Animations
Designer, Illustrator & Animator
Details to come.
Cindy Yoon
New York, NY 2018
Booklet
Designer & Illustrator
¡No Me Han Pagado! (I Haven't Been Paid!) is a Spanish-language guide designed for New Immigrant Community Empowerment (NICE) to help day laborers in New York City protect themselves from wage theft. The project was coordinated by the Public Access Design fellowship at the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) and supported by the Rockefeller Foundation's NYC Cultural Innovation Fund.
Though simple and small, I wanted the guide to be an empowering resource that treated day laborers with dignity. At the outset of the project we worked directly with the NICE community, learning about their personal experiences with wage theft. I was particularly affected by one worker's wife's candid comments about the damage to her family — their marriage, their children and their mutual respect for one another. As I worked on the illustrations and design I tried to keep personal stories like theirs at the center of the project, remembering that the consequences of wage theft are far more than financial.
With the aim of reflecting NICE's New York community, almost all of the illustrations in ¡No Me Han Pagado! are based on member photos and anecdotes.
Get a booklet or pdf here.
Comic Book Informs Day Laborers of Their Rights, Voices of NY
Jornaleros Cuentan Con Libro para Defender Sus Derechos (Handbook Helps Day Laborers Assert Their Rights), El Diario NY
3.5x5.5, 20 pages
New Immigrant Community Empowerment (NICE)
Jackson Heights, NY
2014
LP Packaging
Graphic Designer
I worked in close collaboration with the band to design their vision for the packaging of a . house . no . books . no . clocks. The album was recorded live and improvised with emphasis on unexpected spaces, intersections and accidents. In the design of the typographic insert, I aimed to extend this concept by calling attention to the in-between spaces and visual rhythm of the text.
As described by the band:
"a . house . no . books . no . clocks is the first vinyl release by |▄_.__▀ ▀||| . ._____▀▀|, a non-proficiency research unit whose members live in Mexico City and 07030. The authors compiled 20 assay results from a longitudinal study of microphonic dross, conventional ineptitude, and all-frequencies error. Methods included transducer-array and -distance misjudgment, self-osc. horripilation, and all-zero fidelity ranges. Unplanned coherence intervals were isolated and assigned strange names."
Double-gatefold cover, 10x10 chipboard insert, LP labels x 4
Photos by |▄_.__▀ ▀||| . ._____▀▀|.
Insert silkscreened by Statriot Designs.
Packaging production by Gotta Groove Records.
|▄_.__▀ ▀||| . ._____▀▀|
Mexico City
2014
Animations
Designer, Illustrator & Animator
PostSecret is an art project driven by one simple open prompt: "Share an untold secret on a postcard and mail it to me." The PostSecret website, on which founder Frank Warren continually shares new responses to the prompt, is now the world's most popular ad-free blog. The project has sparked a vast community of dedicated strangers to come together, finding commonality and comfort in personal confessions, fears, regrets, desires, hopes and dreams.
For the launch of the PostSecret Universe app, which contains the largest archive of mailed-in secrets thus far, I created four animations which live in a special section of the app within the core of its spherical interface. Each animation is a visual interpretation of one of Warren's personal origin stories for the project. The visual direction of the animations was inspired by the materiality and eclecticism found in the the collection. Most postcards are crafted by hand, incorporating drawings, manipulated photos and collage.
The animation stills shown here are from Journeys.
HarperCollins Publishers
New York, NY
2014
Exhibition Materials
Graphic Designer
Restroom M / Restroom W was an art installation at the REDCAT Gallery focusing on the imposition of privacy in public space. The Beijing-based artists, Song Dong and Yin Xiuzhen, divided the gallery in half and separately conceived of video and sculpture installations — presented as Restroom M and Restroom W. We aimed to reflect this duality in the exhibition materials, which were designed in collaboration with the artists and designer Roman Jaster.
To reinforce the concept of public space, the brochures play off the newspaper format. Both cover images reference issues of the moment in which the Chinese government aimed to cover up controversial public events.
2 Brochures: 22.75x14 unfolded
2 Postcards: 9x4
Wall Graphics: 67x26
REDCAT Gallery
Los Angeles, CA
2006
Exhibition Materials
Graphic Designer
Unknown Forces was an installation at the REDCAT Gallery by filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul, winner of the Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or in 2010. The exhibition materials were designed in collaboration with Roman Jaster.
Brochures: 9x12, 8 pgs
Postcard: 9x4
Wall Graphics: 50x100
REDCAT Gallery
Los Angeles, CA
2006
Printed Matter
Graphic Designer, 3st
During the summer of 2007, I had the unique opportunity to collaborate with Rick Valicenti on a variety of typographic experiments. These are a few of my favorite pieces:
Everything Is Push Button
Poster for the Graphic Arts Studio, 24x36
This Is My Brain On Chocolate
Poster for an exhibition on chocolate, 24x36
Dr. Atomic
Title treatment for the performance at the Lyric Opera of Chicago
2007
Publication
Graphic Designer
During my final year studying at the California Institute of the Arts, I conceptualized and designed pub: the publication for the CalArts Graphic Design Department in collaboration with designers Julie Mattei, Albritton Robbins, Macgregor Harp and Victor Hu (and under the guidance of Jon Sueda). The spreads displayed here are from an article I wrote and designed about French designer Toffe.
Photos courtesy of Julie Mattei.
Winner of the :output 11 Design Competition
2007
