Artist Spotlight: Jiin Kim

How are you enjoying my artist spotlight project so far? I love having the work of so many artists highlighted on my blog. I think it's worth it if for no other reason than having great design all chronicled in a place where it's easy for me to find: my blog. And I hope you're enjoying looking as I record my favorites!

Today I'm featuring Jiin Kim, who I came across through Design Work Life. She has some great projects, and my favorites all express an interesting combination of fun, bold creativity with simple designs. I really like these posters she made for the Holland Flower Festival.

They use photos in a bold and creative way. I love how the flower photos go with the theme of the event, but are creative and not too obvious or predictable.

I also like the way the white text provides a good deal of contrast against the colored background. The lines with small text (at the top in the above image) are a great feature, too. I love that style of text layout—it's subtle but interesting.

The text is also good—it's very pleasant in tone, which goes well with the event: "We invite you to come and see a historic park full of blooming tulips, hyacinths, and other spring bulbs." "We invite you to come and experience the most beautiful spring garden in the world."

Her posters for New York Fashion Week are wonderful, too.

Again, Jiin used a design that reflects the theme of the event, but in a creative, slightly subtle way. I really love this style. The label looks so cool:

It's really cool to see images of what the posters would look like in action. It's nice imagining how big design can be. I usually think of it as logos or small print items, but it can cover a whole building, too!

This process image is great. It must have taken a lot of patience to do this!

I really love the way these posters reflect outside of the box (or, perhaps more appropriately, outside of the computer) design techniques. Graphic design can be so technology-bound, and while I'm sure technology helped accomplish this project, I like that part of the process was done by hand, as you see above.

I like the various layouts she used in the Interlaken e-magazine she designed. Print layout is such an interesting facet of design!

I'm into circles now, so I love the way they create a design that's simple and clean, but all the photos keep it interesting.

I also really like the typography—it's a good sans serif font, but it's a little more creative and unusual than Helvetica (although I do love Helvetica of course).

I also like the idea of overlaying an image or outline over a photo (above). Very cool!

And giant text over a photo is a great idea, too. I love it! This whole design includes some pretty different layouts, but they all have that simple yet interesting look which ties it together.

So that's a little spotlight of Jiin Kim's work. What do you think?

link: jiin kim