Yang Kim changes minds. Our Creative Director, she is our top visual communicator, always able to find fresh, startling ways of seeing and showing. Her ability to understand and interpret the needs and desires of our clients saves us all time and consistently brings home our bacon, jump-starts our engines, without ever resorting to a single cliche. As a student at Carnegie Mellon University and consistently throughout her career, Kim's work has been recognized by her peers for its clarity, distinctiveness, humanity, and charm. Her no-nonsense style, her wit, and her devotion to her work have earned her long-standing relationships with clients whose businesses have grown to rely on her influence. With a long list of design awards and publications to her name, Kim has made her mark on contemporary graphic design, now serving as lecturer and judge to the world's most prestigious graphic arts organizations and schools. Her broad experience includes designing everything from identity systems and complex corporate product literature programs to kicky little cocktail napkins. Among her favorite and most demanding clients and projects now are son Bruno, daughter Toki, and the home she and Kevin make for them.
Speaking
A! Desino Mexican Design Conference
AIGA Las Vegas
AIGA Nebraska
AIGA Chicago
SEEK: Northern Illinois University
Kendall College of Art and Design
Ferris State University
Juries
Rebrand
AIGA Las Vegas
AIGA Nebraska
Art Director's Club of Cincinnatti
Potlach Annual Report Show
AdClub
Affiliations
AIGA
APDF
DMI
St. Cecelia Music Center board member
UICA board member
Education
Carnegie Mellon University
BFA in Graphic Design
Harvard Business School
Executive Education Seminar
Profile on CMU website
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Off-season awards
Who says winning awards gets old? It always feels good. We’re happy to say that we’ve been kicking some butt in this arena recently – and it’s not even awards season. In the Creativity 38 Annual Awards competition, we have 12 award-winning projects, five of which won a Silver, three Gold, and one Platinum. Creativity 38 [...]
There’s design and Design…
There is an increasing number of great (and I mean great) tools that help people produce their own designed works. These help-yourself and off-the-shelf design tools and templates are pretty good these days, and getting better. At the AIGA Conference in Denver, I saw a presentation given by Shoshana Berger and Grace Hawthorne, co-founders of Ready-Made [...]
Off-season awards
Who says winning awards gets old? It always feels good. We’re happy to say that we’ve been kicking some butt in this arena recently – and it’s not even awards season. In the Creativity 38 Annual Awards competition, we have 12 award-winning projects, five of which won a Silver, three Gold, and one Platinum. Creativity 38 [...]
There’s design and Design…
There is an increasing number of great (and I mean great) tools that help people produce their own designed works. These help-yourself and off-the-shelf design tools and templates are pretty good these days, and getting better. At the AIGA Conference in Denver, I saw a presentation given by Shoshana Berger and Grace Hawthorne, co-founders of Ready-Made [...]