Dana Hong is a London-based designer, specialising in graphic design, UI design and illustration.
She has been now working as a freelance graphic designer in London since 2017 with clients in diverse industries, including luxury fashion, PR, IT, and music.
Before moving to London, she has worked at a global ad agency (TBWA Media Arts Lab, Client: Apple) for 3 and a half years.
Projects
- A Secure PlaceA Secure Place - Sunlight, Hydration, Meditation (2019) is an illustration series to portray seasonal behaviours and emotions I develop during the winter in the U.K. Due to the lack of the sun, I find myself becoming listless and unproductive, not wanting to get out my comfort zone. The still body of a woman portrays my low energy in behaviours. The room settings, screens and plants represent my desire to stay within the comfort zone. The pseudo-lights and pseudo-water represent my hope for moti
- Mediated LoveMediated Love is an interactive storytelling illustration with animation and sound covering 24 hours of a couple’s long-distance relationship. It shows their parallel lives in two different time zones in two different cities, Seoul and London, and how they maintain their intimacy and love despite the distance. Each spread of split screens represents one hour and shows an ordinary day of the couple where they are sometimes at totally different pacing of the day, working or resting, and sometimes
Work history
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Freelance Graphic DesignerSUKI LONDON
London, United KingdomFreelance
Graphic designer at SUKI London, a luxury womenswear brand based in London, UK.
Roles and responsibilities including, but not limited to, designing a website, brand identity, publication layout, high-quality printing, and overall graphic design-related duties for the brand.
Account ExecutiveTBWA\ Media Arts Lab
- Seoul, South KoreaFull Time
- Campaign execution and management for Apple's all marketing communication campaigns in Korea
- Identifying both headquarter and local clients’ desirable strategies and executing global marketing communication accordingly
- Analyzing Korean market and insights and reflect them on global campaigns
- Daily basis cooperation with LA headquarter and other international offices for global strategies and execution
- Managing and producing internal projects for market insight analysis (i.e. music report, trend video magazine, overall industry news magazine)
Skills
- Illustration
- Graphic Design
- Visual Art
- Interactive Design
- Interaction Design
- UI Design
- Editorial Design
Education
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Master of ArtsCentral Saint Martins
- London, United Kingdom
MA Graphic Communication Design
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Bachelor of Arts (BA) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Chapel Hill, United States
BA Journalism and Mass Communication, Graduation with Distinction
Recipient for F. Weston Fenhagen Scholarship for International Students
Awards
Adobe Design Achievement Awards 2018Adobe
Semi-finalist for "Fine Art - Illustration" area for Adobe Design Achievement Awards 2018, with illustration series "In Palm Trees, We Trust".