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.
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To discuss anything from basketball to basket-weaving, drop a line at jay2028@gmail.com !
Abundantly Exhibition, Medium Studio (Salt Lake City, UT, US)
2021
Radical Return, ISAGALLERY (Shanghai, CN) and BU Art Galleries (Boston, MA, US) curated by Zhongkai Li & Mary Yang
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 basketball to basket-weaving, drop a line at jay2028@gmail.com !
Exhibitions/Recognition
2022Abundantly Exhibition, Medium Studio (Salt Lake City, UT, US)
2021
Radical Return, ISAGALLERY (Shanghai, CN) and BU Art Galleries (Boston, MA, US) curated by Zhongkai Li & Mary Yang
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)