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Ji Lee |
| Country United States/Korea |
| Company Google Creative Lab |
| Designation Creative Director |
Bio
He received a BFA from Parsons School of Design in 1995 and spent four years at Saatchi & Saatchi and two years in Droga5. He has designed catalogues for museums including MoMA and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
His own book, Univers Revolved, which illustrates his 3-D alphabet, was published by Harry Abrams in 2004 and was among the winners of the AIGA 50 Books/50 Covers Award. His work has been published in ABC World News, The New York Times, Newsweek, The Guardian, Wired among others. His products and projects include the Diet Scale (which rather than measure pounds advises the user whether to ingest beet juice or fried chicken) and the Abstractor (which transforms a standard television set into a hypnotic device). Lee's Bubble Project is perhaps his most well known project: 50,000 blank Speech-Bubble stickers were posted on bus stands and billboards around New York City. They invite passersby to speak their minds without censorship, transforming a one-way corporate message into a dialogue. Bubble Project has spread internationally with many cities around the world participating. Lee has written a book on this work called Talk Back, The Bubble Project.