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David (Seungmin) LeeNew York

@dxxidlee designer building identity systems, interfaces, and motion, from concept to code.

Freelance DesignerMcCANN New York

BFA in Communication DesignParsons School of Design

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001I+DENTITY2026

A 260-page archive, website, and campaign that treat identity as tradeable data.

Year
2026
Role
Design, code, art direction
Deliverables
Book, website, campaign
Tools
[Tools]

Framed as a forensic archive of breaches, synthetic personas, and data markets, I+DENTITY shows how identity systems reduce people to exploitable records, and the gap between lived experience and the data that stands in for it. [One more sentence: what you set out to make, or the key constraint.]

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002Design Tools at McCANN2026

Internal tools I design and code for the design team at McCANN New York.

Year
2026
Role
Design Intern, then Freelance Designer
Deliverables
Desktop app, web tools, scripts
Tools
[Tauri, JavaScript, ExtendScript]

Design Intern from June to August 2026, Freelance Designer since. At McCANN I work on client design and motion, and build tools that speed up the team: a desktop reference board, a lockup generator, and After Effects scripts. Client work is under NDA and available on request.

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Experience007

McCANN New YorkAug 2026 to present

Freelance Designer. Continuing at McCANN New York to work on brand systems and build the tools behind them.

McCANN New YorkJun to Aug 2026

Design Intern. Built and shipped an internal toolkit that sped up production across the design department, from a gradient generator to logo variation and After Effects automation, bringing AI into daily workflow. Designed for Ralph Lauren, Chick-fil-A, Lysol, State Street, and K-Y; art directed the agency’s Summer Party.

Independent practiceAug 2025 to present

Designer and Design Engineer. Design and build for MegaETH, Khalid, Ahn Hyo-seop, and Made by Hob, spanning music video credit typesetting, campaign identity, and e-commerce sites.

Studio Betty WangMay to Sep 2025

Design Intern. Developed client-ready concepts through prototyping, visual research, and sketching for Midjourney, Aspen Art Museum, Arsham Studio, and Fig Mother.

Hard SunJun to Aug 2025

Design Intern. Built brand systems for a sunscreen brand through launch, contributing design research, brand-adjacent objects, and external work spanning book covers, billboards, and podcast visuals.

The Metropolitan Museum of ArtJun to Aug 2022

Intern, The Costume Institute. Designed exhibition labels for gallery installation, conserved garments using microscopy, and led exhibition-related design projects while managing the department’s social media account.

Parsons School of DesignAug 2023 to May 2027 (expected)

BFA in Communication Design. Dean’s List

Book photo 4:5

AeternumThesis, March 2027

An app for passing on your digital life.

CairnApp, December 2026

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003Greenwash2025

A publication, responsive site, and animated poster set in a New York where collapse is sold as progress.

Year
2025
Role
Design, code
Deliverables
Book, website, motion
Tools
[Tools]

A speculative near-future New York where environmental collapse is masked as progress through state-led green interventions. Greenwash shows how design and policy can make control look good and hide ecological loss. [One more sentence.]

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004TNNT Alive[Year]

[One line: what TNNT Alive is and what it does.]

Year
[Year]
Role
[Role]
Deliverables
[Deliverables]
Tools
[Tools]

[Context: how TNNT Alive grows out of The New New Testament, a 152-page manifesto of ten rules built from found text and images.]

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005Titles and GFX2025 to 2026

Title cards, credits, and graphics for music videos for Khalid, MegaETH, and [Can’t FW Us artist].

Year
2025 to 2026
Role
GFX artist
Deliverables
Motion, typography
Tools
[After Effects, etc.]

Title and graphics work for music videos, from single title cards to full credit sequences.

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006PROTOCOL / XR[Year]

A display typeface written as a rulebook: 26 rules, A to Z.

Year
[Year]
Role
Type design
Deliverables
Typeface, specimen
Tools
Glyphs

PROTOCOL grew out of XR, a circular-unit Didone built in Glyphs at Parsons School of Design. Each letter carries one rule of a dystopian bureaucratic rulebook, published as a type specimen.

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007Naked[Year]

A typing questionnaire that turns your pauses into letter spacing.

Year
[Year]
Role
Design, code
Deliverables
Website, interaction
Tools
[MediaPipe, MiDaS, JavaScript]

Naked records the time between keystrokes and renders each pause as space between letters, so hesitation becomes visible. [One sentence on face tracking and depth.]

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No.TitleTypeYearRoleLink
001 I+DENTITY Book, website, campaign 2026 Design, code, art direction Case study +
002 Design Tools at McCANN Desktop app, web tools, scripts 2026 Design Intern, then Freelance Designer Case study +
003 Titles and GFX Motion, typography 2025 to 2026 GFX artist Case study +
004 EA$T$IDE E$$CO Album cover for Kevin Wood$hack 2026
005 Feel The Bass Animation 2026
006 Greenwash Book, website, motion 2025 Design, code Case study +
007 AIRNY Website, live air quality data 2025 Visit +
008 20X20 Interactive website 2025 Visit +
009 Real Estate Visualizer for Thomas Maggart 2025
010 Champagne Tears Album cover for Daylan Gideon 2025
011 Made by Hob Website redesign for SAINTED 2025
012 A Final Summer Sensation Poster series for NXGN CBNT 2025
013 PERFECT PIECE Website 2025
014 0316 Zine 2025
015 TNNT Alive [Deliverables] [Year] [Role] Case study +
016 PROTOCOL / XR Typeface, specimen [Year] Type design Case study +
017 Naked Website, interaction [Year] Design, code Case study +
Emaildxxidlee@gmail.com

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