic museums and exhibitions. Using her influence from fashion and advertising background, and merging it with an intellectual approach to communicating socio-political information,[2] her award-winning projects[3][4] are described to be highly impactful, with innovative & seamless synthesis of images, space, and message, that boldly engage the public. She had been involved in international projects which include The European Parliament Visitor Center, The Canadian Museum for Human Rights, "Voices" Exhibition for Universal Forum of Cultures Barcelona 2004, Samsung Seocho Brand Showcase, and "Water for Life" Exhibition, one of Expo Zaragoza 2008's main exhibitions with the much acclaimed sculpture of water Splash[5] which she designed with her partners at Program Collective.[6] She has also worked on branded art installations for Uniqlo[7][8] and scenography for Premiere Vision.[9][10]

In addition, she has lectured at international conferences for digital culture and creativity such as Artfutura[11] and Broadcat.[12] Kim has also been an adjunct faculty and thesis advisor at Parsons Paris School of Art and Design,[13] adjunct faculty at IDEP,[14] Istituto Europeo di Design, and guest lecturer at Elisava Masters Program.[15]

Kim has worked internationally in New York, Milan and Barcelona. She is presently based in Paris.

Awards

Press & publications

References

  1. ↑ Hindo, Brian (November 2, 2005). "'The Front Lines' of Innovation". Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved January 18, 2012.
  2. ↑ "El País Article". Org.elpais.com. Retrieved January 18, 2012.
  3. ↑ "2005 Honor Awards, Society for Environmental Graphic Design, "Voices"". Segd.org. Retrieved January 18, 2012.
  4. ↑ "2004 Good Design Award, Chicago Athenaeum, for "Voices" Exhibition". Chi-athenaeum.org. Retrieved January 18, 2012.
  5. ↑ Ferren, Andrew (June 15, 2008). "New York Times article for Expo Zaragoza and Splash sculpture". Spain: Travel.nytimes.com. Retrieved January 18, 2012.
  6. ↑ "Program Collective". Program Collective. Retrieved January 18, 2012.
  7. ↑ "2009 Digital installation for Uniqlo Paris store" (in French). Journaldesvitrines.com. Retrieved January 18, 2012.
  8. ↑ http://www.traxontechnologies.com/asia/en/showcase-detail.php?id=9981
  9. ↑ Premiere Vision pressKit 2010 Archived September 22, 2010, at the Wayback Machine.
  10. ↑ "Premiere Vision autumn-winter-2011-12". Kulturkompasset.com. Retrieved January 18, 2012.
  11. ↑ "Art Futura Conference 2008". Artfutura.org. Retrieved January 18, 2012.
  12. ↑ "Broadcat Conference". Broad.cat. Retrieved January 18, 2012.
  13. ↑ "Parsons Paris" (PDF). Retrieved January 18, 2012.
  14. ↑ "IDEP" (in Spanish). Idep.es. Retrieved January 18, 2012.
  15. ↑ Elisava Masters Program Archived February 15, 2010, at the Wayback Machine.
  16. ↑ "design as reform – second round winners announced! DUBAI". Vitruvius.com.br. Retrieved January 18, 2012.
  17. ↑ "Jury for D&AD Digital Media category". Dandad.org. Retrieved January 18, 2012.
  18. ↑ "D&AD Silver Nomination, "Voices"". Dandad.org. Retrieved January 18, 2012.
  19. ↑ "2005 Honor Awards, Society for Environmental Graphic Design, "Voices"". Segd.org. Retrieved January 18, 2012.
  20. ↑ "2001 Honor Awards, Society for Environmental Graphic Design, 50 years of TV and more". Segd.org. Retrieved January 18, 2012.

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