Jay Li is a Salt Lake City-based creative from Atlanta examining poetics in design. Equipped with chef credos and stylistic crudo, he strives to be a “designer as cook”—steeping in others’ perspectives, deep research, and communal tradition to intimately serve and nourish people first.
Holding a sensitivity to the power of his mouth to invest, demand, and reinvigorate—something he figured out snacking late-night for Graphic Design and Advertising degrees at Boston University—he supplements a relational practice with authorship in print design, digital experiences, visual systems, branding and ad strategy. He currently works for the Utah Jazz as a designer.
He believes a designer’s greatest tools—like with all good cooks—are crafty hands and an intuitive tongue.
❀ SAY HELLO!
♙ LINKEDIN
To discuss anything from b-ball to basket-weaving, drop a line at jay2028@gmail.com (yes, ‘other inquiries’, even you!)
Radical Return, ISAGALLERY (Shanghai, CN) and BU Art Galleries (Boston, US)
CUP Fellowship for Change in Design finalist
Wix Playground Academy, US Summer 2021 cohort
Artist-In-Residence for Innovate@BU's IDEA Con
Hyperallergic
Daily Free Press
The Boston Globe (scroll to bottom for hot take)
Holding a sensitivity to the power of his mouth to invest, demand, and reinvigorate—something he figured out snacking late-night for Graphic Design and Advertising degrees at Boston University—he supplements a relational practice with authorship in print design, digital experiences, visual systems, branding and ad strategy. He currently works for the Utah Jazz as a designer.
He believes a designer’s greatest tools—like with all good cooks—are crafty hands and an intuitive tongue.
❀ SAY HELLO!
✺ ARE.NA
✎ MEDIUM
❏ INSTAGRAM
To discuss anything from b-ball to basket-weaving, drop a line at jay2028@gmail.com (yes, ‘other inquiries’, even you!)
Exhibitions/Recognition
2021Radical Return, ISAGALLERY (Shanghai, CN) and BU Art Galleries (Boston, US)
CUP Fellowship for Change in Design finalist
Wix Playground Academy, US Summer 2021 cohort
Artist-In-Residence for Innovate@BU's IDEA Con
Press
Center for Urban PedagogyHyperallergic
Daily Free Press
The Boston Globe (scroll to bottom for hot take)