Faculty

YuJune Park

Assistant Professor of Communication Design

Email
parky@newschool.edu

Office Location
L - Sheila C. Johnson Design Center - 2 West 13th Street

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Profile

YuJune Park is a designer, the Associate Director, and an Assistant Professor of Communication Design at Parsons School of Design. She served as the Program Director from 2014–2017. Her work has been recognized by the AIGA, the I.D. Annual Design Review, and the Art Director’s Club Awards. She holds an MFA in Graphic Design from Yale University and a BFA in Furniture Design from the Rhode Island School of Design. YuJune is the co-founder of Synoptic Office with Caspar Lam, a multidisciplinary design studio operating in the space between design, technology and education. The studio has exhibited internationally and been recognized by Fast Company Design, iDn, Neshan, Etapes, and It’s Nice That. Synoptic Office was selected to participate in BIO23, the 23rd Biennial of Design at the Museum of Architecture and Design in Ljubljana, Slovenia and has exhibited at the Ningbo Museum of Art in China and the 26th International Biennial of Graphic Design in Brno. In addition to their studio, YuJune has worked for and collaborated with several studios including Base Design, Graphic Thought Facility, and Rockwell Lab for a variety of clients including the Museum of Modern Art, Milk Studios, the Davis Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. YuJune speaks widely on design education and typography, most recently at Typographics, Northside Festival, and AIGA/NY. She serves on the board of directors of the Type Directors Club.   

Current Courses

Core 1: Typography Studio

Currents: (Spring 2020)

Senior Thesis 2 (Spring 2020)