Mina Kim
Graphic Design MFA
Rhode Island School of Design
Graduates: 2023
Specialisms: Graphic Design / Digital Design / Art Direction
My location: Providence Rhode Island, United States
Mina Kim
First Name: Mina
Last Name: Kim
University / College: Rhode Island School of Design
Course / Program: Graphic Design MFA
Graduates: 2023
Specialisms: Graphic Design / Digital Design / Art Direction
My Location: Providence Rhode Island, United States
Website: Click To See Website
About
I'm a graphic designer passionate about creating visual identities and scalable systems. I explored creative ways to analyze and challenge the existing systems around us with my MFA thesis at Rhode Island School of Design. Previously, I worked as a UX designer, building camera experience for Motorola.
In her essay, “On Software, Or the Persistence of Visual Language,” Wendy Chun discusses how an interface is a distilled representation of complex technologies that are appealing and appear easy to use. She says: The fact that computers compute—that they generate text and images rather than merely represent or reproduce what exists elsewhere—[gets] forgotten. Computers do not simply allow one to see what is on the other side but rather use glass to send and receive light pulses necessary to re-create reference. … The computer—most nonvisual and nontransparent device—has paradoxically fostered “visual culture” and “transparency.” To interact with this simple interface means to consume a filtered version of reality, one where we spend several hours daily. Flat Minimal World is a short clip that investigates the distilled reality of the digital world by glitching the interface and inverting the aesthetics of the inside and outside of the screen.
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