June Shin is an award-winning artist and designer from South Korea with a particularly keen eye for typography. Her work — championing thoughtful, smart solutions and centering the audience and context in every project — has been recognized by the Noguchi Museum, Type Directors Club, Art Directors Club, Communication Arts, and Graphic Design USA, among others. Having earned her MFA at Rhode Island School of Design and taught core typography courses as well as creative workshops, she brings a unique blend of academia and industry experience to her craft.

June Shin (b. 1989) is an award-winning artist and designer with a particularly keen eye for typography. Her work — championing thoughtful, smart solutions over flashy trend-chasing visuals and centering the audience and context in every project — has been recognized by the Noguchi Museum, Type Directors Club, Art Directors Club, Communication Arts, Graphic Design USA, Core77, among others. Having pursued her MFA at Rhode Island School of Design and taught core typography courses as well as creative workshops, she brings a unique blend of academia and hands-on experience to her craft.

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About
June Shin is a Korean artist and freelance designer based in New York City. Previously, she led creative efforts at a startup, made fonts at Occupant Fonts, a Morisawa company, and taught typography at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).

Her work has been recognized by Art Directors Club (ADC), Type Directors Club (TDC), Core77, STA 100, and more. 

She holds a BA in Art History from Cornell University, AAS in Graphic Design from Parsons School of Design, and MFA in Graphic Design from RISD. 



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News

11.2021 — Work exhibited at the Bakery South Downtown
03.2021 — Speaker at Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design
01.2021 — Interviewed on Dos Uno Studio IG Live
12.2020 — Presenter at Society of Scribes Holiday Fair
11.2020 — Panelist at TypeCraft 2020
11.2020 — Speaker at Tipografía México
10.2020 — Visiting Designer lecturer at SFSU
09.2020 — How to Speak Dog publication
08.2020 — Rapport (typeface) release
07.2020 — Virtual Studio Tour and Q&A at Typographics
02.2020 — Lecturer at Katherine Small Gallery  
02.2020 — Typeface & writing featured in O1 Magazine
11.2019 — Guest lecturer and critic at Parsons
09.2019 — Illustration featured in TYPE Magazine
04.2019 — Lecture & Workshop at RISD
03.2019 — Panelist at AIGA New York + Type Directors Club
03.2019 — Keynote speaker at AIGA Rhode Island Know Her Summit
02.2019 — Speaker at Maryland Institute College of Art
11.2018 — Speaker at Dynamic Font Day
11.2018 — Visiting Designer lecturer at Boston University
04.2018 — Awarded Graphis Silver Award in two categories 
03.2018 — Interviewed by CA Magazine #237 (Korean)
01.2018 — Awarded Certicifate of Typographic Excellence from TDC
01.2018 — Interviewed by Designsori (Korean)
01.2018 — Article on Sobilife (Korean)
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