Ji Lee is Executive Vice President of the Global Marketing Center at

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in Korea and former Creative Director at

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, and the advertising agency

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. Lee's wide range of works covers the fields of advertising, graphic design, marketing, product design, street art, animation, installation, and video. Lee is known for his personal projects such as the Bubble Project, Word as Image, and Drawings for My Grandchildren, and has been giving public speeches on the “Power of Personal Projects.” Lee was named one of America's 50 most influential designers by

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in 2011. Lee’s work has appeared in the New York Times, BBC, ABC News, The Guardian, and Wired. Lee's the author of four books.

Early life

Lee was born in

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, South Korea, in 1971. He moved to Brazil when he was 10 and later moved to New York City to study at

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. He ended up graduating with a degree in communication and graphic design.

Bubble Project

Among the works of public art he is known for is

the Bubble Project The Bubble Project, as proclaimed by its manifesto, aims to counteract corporate marketing and advertisement messages in public spaces. The project was conceived by Ji Lee, an artist and art director who originally printed 15,000 stickers that look ...

: Mr. Lee printed 50,000 stickers that look like speech bubbles used in comic strips. He then posted these blank speech bubbles on top of advertisements throughout New York City, allowing anyone who sees them to write in their comments and thoughts. In 2006, Mr. Lee wrote a book about the project called "Talk Back: The Bubble Project," which talks about the blank bubbles which transformed the corporate monologue into a true public dialogue.

Mysterabbit

Lee was also the founders of the project Mysterabbit where a small white coloured rabbit was placed anonymously in over 19 different countries around the world. The rabbit is 3D Printable and there are photos available on their Mysterabbit website.

Redundant Clock

In 2015, Lee started a crowdfunding project on Kickstarter, called “Redundant Clock”, which was successfully funded. In 2019, Lee collaborated with Hong Kong independent watchmaker Anicorn Watches to make “Redundant Watch”, which was also a crowdfunding project on Kickstarter.

References

External links

Ji Lee's personal websiteThe Bubble ProjectMysterabbit Official WebsiteJi Lee's Kickstarter project - Redundant ClockJi Lee & Anicorn Watches's Kickstarter project - Redundant Watch
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