Youjung Noh

Graphic design, illustrations and coding.

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Youjung is a Korean designer working across design, illustration and code, working on websites and interactive projects. Her research focuses on how technological infrastructure shape the ways we make things. She is based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands pursuing a Master’s at XPUB.

Currently open for work and collaborations!

CV

EDUCATION

2025–present

MA Experimental Publishing, Piet Zwart Institute(WdKA)
Rotterdam, NL

2017–22

BA Industrial Design, Kookmin University
Seoul, KR

WORK EXPERIENCE

2023–25

RXC(PRIZM), Visual Designer
Seoul, KR

2022–23

Kurly, Brand Designer
Seoul, KR

2021

Sober Beauty, Graphic Designer
Shanghai, CN(Remote)

PUBLIC MOMENTS

2026

Our Digital Home, Workshop
Tommi's Place, Rotterdam, NL

2026

Extra Terrestrial Publications From Outer Space, Bookfair
Dokhuis, Rotterdam, NL

2025

A_Mazing_Machine[s] : Wordscapes To Liberate Language, Exhibition
WORM UBIK, Rotterdam, NL

2021

Publisher's Table, Bookfair
Online, Seoul, KR

PUBLICATIONS

2026

Tangled Thoughts, Zine
148 × 210mm, 36 pp, Laser print, Saddle stitch binding

2021

Infinite Cycle, Graphic Novel
148 × 148 mm, 24 pp, Laser print, Saddle stitch binding

A Story in a Story in a Story

This project invites you into an interactive narrative that lets you explore, gather, and plot. Wander around in the virtual environment, pick up what you resonate with, and that is what you take and becomes a tiny part of you. Inspired by Ursula K. Le Guin's Carrier Bag Theory, the game replaces the narratives of conquest and combat with simple gathering. Each time a player gathers an item, they step inside it, finding another item within, recursively. The story isn't moving forward; it's a bag filling up.

December 2026 Pen plotter, Terminal Screen Barbara Mathijssen, Kiki Wu

Tangled Thoughts

A collection of hand drawn tangled shapes that reflects on overthinking. Each drawings were hand-drawn and reassembled using CSS and Paged.js. This zine explores how analog and digital methods can intertwine and merge.

January 2026 148 × 210mm, 36 pp, Laser print, Saddle stitch binding

Phobia Euphoria

This project explores our attraction to repulsive visuals that evoke both disgust and fascination. Unsettling textures are transformed into a playful fidget kit, allowing users to discover comfort and pleasure through tactile interaction. By turning discomfort into enjoyment, the project reflects on dopamine-driven behaviors and our growing dependence on stimulation. It questions how we perceive pleasure and engage with discomfort in a world increasingly shaped by sensory overload.

February 2022 Product, Editorial, Graphic Design Bachelor Thesis

Ascend a Website

This website begins at the bottom. Instead of scrolling down, you scroll up, as if climbing a mountain. It’s a simple shift, reorienting how you engage with digital space. In a world of endless scroll down, this experience invites you to move upward against gravity. Like hiking, reaching the top requires effort. Along the way, you gather stones to build your tower at the peak, leaving behind a trace of your presence on this web.

January 2025 Website Visit website

The Epicure

The Epicure is a monthly gourmet newsletter, offering in-depth explorations of diverse ingredients and guiding readers to discover their own tastes.
To deliver content intuitively, we developed and assetized infographics that visually capture the essence of each topic. These visuals are applied across multiple platforms, including newsletters, social media, posters, web pages, and content pages within the app.

2022-23 Infographics Kurly Inc

The Infinite Cycle

The Infinite Cycle depicts the duality of wanting to be with people while desperately wanting to be alone. Munkt is constantly caught between these two desires, craving for connection and spending time by yourself. The work explores this recurring tension between connection and solitude, and the loneliness that exists on both sides.

January 2021 148 × 148 mm, 24 pp, Laser print, Saddle stitch binding

Sergio's Grand Day Out

At XPUB, we share a tiny communal server called Sergio, where everyone has the freedom to modify things, yet how it works inside feel remote and difficult to understand. This semester, I wanted to bring Sergio out of the shadows by making its digital activity tangible through motors and sensors. For our final Special Issue, Sergio joined our field trip to Het Park on a toy car, where we used a custom Flask app to share photos, drawings, and ideas for collectively shaping our temporary digital space.

March 2026 Flask application, website Visit website

Love Food Love Wine

Wine package design for Kurly’s new online wine delivery service. Line type graphic for sparkling wine and champagne evoke light, bublic texture, while solid type for red wine express its deeper character.

May 2022 Graphic, Package Design Kurly Inc

Our Digital Home

This workshop explores where our digital identities live, challenging the abstract image of "the cloud" and revealing the physical reality of data centers. By replicating a small cloud using a Raspberry Pi, participants are invited to upload intimate images onto a server rendered as a website. Through this activity, we bridge the gap between physical and digital, turning abstract infrastructure into something tangible and personal. Participants examine who controls our data, memories, and online presence, and reflect on digital privacy through the metaphor of a home.

March 2026 Workshop, website Barbara Mathijssen, Tommi Marmo Visit website

Olive Oil Guide

The olive oil brochure was created for the offline space of Kurly, curated marketplace for fine groceries. It was designed to provide an in-depth perspective on olive oil, a staple ingredient used daily, and to help people discover their preference. The brochure includes information on olive oil and details about offline events. It has been distributed to visitors at the space and during docent programs.

2022 Infographics, Brochure Kurly Inc

Bottle Opener

Bottle Opener is an opener shaped like a Corgi and Dachshund. The packaging is designed to open from both sides, emphasizing the long bodies of their feature.

May 2022 Package Design Kurly Inc

Ottchill Glass

Ottchil is a traditional Korean lacquering technique. When lacquer is applied to glassware, it creates a subtle diffusion across the surface. The package design uses gradient colors to reflect this characteristic, gently spreading over the surface.

June 2022 Package Design Kurly Inc

Random image from Youjung's sketchbook