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Design,
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Sharon is a designer and maker currently based in Brooklyn, New York. They are interested in building physical and digital artifacts that live in shared spaces.

This digital park is currently going through renovations. In the meantime please enjoy your stay ☞*:･ﾟ✧

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2021

MailKart

A tribute to the USPS Grumman LLVs^[1]. Frame by frame animation done in Procreate—best viewed with sound.

2021–2022

Future Fonts: HyperLevel

I was asked by Future Fonts to create a type specimen poster using a selection of their font catalog. I later interpreted the poster in print at Lucky Risograph.

Full project on Future Fonts

2022

Select Song: Karaoke Reader ヾ(´〇`)ﾉ♫•¨•.¸¸♪

I become obsessed with the mini world that's created through karaoke visuals. Documentation coming soon

Old school karaoke graphics contain this sense of duality—you could be singing a song about unrequited love, when in the background, a troop of 3D rendered dancers materialize and start break dancing, their low-poly faces beaming. The stock videography of random nature imagery is out of place but proves hard working as a backdrop for a wide range of MIDI tracks, from ballads to pop bangers.

Take the karaoke song book^[7], a thick (and often times sticky) plastic covered binder of songs. Although a song’s presence in the karaoke system implies its general popularity, all other markers of fame, time, and space are flattened.

Despite this, the Korean songs that start with 사랑 (love) convey a poetic linearity within this flat alphabetical sorting. In the search for that one perfect ballad, my eyes scan through the index which takes me on a journey of yearning—from 사랑하고싶어요 (I want to love), 사랑해요 (I love you), to 사랑했지만 (I loved you)^[8].

2019–2020

Wikipedia Identity

A hypothetical identity system designed for Wikipedia. Completed as a student at ArtCenter College of Design with the guidance of Brad Bartlett.

Every quest for knowledge has a starting point. Can a vast network of information like Wikipedia contain a space that embodies a peaceful sense of intimacy? These are questions I begin to explore with Wiki:Room, a visualization of the Wikipedia homepage on a 3D VR grid.

Inspirations include: both physical and hypothetical libraries^[2], memory palaces^[3], eclectic bookshelves^[4], the sense of community from MMO games^[5], and the peaceful oasis before starting a new game^[6].

2018

KCRW Radio Vending Machine

Fully functional radio in the form of a life-size vending machine showcasing the live programming of LA based radio station KCRW. Completed as a student at ArtCenter College of Design with the guidance of Miles Mazzie and Ivan Cruz.

Footnotes:

[1] USPS Grumann LLV
[2] Karaoke song book
[3] 사랑했지만 (I loved you) - 김광석 (Kim Kwangseok)
[4] Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges

[5] Emma Willard - Temple of Time
[6] Chaekgori - Yi Eunrok
[7] Club Penguin & Maple Story lobby
[8] Dearly Beloved - Kingdom Hearts title theme

Design,
Etc.

hi@sharonpark.info
+1 408 ツت⍢ ⍨ټ〠☺

(

ヾ(´〇`)ﾉ♫•*¨*•.¸¸♪ ♫ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ♫

)

Sharon is a designer and maker currently based in Brooklyn, New York. They are interested in building physical and digital artifacts that live in shared spaces.

This digital park is currently going through renovations. In the meantime please enjoy your stay ☞*:･ﾟ✧

💿 MailKart

A tribute to the USPS Grumman LLVs^[1]. Frame by frame animation done in Procreate—best viewed with sound.

💿 Future Fonts: HyperLevel

I was asked by Future Fonts to create a type specimen poster using a selection of their font catalog. I later interpreted the poster in print at Lucky Risograph.

Full project on Future Fonts

💿 Select Song: Karaoke Readerヾ(´〇`)ﾉ
♫•¨•.¸¸♪¨•.¸¸♫•¨•.¸¸♪¨•.¸¸♫

I become obsessed with the mini world that's created through karaoke visuals. Documentation coming soon.

Old school karaoke graphics contain this inherent sense of duality. You could be singing about a song about unrequited love, when in the background, a troop of 3D rendered dancers materialize and start break dancing with smiles on their low-poly faces. The stock videography of nature and random landscape scenery is out of place but proves hard working as a backdrop for a wide range of MIDI tracks, from ballads to pop bangers.

Take the karaoke song book^[7], a thick (and often times sticky) plastic covered binder of songs. Although a song’s presence in the karaoke system implies its general popularity, all other markers of fame, time, and space are flattened.

Despite this, the Korean songs that start with 사랑 (love) convey a poetic linearity within this flat alphabetical sorting. In the search for that one perfect ballad, my eyes scan through the index which takes me on a journey of yearning—from 사랑하고싶어요 (I want to love), 사랑해요 (I love you), to 사랑했지만 (I loved you)^[8].

💿 My Face is a Garden of Flowers

5 color risograph poetry zine made in collaboration with Lucky Risograph. Documentation coming soon.

💿 Wikipedia Identity

A identity system designed for Wikipedia. Completed as a student at ArtCenter College of Design with the guidance of Brad Bartlett.

Inspirations include: both physical and hypothetical libraries^[2], memory palaces^[3], eclectic bookshelves^[4], the sense of community from MMO games^[5], and the peaceful oasis before starting a new game^[6].

💿 KCRW Radio Vending Machine

Fully functional radio in the form of a life-size vending machine showcasing the live programming of LA based radio station KCRW. Completed as a student at ArtCenter College of Design with the guidance of Miles Mazzie and Ivan Cruz.

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Sharon is a designer and maker currently based in Brooklyn, New York. They are interested in building physical and digital artifacts that live in shared spaces.

Clients & Collaborators:
—Wikimedia Foundation
—Future Fonts
—Lucky Risograph

Exhibitions:
—Brooklyn Art Book Fair 2022

Currently...
Reading:
—Are.na Annual 2022
—Capital City by Samuel Stein
—Wikipedia @ 20 (MIT Press)

Playing:
—Disco Elysium
—Pokémon Unite

Fixated on:
—Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
—Xi'an Famous Foods [N1] Spicy Cumin Lamb Noodles (Extra Spicy)
—Attempting to sing She's Gone at karaoke

Working at:
—COLLINS

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