Ji Lee is the founder of the reknowned ‘Bubble Project’, which started 6 years ago. Borne from frustration at corporate advertising agencies, Lee printed and applied 50,000 renegade speech bubbles to street advertisements in New York and other cities around the world. Passersby would then fill the bubbles with musings and Lee would photograph the results and post them on the Bubble Project website.
Lee has since worked for Saatchi & Saatchi, followed by Droga5, where he headed the creative campaign for the launch of the New Museum and Tap Project.
Presently, working as a creative director at Google Creative Lab, Lee’s job is to promote many Google products and Google brand to the world. Lee continues to work as an independent artist, designer, illustrator and teacher. Lee likes to maintain the delicate balance between professional and personal projects, which he believes compliment each other.
Lee is the author of two books, Talk Back: The Bubble Project and Univers Revolved: a 3-Dimensional Alphabet. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek, ABC World News, The Guardian and Wired Magazine among others.
Ji Lee was born in Korea, raised in Brazil, and currently lives and works in New York.
TIME AND PLACE
Thursday 24 September 2009
6:30–8:00PM
Bumble and bumble, 3rd floor auditorium
415 West 13th Street Between Ninth Avenue & Washington St.
6:30–7:00PM Check-in
7:00–8:00PM Presentation