Graphic design, illustrations and coding.
Youjung is a Korean designer working across design, illustration and code, working on websites and interactive projects. Her research focuses on how technological infrastructure shape the ways we make things. She is based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands pursuing a Master’s at XPUB.
2025–present
MA Experimental Publishing, Piet Zwart Institute(WdKA)
Rotterdam, NL
2017–22
BA Industrial Design, Kookmin University
Seoul, KR
2023–25
RXC(PRIZM), Visual Designer
Seoul, KR
2022–23
Kurly, Brand Designer
Seoul, KR
2021
Sober Beauty, Graphic Designer
Shanghai, CN(Remote)
2026
Our Digital Home, Workshop
Tommi's Place, Rotterdam, NL
2026
Extra Terrestrial Publications From Outer Space, Bookfair
Dokhuis, Rotterdam, NL
2025
A_Mazing_Machine[s] : Wordscapes To Liberate Language, Exhibition
WORM UBIK, Rotterdam, NL
2021
Publisher's Table, Bookfair
Online, Seoul, KR
2026
Tangled Thoughts, Zine
148 × 210mm, 36 pp, Laser print, Saddle stitch binding
2021
Infinite Cycle, Graphic Novel
148 × 148 mm, 24 pp, Laser print, Saddle stitch binding
This project invites you into an interactive narrative that lets you explore, gather, and plot. Wander around in the virtual environment, pick up what you resonate with, and that is what you take and becomes a tiny part of you. Inspired by Ursula K. Le Guin's Carrier Bag Theory, the game replaces the narratives of conquest and combat with simple gathering. Each time a player gathers an item, they step inside it, finding another item within, recursively. The story isn't moving forward; it's a bag filling up.
A collection of hand drawn tangled shapes that reflects on overthinking. Each drawings were hand-drawn and reassembled using CSS and Paged.js. This zine explores how analog and digital methods can intertwine and merge.
This project explores our attraction to repulsive visuals that evoke both disgust and fascination. Unsettling textures are transformed into a playful fidget kit, allowing users to discover comfort and pleasure through tactile interaction. By turning discomfort into enjoyment, the project reflects on dopamine-driven behaviors and our growing dependence on stimulation. It questions how we perceive pleasure and engage with discomfort in a world increasingly shaped by sensory overload.
This website begins at the bottom. Instead of scrolling down, you scroll up, as if climbing a mountain. It’s a simple shift, reorienting how you engage with digital space. In a world of endless scroll down, this experience invites you to move upward against gravity. Like hiking, reaching the top requires effort. Along the way, you gather stones to build your tower at the peak, leaving behind a trace of your presence on this web.
The Epicure is a monthly gourmet newsletter, offering in-depth explorations of diverse ingredients and guiding readers to discover their own tastes. To deliver content intuitively, we developed and assetized infographics that visually capture the essence of each topic. These visuals are applied across multiple platforms, including newsletters, social media, posters, web pages, and content pages within the app.
The Infinite Cycle depicts the duality of wanting to be with people while desperately wanting to be alone. Munkt is constantly caught between these two desires, craving for connection and spending time by yourself. The work explores this recurring tension between connection and solitude, and the loneliness that exists on both sides.
At XPUB, we share a tiny communal server called Sergio, where everyone has the freedom to modify things, yet how it works inside feel remote and difficult to understand. This semester, I wanted to bring Sergio out of the shadows by making its digital activity tangible through motors and sensors. For our final Special Issue, Sergio joined our field trip to Het Park on a toy car, where we used a custom Flask app to share photos, drawings, and ideas for collectively shaping our temporary digital space.
Wine package design for Kurly’s new online wine delivery service. Line type graphic for sparkling wine and champagne evoke light, bublic texture, while solid type for red wine express its deeper character.
This workshop explores where our digital identities live, challenging the abstract image of "the cloud" and revealing the physical reality of data centers. By replicating a small cloud using a Raspberry Pi, participants are invited to upload intimate images onto a server rendered as a website. Through this activity, we bridge the gap between physical and digital, turning abstract infrastructure into something tangible and personal. Participants examine who controls our data, memories, and online presence, and reflect on digital privacy through the metaphor of a home.
The olive oil brochure was created for the offline space of Kurly, curated marketplace for fine groceries. It was designed to provide an in-depth perspective on olive oil, a staple ingredient used daily, and to help people discover their preference. The brochure includes information on olive oil and details about offline events. It has been distributed to visitors at the space and during docent programs.
Bottle Opener is an opener shaped like a Corgi and Dachshund. The packaging is designed to open from both sides, emphasizing the long bodies of their feature.
Ottchil is a traditional Korean lacquering technique. When lacquer is applied to glassware, it creates a subtle diffusion across the surface. The package design uses gradient colors to reflect this characteristic, gently spreading over the surface.
Random image from Youjung's sketchbook