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Describe your style in three words.
Simple, Fun and Serious, Conceptual.
What is your favorite tool or piece of equipment?
I use various tools. Carbon paper, black ballpoint pens, a few types of black ink, brushes, silkscreen, linotype-press. These tools enable me to experiment with textures and colors which printers cannot represent.
Describe your workspace to us.
My workspace is a cosy studio in NYC. I have a mac laptop, a 20-inch monitor, a wide table for hand-crafting, a comfortable chair, design books and magazines, a cigarette on the table and two black cats who cross my path all day long.
Who are your heroes?
The word 'heroes' seems a bit gigantic. The mentors around me are my heroes. Work and texts by designers, artists, musicians and writers. People close to me, my family, teachers, friends.
Where do you find inspiration?
I find it at regular places which I visit often and by just walking around. I am interested in looking at things that have already been designed. Signboards on the street, graphics on disposable paper cups, packages of products, and advertising in magazines or newspapers for instance. The internet is also a powerful resource for ideas.
What's been the best and the worst reaction to your work?
My work is simple and doesn't contain much color. People like the simplicity and minimalism, but can also find it dull.
What is the best advice you've ever been given?
"Propose honesty as a solution" by Daniel Eatock. (Mini Manifesto). I once read a bunch of manifestos collected on someone's blog. Out of all of them, this is only one that I still remember. I hadn't thought about the relationship between design and honesty before.
What has been the career defining moment for you so far?
Much of my work has been inspired by personal experience and interest. When I first came to the U.S. I was thirty-one years old. While I was getting used to the new environment, language, and culture, I experienced numerous forms of 'difference'. Exploring these phenomena ended up being the motivation for my work. The other thing defining moment for me is 'slowness'. I prefer using analog tools to relying on a computer program, as a form of rebellion against the fast pace of the digital age.
What would be your fantasy commission?
It would be to work on art-related jobs with artists and curators of galleries, museum and non-profit organizations that need an experimental and unique graphic design. 
What's the best creative/art space near to where you live?
New York is a huge creative cultural space which has numerous galleries, museums, art book stores, and beautiful parks. What is the most interesting for me is the dense but well-systemized city, like a spider map in which multiple cultures, nationalities and races are blended together. This ordinary and awkward city is very inspiring for me.
What are you going to do next?
I have a lot of rough ideas which are not realized yet but which I would like to make concrete. One of these is exhibitions, publishing and workshops with other designers and artists. Working in NYC is so exciting in that the city is a creative space, and it's market is quite huge, but later on I might move to another city to work in a totally new environment and culture.
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Hyoun You Lee 졸지에 '이현유'씨가 되었네.
그냥 읽으면 '현여리'로 읽힐수도..
영문 필명을 써야 하나. 제임스 조, 로버트 조, 마이클 조, 윌리엄 조, 데이빗 조, 리차드 조, 촬스 조, 토마스 조. (미국의 가장 흔한 이름 베스트, 1990 조사)

The first exhibition @ volte
Volte exists to provide a platform for non traditional art and culture in Mumbai. We see ourselves as a node, a gathering point to promote ideas and conversations between artists, technologists, activists, writers, intellectuals and the community at large. We will house an exhibition space, a curated bookshop, artist residencies/studios, a cafe, a film club and a platform for public art. Volte is a radical shift from the traditional gallery model, where the exhibitions, events and audience intermingle in a dynamic and exciting program. While we promote all media of contemporary art, we are interested in advocating and exhibiting projects which blur the lines between the arts, sciences, spirituality and life itself. www.volte.in
Atists ; Kiran Kaur Brar, Mukul Deora, Qusai Kathawala, Tara Kelton

Graphic design: HYJoe

대중교통이 다소 불편한 탓인지 언제나 한산하고 고요한 갤러리.
(아마도 내가 큰 행사가 없을 때만 찾아가나 보다)
오래된 학교건물을 그대로 사용하고 있어 거물 외관의 붉은 벽돌과
내부의 나무로 된 바닥이 상당히 인상적이다.
어린 시절 학교 나무 바닥에 왁스 칠한 기억이 떠오르게 하는 곳이다.
입구에 들어서기 전 카페와 연결되어 식사와 음료를 마실 수 있는 공간이 잠시 발길을 멈추게 한다.
카페의 샌드위치와 커피 맛이 괜찮다.
맨하튼에 있는 모마와는 언제나 사람들이 붐비고 다소 시끄럽고,
현대적이고 모던한 인테리어를 갖춘 점에서 상반된다.

P.S.1 MOMA

PLACE PRACTICE AND TEN DIALOGUES
Interview, Editorial and Design by Claire Yoonna Choi
Ten dialogues with ten artists: German, English, Chinese, Korean, Indonesian, Dutch, Australian and Japanese. All negotiating new environments and many finding this new experience registering in their work. All of them speak of the relationship between their output and where they choose to practice. Some of them feel on the margins of the new cultures they have entered, as visitors. Others, not at all.