Giseok Ryan Jang

Ryan is a multi-disciplinary designer based in NYC and currently a junior BFA student at The Cooper Union, specializing in graphic design with a minor in History and Theory of Art.

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Experience

SLIIT
Designer(Co-founded)
Jan 2025—Present

Freelance Graphic Designer
Jan 2025—Present

The Cooper Union
Media Lab Student Technician
Oct 2024—Present

MAC Cosmetics
Freelance Fabricator Assistant
Feb 2025—Mar 2025

Give Orange
Graphic Designer
Oct 2024—Apr 2025

Republic of Korea Marine Corps
Sergeant
Jun 2022—Dec 2023

Select Clients

Seoul Museum of Art
Suwon Museum of Art

Skill

Adobe Creative Suite
(including After Effects, Premiere Pro)
HTML, CSS
Figma
Rhino 8

Honors & Awards

NYC Design Festival 2025 - Selected Design in Souvenir Category
2025

The Cooper Union Merit Scholarship
2021

Giseok Ryan Jang

Emojitionary (Collaborative project)

(Instructor)
Self-initated

(Date)
Spring 2020

(Details)
Experimental
Editorial Design
Exhibition Design

Emojis transcend cultural and linguistic boundaries, their meanings shaped and reshaped by user interpretation. Embracing this fluidity, our team developed Emojian—a new language complete with its own grammar and vocabulary. By translating canonical texts, such as the Bible, literature, and poetry, we explored how emojis can evolve beyond imitation to convey meaning on their own terms. Rooted in the theory of simulacra, Emojian challenges the authority of traditional language systems. It asks: Can emojis surpass their symbolic origins to become the dominant medium of a new era of communication? This project marks the death of the origin—and the rise of a new form of expression.