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Katherine is a registered Architect pursuing a Master of Arts in Graphic Design Visual Experience. She holds a Master of Science degree in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University and BArch from Penn State. In her career as an Architect, she has designed and managed projects in the K-12 and Special Needs sectors, and observes that there is an incidental blurring of boundaries between graphic design and architecture. She intends to further explore how structures can be inflected by visuality and vice versa.
WHERE WERE YOU BORN AND WHERE DO YOU LIVE NOW?
Adopted from Seoul, South Korea at infancy, grew up in the Northeast suburbs and farm country, current residence is Savannah GA
LEFTY OR RIGHTY?
Righty
MORNING PERSON OR NIGHT OWL?
Don’t talk to me in the morning until I am on my second cup of coffee. I am committedly nocturnal.
FICTIONAL OR HISTORICAL CHARACTER YOU IDENTIFY WITH?
Josephine March or Elizabeth Bennet raging against societal norms but a hopeless romantic as well
FAVORITE MOVIE?
Would love to say something artsy but I must admit the HBO version of Pride and Prejudice
FAVORITE TV SHOW TO BINGE WATCH?
Newsroom
FAVORITE TYPE OF MUSIC?
Pandora, 50’s and 60’s blues radio
FAVORITE SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM?
Instagram
FAVORITE FINE ARTIST?
N.C., Andrew, and Jaime Wyeth
LAST BOOK YOU READ?
Fiction – George Orwell’s Animal Farm; Non-Fiction – Edward Tufte’s Data Visualization
FAVORITE CHARITY/CAUSE?
Holt International
FAVORITE FREE TIME ACTIVITY?
Biking around Savannah with music
IF YOU WERE NOT A DESIGNER…?
Computer programming, but they are designers too
A MANTRA OR SAYING YOU LIVE BY?
It is what it is, and it is what you make it.
