ALUMNI PROFILES
DONG YOON PARK, MFA ’11
DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY SCHOOL OF ART, MEDIA, AND TECHNOLOGY
Dong Yoon Park’s career path reflects both his passion for typography and design and his technical expertise. Trained in electrical engineering, Park worked in software research at Samsung Electronics until his interest in visual communication led him to enroll at the Samsung Art & Design Institute. After learning about Parsons’ Design and Technology program, he moved from South Korea to study here. At Parsons, Park developed mobile applications that help him share creative work widely. His master’s thesis, Typography Insight, is an iPad app that he hopes others will consider “a good use of a high-resolution screen and gesture-driven interface to support learning.” He also created an elegant intuitive app that introduces users to Parsons and a resource-rich app for the New School community. Hopeful about app developments for education, Park predicts a future of “great innovations using sensor technologies like tangible displays, gyroscopes, accelerometers, and GPS and voice recognition.” In 2011, Park relocated to Seattle for a new position as UX designer at Microsoft—another step in his already impressive professional journey.
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ANDREA LIPPS, MA ’08
HISTORY OF DECORATIVE ARTS AND DESIGN SCHOOL OF ART AND DESIGN HISTORY AND THEORY
“Design is everywhere, helping us interface with the world,” says Andrea Lipps. “Objects particularly resonate for me, encapsulating progress, memory, and social and cultural values.” As curatorial assistant at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Lipps helps organize exhibitions that demonstrate the social and historical importance of contemporary design. From 2008 to 2010, she played a key role in the National Design Triennial exhibition Why Design Now? More recently, she worked on Design with the Other 90%: CITIES, an exhibition installed at the United Nations. Lipps says, “I feel fortunate that I’ve had the chance to contribute to these exhibitions, exploring how design shapes our lives and learning from living designers about their work.” In addition to working as a curatorial assistant, Lipps teaches at Parsons. In spring 2010, she and Matilda McQuaid, deputy curatorial director and head of Textiles at the Cooper-Hewitt, co-taught an interdisciplinary graduate-level course called Inside an Exhibition. “Teaching allows me to further explore design in the world around us. Often I feel I’m the student as much as the instructor.” www.cooperhewitt.org
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