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.
ABOUT
June Shin is a Korean designer based in New York City. She currently leads creative efforts at a startup and takes on freelance projects if the interest align. Previously, she 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 and MFA in Graphic Design from RISD.
NEWS
06.2023 Led an art-making workshop at the Noguchi Museum
11.2022 Won Noguchi Museum’s 2022 Open Call for Artist Banners
09.2022 Work exhibited in Sounds About Riso at Usagi NY
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 on CA Magazine #237 (Korean)
01.2018 Certicifate of Typographic Excellence from TDC
01.2018 Interviewed on Designsori (Korean)
01.2018 Article on Sobilife (Korean)