dhoyee.chung@icloud.com
CV
Research
Yale University, New Haven
M.F.A. in Graphic Design, May 2019
Fashion Institute of Technology—
New York State University, New York
B.F.A. in Packaging Design, May 2013
A.A.S. in Communication Design, May 2011
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in
Graphic Design, Oakland University, MI,
Fall 2021–Aug 2025
Senior Thesis, Motion Graphics,
Web Design, Design Thinking in UI/UX
Adjunct Assistant Professor in Graphic
Design, St. John’s University, NY,
Fall 2019 & Spring 2021
Foundation Design, Typography,
Senior Design
Teaching Assistant, Yale School of Art, CT,
Fall 2018—Spring 2019
Assisted Professor Sheila Levrant de Bretteville
and Professor Pamela Hovland
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Topleft LLC, January 2022—Present
Co-founder of Multidisciplinary Design Studio.
Di Nigo Consulting, 2016—2020
Art Director, Work as an art director and a
consultant for various non-profit clients.
Yale School of Art, January—May 2019
Work and Study, Designed Yale-All-School poster
series for workshop and artist lecture.
Zago LLC, September 2013—June 2015
Senior Graphic Designer, Developed branding
strategies and created visual systems for
various commercial clients such as The
University of Geneva and non-profit clients such
as The Ecology Center, All-Out, and Human
Rights Watch.
Pentagram Design, Nov 2013—Feb 2014
Design Intern for Paula Scher’s Team,
Assisted with designing brand identities, brand
applications, and logo animations for various
clients such as Comcast, The Miami Museum of
Science, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, and
The Public Theater.
“Revitalizing Symbolic Urbanism: Digitalizing the Vernacular Visual Language of Detroit's Urban Landscape,” Design Incubation Colloquium 10.3: Tenth Anniversary, St. John’s University, New York, June 2024. Peer-reviewed.
“Design and Labor: From Ford’s Automobile Plant to Google Search Engine.” 2023 Advanced Imaging International Festival International Conference, Graduate School of Advanced Imaging Sciences and the Educational Research Institute for AI-Contents Future Industry at Chung-Ang University, South Korea, November 2023, Invited.
“Senior Thesis in Graphic Design,” Oakland University Black and Gold Loyalty Society, Faculty Talk, May 2023, Invited.
“Learning Through Design Thinking” Oakland University Teaching & Learning Symposium, May 2023, Invited.
“The Digitalization of the Creative Market: Design Practice in Platform Economy.” (IN)TANGIBLE HERITAGE(S): A conference on art, design, culture and technology, Architecture Media Politics Society, University of Kent, U.K., June 2022. Peer-reviewed.
“The Digitalization of the Creative Market: Design Practice in Platform Economy.” CICA New Media Art Conference 2022, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, South Korea, June 2022.
“A Prototype of Desiring Being: Exploring Media, Culture, and Technology through Mask and Surface.” Women & Masks: An Arts-Based Research Conference, Boston University, Boston, MA. September 2021.
ARTICLES OR BOOK CHAPTERS PUBLISHED
“Cacophony” poster series, New Media Art 2025, South Korea. Invited.
“Things You and I Met” poster series, Graphis Poster 2025 Annual: The World's Best Poster Design (2024): 234.
“Outside Work: Faculty Exhibition at Oakland University Department of Art and Art History.”Detroit Art Review, February 2023.
“Room Series II” visual essay, Dialogue, American Institute of Graphic Arts Design Educators Community, July 2024, 142–150. Peer-reviewed.
“Room Series I” visual essay, New Media Art 2023, South Korea (2022): 22–25. Invited.
“The Digitalization of the Creative Market: Design Practice in the Platform Economy,” Conference Proceeding, ArchitectureMPS Journal, U.K., December 2022, 134–151. Peer-reviewed.
“The Volatile Bodies.” Body of Work: Yale School of Art MFA 2019, New Haven, CT (2020): 153–156. Invited.
“Interview with Dho Yee Chung.” Digital America, Issue No.14, https://www.digitalamer-ica.org/point-zero-dho-yee-chung, December 2019. Invited.
“Point Zero.” Yale Palimpsest, Volume IX: TRANS [ ], New Haven, CT (2019): 37 and 40. Invited.
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS AND AWARDS
2025 Graphis Poster Competition, Gold Award, May 2024.
Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory 2023: Creative Futures, Project Development Group, December 2022–May 2023.
URC Research Grant, Oakland University, MI, February 2023, $2,000.
Design Writing Fellowship, Writing Space Design Fellowship, June 2022.
Visual Essay Fellowship, American Institute of Graphic Arts: Design Educators Community Writing Fellowship, January-May 2022.
Yale Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking Summer Fellowship, Semi-Finalist, April 2019.
The Alice Kimball English Traveling Fellowship, Yale University, May 2018, $5,000.
Design Career Lecture, Oakland Schools Technical Campus Northwest, December 2023. Invited.
From Illustrator to Laser Cutting, Student Group Workshop, Oakland University, March 2024.
2023 Winter Idea Pitch Competition, Judge, Oakland University, March 2023.
Lawrence Technological University, Visiting Critic, ART4513 Graphic Design, South Field, MI, May 2022. Invited.
Site Projects in New Haven, Lecture and Visiting Critic, New Haven, CT, August 2019. Invited.
EXHIBITIONS
CICA Museum × George Enescu International Exhibition, George Enescu National University of Arts in Romania, June 2026. Invited. (Forthcoming)
“NEWBODIES/NOBODIES” The CICA Museum International Exhibition, The Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Arts Center, Montgomery College, MD, March 2024. Invited.
HASTAC 2023: Critical Making and Social Justice, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, May 2023.
“Outside Work” Faculty Exhibition, Oakland University Art Gallery, MI, January-April 2023.
“I” International Exhibition, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, South Korea, April 2022.
Graphic Design MFA Thesis Show, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT, May 2019.
“Hot STEAM II” A Science/Video/Art Film Screening, MIT Museum, Cambridge, MA, April 2019.
“We, Activeast” UCLA International Biennial, New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Sep 2018.
The 1st Year Show, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT, May 2018.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Design Incubation Colloquium 11.1: Boston University, Peer Reviewer, June 2024
Oakland Schools Technical Campuses Class Visit, Guest Speaker and Portfolio Reviewer, December, 2023.
Teaching Beyond the Curriculum, Virtual Conference Session Chair, Louisiana State University, LA, November, 2023.
Architecture, Media, Politics, Society International Research Organization Conference: Heritages Past and Present - Built and Social, Prague, Conference Proceedings Peer Reviewer, April, 2023.
Applying Education Teaching and Learning Conference, Virtual Conference Session Chair, Sheridan College, Toronto, Canada, April, 2023.
Yale Alumni Schools Committee, Yale College Interviewer, 2021–Present.