YEON RYOO

Ornaments have been vilified ever since the birth of Modernism. The main reason for their dismissal was their inefficiency in material, time, and labor. But things have changed, especially in digital space. Now it is easier than ever to create forms with the finest details. The duplicitous nature of the Internet allows the ornaments to be easily accessible to everyone. Ornaments are no-longer for the elites. Ornaments are the tactility we craved and the freedom that we missed. Its irrationality is what signals the human existence and its unrestrained expression is what records the history.

Semester-long formal studies lead by Katheleen and Christopher Sleboda.

Recently, branding logos, advertisements, pop music videos, and electronics are readily being used in art and design. This is due to the influence of accelerationist artists. Accelerationism is a nihilistic view towards the efforts to defeat capitalism. Rather than battling against capitalism, accelerationists embed themselves into it. Accelerationists are aware of the self-destructive tendency of capitalism and try to accelerate the process. Thus accelerationist artists often portray the apocalyptic visions filled with ironic use of popular culture.

A workshop brochure website for New York City based performance and media company. The website introduces two levels of reading, further enhancing the user engagement while providing ample information

Internship with LeClair Lucas Studio

Once Zhuang Zhou dreamed he was a butterfly, a fluttering butterfly. What fun he had, doing as he pleased! He did not know he was Zhou. Suddenly he woke up and found himself to be Zhou. He did not know whether Zhou had dreamed he was a butterfly or a butterfly had dreamed he was Zhou. Between Zhou and the butterfly there must be some distinction. This is what is meant by the transformation of things

- Zhuang Zhou

Generated poster using Processing about Gutai Art Manifesto

For this project, I wanted to question the publishing system where only certain voices are being published while the others are lost. So I gathered unpublished works from anyone, designed and bound two copies each, and sent one to the author and the other to a library of the author’s choice. The book was designed according to a template that I designed. Especially the cover was designed according to a system in which generates enough diversity and formal interest.

The books are designed following this template: the title, the author and the Dewy Classification number are stated on the cover. The background color of the cover is created according to the Dewy Classification number (each number represents a rgb value). Each digit decides the number, the width, and the height of the rectagles respectively (circle for any 0).

#art is an app that lets you tag art pieces that you have seen. Using specific location awareness technologies such as iBeacon, #art determines the art that users have viewed and queue them on the screen. The users can tag their experiences onto the piece that they have just viewed. The tags for the art pieces become the mass database for the human experiences towards each art pieces, letting users to search art pieces through emotions and observations rather than physical facts.

This is an emotional yet ideal space for your soul. This space materializes the longing for the security in the world of hyperconnectivity.

In collaboration with Lukas Eigler-Harding

Unhemmed is the premiere fashion, music, arts and culture publication catering to stylistic and artistic students world wide. Based out of Brown University, the Magazine has been operating via its multimedia platform since September 2013.

For this first printed issue, I was assigned to totally redesign the entire magazine. Having the simple black line as the identity and the anchor throughout, Unhemmed pursues more contemporary and minimalistic look that can encompass lager diversity of Rhode Island and fashion community.