Emily Youjin Kim via @itwassme
I interviewed a very creative artist, Emily Kim, she is my sister. She studied at RMIT University as well, but not in a graphic design major, she was a fashion merchandising major. However, she is working as a graphic designer in Seed heritage and also her also studio, named Biscuit studio.
What makes you be a graphic designer?
Most importantly, my personality does not allow me to do repeated works again and again like lawyers or public officials. Graphics always have various changes in work, knowledge, and even skills, which means there are lots of stuffs to learn and comprehend. I always wanted to work as a creative designer and also utilise my creativity as commercial use. Moreover, graphic design allows me to study various fields of design, including fashion, branding, art directing, music. This is because designers must know the trends in the world, people, and their relationships. Therefore. I can utilise various skills in the graphic design field, which makes me fascinated, excited, but not bored.
What is the most important thing when you work on your project?
The important things to process my works are the composition and colour. However, THE most important point is how to infuse my emotions into my artworks. Designs are made by people and are used by people, so delivering the emotions is what always have number-1 priority. The mediums that arouse emotions are composition and colour, so they are always important elements in my work.
What you want to study for the future?
There are tremendous things that I want to learn, but I will reduce them and just talk about 6 things.
First of all, I am studying 3D work by using cinematic 4D in these days. Nowadays, the trend in the graphic design field is the 3-dimensional design which is developed from the 2-dimensional form. I always have a great interest in digital skills and program, so I wanted to learn about 3D more deeply.
In addition, I keep studying animation. I know and deal with how to use adobe after effect and premiere pro but I want to make animations have much more detailed depiction, texture, and movement. In these days, I am trying to utilise an animation software named moho 12, which allows me to easily deal with animated objects.
Finally, I want to learn about web design and also html coding for the website. When I am working in the company, there are lots of stuff to deal with websites such as update the images, fonts, and layouts. Moreover, I want to show my ideas 100% to others in the web design. As I am not a web developer, it is hard to show them on the website without the skills that I mentioned above. For this reason, I want to learn deeply about web design skills to improve the design to be creative.
Except for 3 things that I mentioned above, I also want to study product photography and cinema graphy. Moreover, I think it is not in the graphics field, but I want to also learn about Japanese, especially kanji.
When you get inspiration?
I am always being inspired by everywhere and every time. For example, If I tried to get inspiration I could get it everywhere, regardless of time and space. As a graphic designer, I think I always keep my eyes on the surroundings and circumstances around me. This is because graphic designers are required to create works from what happened in these days such as trend, news, and even meme.
While working on my artwork, I always listen to music. I especially preferred a genre of electronic - potato head people, Flying Lotus, Cosmos midnight. However, my favourite song is changed every day, depending on my mood and a type of work, and it can be jazz, low fi hip hop, and also house music.
What is the most difficult thing when you work as a graphic designer in the company?
As everyone knows, the hardest part as a graphic designer is that communicate with others, including the team members and clients. It is hard to negotiate clients by explaining every point of the products that I designed. It is always difficult and takes lots of time to find a middle ground that everyone satisfied. By the way, I loved the process to communicate with others and also it gives lots of experiences about how to deal with clients by well-organised words.
In addition, it is difficult to design, simulate, and visualise the perfectly same idea in my mind. The final works sometimes do not hold the mood that I expected and imagined. However, after trying with various layouts or colours, finally, I can get a final work that I want to visualise. This process is always fascinated me that just one idea can be various artworks.
I loved the way she worked so far; the style of her creative’s work just emphasised me!
