Yehwan Song
- 2021 Creator
Yehwan Song is an artist and designer who questions standardized design and interface conventions that lose their content awareness and oversimplify the user experience. She constructs outside-the-frame web interfaces and tools for websites in order to challenge the notion of user-friendliness and bring back content awareness.
Yehwan Song is an artist and designer who questions standardized design and interface conventions that lose their content awareness and oversimplify the user experience. She constructs outside-the-frame web interfaces and tools for websites in order to challenge the notion of user-friendliness and bring back content awareness. She pursues diversity instead of consistency, and respects variety in web design above efficiency.She has worked on various content-focused websites, including World on a wire commissioned by Rhizome of New Museum, Are you for real commissioned by ifa Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Digital Canon?! for a project from LIMA media art, Venice Biennale Korean Pavilion and the Typojanchi biennale.She has given talks and lectures at Typographics, Yale, Pratt, Parsons, HEAD Geneva, Taaaaalks and California College of the Arts, among others.
