Curriculum Vitae
Jinha
Kang
Award-Winning Multimedia Graphics Designer & Art Director
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Nov 2023 — Present
Professional Experience
- Design multimedia content for mobile and web platforms, serving 225 million monthly visitors on the world's most-read newspaper website.
- Produced over 650 graphics for news articles, including data visualizations, maps, infographics, polls, and interactive elements across 1,000 daily stories.
- Manage projects under tight deadlines in a high-pressure newsroom, collaborating with reporters, IT, and graphics teams.
- Enhance the visual identity of the Daily Mail by creating compelling graphic content, leading to increased user engagement, average session duration, and click-through rates.
- Developed social media content to drive successful marketing campaigns and engage target audiences by partnering with copywriters.
- Created branding, graphics, typography, websites, and logos for clients including House of Feelings, Vagabond, and Higher Self Yoga.
- Mentored junior associates in the conception, development, and execution of all visual assets for 2023 Marketing Campaign.
- Collaborated with senior leadership in ideation, coordination, and development of creative assets, contributing to tactics, concept, branding, and art direction for multiple B2B, DTC and HCP projects for leading pharmaceutical companies, including Insmed.
- Worked with cross-functional teams to generate diverse concepts using Midjourney and DALL-E, ensuring alignment with client vision and messaging.
- Led a $3 million team pitch as Art Director, overseeing strategic brainstorming, campaign development, branding, visual ad creation, and execution of creative briefs.
- Designed product interfaces informed by user research, ensuring alignment with target audience needs.
- Led the creation of human-centered design products and prototypes, collaborating with PACE Organization of Rhode Island.
- Guided a summer intensive biomimicry design research program for over 40 design researchers from Horizon Studio, Boston Dynamics, KIA, and Hyundai.
- Conducted research and developed high-fidelity prototypes using advanced 3D printing for Hyundai and Kia researchers for human-centered automotive and sustainable design initiatives, presenting findings directly to company CEOs.
Academic Background
Education
Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) — MFA, Digital + Media
3.986/4.00 GPA · Cross-registration: MIT — Computing Fabrics · Brown University — Reading and Research
Providence, RI
Seoul National University — BFA, Sculpture
Valedictorian · 4.11/4.3 GPA
Seoul, Korea
Recognition
Selective Awards
NY Digital Design Awards — Silver Winner
Infographic
2024
American Digital Design Awards — Digital Design Award
Graphic Design USA
2024
TITAN Health Awards — Silver Winner
Branded Content — Infographics
2024
Capabilities
Skills
Design
Graphic Design
Data Visualization
Infographics
Digital Advertising
Social Media
Digital Design
Brand Identity
Interaction Design
Art Direction
Design Tools
Adobe Creative Suite
Illustrator
Photoshop
InDesign
Adobe XD
Figma
Infogram
Flourish
Programming & AI Tools
Arduino
Processing
HTML
CSS
Basic C++ & JavaScript
Midjourney
DALL-E
Languages & Credentials
Languages & Certifications
Fluent in Korean & English
Languages
Google UX Certificate
Coursera
2023
Collegiate Level Teaching Certificate in Art & Design
Rhode Island School of Design
2023
Additional Information
Additional Experience
- Taught design identity, branding, marketing, and creative unveiling through 'DM-1796-01: Redesigning Our Identity: Branding a Mascot for an Inclusive and Visionary Future.'
- Assisted Department Head Shona Kitchen (Digital + Media) in teaching Technological Landscapes over three semesters.
- Provided technical and academic support to Hyundai Motor Group research fellows in Technological Landscapes classes.
- Conducted collaborative experiments on sustainable art and design funded by Hyundai Motor Group.
- Exhibited work at the Hyundai Research Collaborative Exhibition, Sustainable Futures: Co-creating with Nature (2022).
- Calculated and visualized Tunny's Pasture Tunnel project — 6,000 sq ft for improved artistic tile installation in Ottawa's subway station using AutoCAD and Illustrator.
- Developed diverse colors of tiles and contributed to completing 240 color collections of upcycled ceramic products.
- Solved various complex customizing projects by inventing colors, researching, and designing.
- 3D modeled the playground at YVR International Airport.
- Installed a GIVENCHY show window at Nordstrom Pacific Center.
- Designed customizing furniture for the Vancouver Public Library, MLA, and special customers.
- Conducted user research and designed a website and logo for the company.
- Designed and developed an exterior of an Artificial Intelligence Robot to assist Alzheimer's patients.
Complete List
Awards & Honors
LICC 2025 Award — Official Selection
Newcastle Confidential Live Event Poster for Daily Mail · ILLUSTRATE (Graphic) — Professional
2025
AI Design Award — 2025 Nominee
Art & Entertainment / Mixed Media
2025
Information is Beautiful Awards — Longlist
Science, Technology & Health
2024
Design MastersPrize — Honorable Mention
Graphic & Communication Design
2024
New York Digital Design Awards — Silver Medal
2024
Titan Health Awards — Silver Medal
Branded Content — Infographics
2024
Graphic Design USA — American Digital Design Award
2024 Digital Design Award
2024
Fellowship Awards — Digital + Media
Rhode Island School of Design
2021 – 2022
Assistantship Awards — Digital + Media
Rhode Island School of Design
2021 – 2022
The Excellent Prize / President's Award (Valedictorian)
Seoul National University
2020
Moon Gum Rye Scholarship — Sculpture
Seoul National University
2019
Eminence Awards
Seoul National University
2015 – 2020
The Grand Prize
SK Creative Challenge
2017
The Grand Prize — Light Pollution Photo Contest
Seoul City
2014
Research & Affiliations
Publications & Membership
Integrating Interfaces into Furniture: New Paradigms for Ubiquitous Computing, Mixed Reality, and Telepresence within the Built Environment
Kang, Jinha, et al. — MAB '23: Proceedings of the 6th Media Architecture Biennale Conference, New York, USA (March 28, 2024)
2024
Distance: A collection of studies of Human-Computer interaction to explore human emotions and relationships
Kang, Jinha — Masters Theses, 1045
2023
The International News Media Association (INMA)
Member
Membership
Google Scholar — Jinha Kang
Publication profile
Scholar
Press
Featured / Media
Bold Journey Magazine: Meet Jinha Kang
2025
Artistic in/hindsight: revisit the pandemic through perspectives of artists
Curated by Yuyin (Christy) Wu
2023
Networking in the Arts
Feature
Boston Cyber Art Gallery
Feature
[Exclusive] 'Oil and Water' collaboration between engineering and art schools… Seoul National University students create 7 AI robots
Maeil Business Newspaper
Press
Then and now
SNU News
Press
Interview with graduates who received the president's award from their alma mater
SNU News
Press
2019 Art School Graduation Project
Seoul National University
2019
Exhibition of winning works from the 10th Light Pollution Photo Contest
Seoul News
Press
Selected Shows
Exhibitions
Lincoln Center's Summer for the City: IN:FORMATION FESTIVAL — 'The Newcomer'
Lincoln Center, New York, NY, USA
2025
'The Newcomer'
Queens Botanical Garden, Flushing, NY, USA
2025
RISD Grad Show
Providence, RI, USA
2023
Hyundai Research Collaborative Exhibition — Sustainable Futures: Co-creating with Nature
Providence, RI, USA
2022
Transitory Void
Boston Cyber Art Gallery, Boston, MA, USA
2022
1 + 1 = 22
Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI, USA
2022
Degree Shows — College of Fine Arts, Seoul National University
Seoul, Korea
2019
Discomfort: Not a Wound But a Lingering Scratch — Group Show
Jun Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2017