YuJune Park, Associate Director of the Communication Design program at Parsons School of Design shares the fundamental skills that graphic designers need to succeed in an industry that expects its practitioners to move fluidly from printed matter to digital screens and beyond.

In these lessons YuJune will teach you:

• The role of a graphic designer and its relationship with cross-platform design.

• The vocabulary of design. 

• The learning path to success.

ABOUT YUJUNE:

YuJune Park is the Associate Director and Assistant Professor of Communication Design at Parsons School of Design and the co-founder of Synoptic Office. She served as the Program Director from 2014–2017. Her work has been recognized by the AIGA, the I.D. Annual Design Review, the Art Director’s Club Awards, iDN, It’s Nice That, Etapes, the Museum of Architecture and Design in Ljubljana, and the Ningbo Museum of Art.

She holds an MFA in Graphic Design from Yale University and a BFA in Furniture Design from the Rhode Island School of Design. YuJune has worked for and collaborated with several studios including Base Design, Graphic Thought Facility, and Pentagram for a variety of clients including the Museum of Modern Art, Milk Studios, the Davis Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

In addition to teaching, YuJune speaks widely on design education and typography, most recently at Typographics, Northside Festival, and AIGA/NY.