🏆 DesignTO: Juror's Choice Award
🏆 DesignTO: Juror's Choice Award
🏆 DesignTO: Juror's Choice Award
Exhibition
KYOPO
KYOPO
KYOPO
DesignTO 2025 exhibit
DesignTO 2025 exhibit
DesignTO 2025 exhibit
KYOPO follows 8 Korean-Canadian immigrant families and their journey in Canada. This exhibit highlights the overlapping stories using 8 video stills that depicts the growth, determination and resolve of these families. Exhibited at the DesignTO 2025 Youth Exhibit: Story Story.
KYOPO follows 8 Korean-Canadian immigrant families and their journey in Canada. This exhibit highlights the overlapping stories using 8 video stills that depicts the growth, determination and resolve of these families. Exhibited at the DesignTO 2025 Youth Exhibit: Story Story.
problem
PROBLEM
solution
SOLUTION
TEAM
Individual
Individual
ROLE
Artist
Artist
TOOLS
After Effects Premier Pro
After Effects Premier Pro
DATE
Oct 2024 - Jan 2025
The Ideation
THE PROMPT
THE PROMPT
The Ideation
The Idea
THE prompt
The Insights
TEAM
TOOLS
Individual
After Effects Premier Pro
ROLE
DATE
Artist
Oct 2024 - Jan 2025
TEAM
Individual
TOOLS
After Effects Premier Pro
ROLE
Artist
DATE
Oct 2024 - Jan 2025
8 (팔)
The number 8 is a recurring motif throughout the installation. In Korean culture, the number 8 (pal) is a significant number representing luck and prosperity. The character pal is also used in the korean word, pal-ja (eight characters) that means one's fortune, destiny, or fate. In a sense these 8 families share similar fates by moving from Korea to Canada to make a better life for themselves, sharing hardships and narratives.
8 Families · 8 Perspectives · 8 Stories · 8 Scenes · 8 Seconds · 8" x 8" boxes · 8 Reasons · 8 Fates. Pal-Ja 팔자.
THE prompt
8 (팔)
8(팔)
The number 8 is a recurring motif throughout the installation. In Korean culture, the number 8 (pal) is a significant number representing luck and prosperity. The character pal is also used in the korean word, pal-ja (eight characters) that means one's fortune, destiny, or fate. In a sense these 8 families share similar fates by moving from Korea to Canada to make a better life for themselves, sharing hardships and narratives.
8 Families · 8 Perspectives · 8 Stories · 8 Scenes · 8 Seconds · 8" x 8" boxes · 8 Reasons · 8 Fates. Pal-Ja 팔자.
8 (팔)
The number 8 is a recurring motif throughout the installation. In Korean culture, the number 8 (pal) is a significant number representing luck and prosperity. The character pal is also used in the korean word, pal-ja (eight characters) that means one's fortune, destiny, or fate. In a sense these 8 families share similar fates by moving from Korea to Canada to make a better life for themselves, sharing hardships and narratives.
8 Families · 8 Perspectives · 8 Stories · 8 Scenes · 8 Seconds · 8" x 8" boxes · 8 Reasons · 8 Fates. Pal-Ja 팔자.
DesignTO is an annual design festival in Toronto.
I joined nine emerging artists in the in exploring how personal and cultural narratives are constructed and shared through diverse media.
KYOPO contributes to this dialogue by noticing and weaving the commonalities into a storytelling structure, creating a narrative layer that resonates with the exhibition’s focus on storytelling.
The number 8 is a recurring motif throughout the installation. In Korean culture, the number 8 (pal) is a significant number representing luck and prosperity. The character pal is also used in the korean word, pal-ja (eight characters) that means one's fortune, destiny, or fate. In a sense these 8 families share similar fates by moving from Korea to Canada to make a better life for themselves, sharing hardships and narratives.
8 Families · 8 Perspectives · 8 Stories · 8 Scenes · 8 Seconds · 8" x 8" boxes · 8 Reasons · 8 Fates. Pal-Ja 팔자.
8 (팔)
The number 8 is a recurring motif throughout the installation. In Korean culture, the number 8 (pal) is a significant number representing luck and prosperity. The character pal is also used in the korean word, pal-ja (eight characters) that means one's fortune, destiny, or fate. In a sense these 8 families share similar fates by moving from Korea to Canada to make a better life for themselves, sharing hardships and narratives.
8 Families · 8 Perspectives · 8 Stories · 8 Scenes · 8 Seconds · 8" x 8" boxes · 8 Reasons · 8 Fates. Pal-Ja 팔자.
DesignTO is an annual design festival in Toronto.
I joined nine emerging artists in the in exploring how personal and cultural narratives are constructed and shared through diverse media.
KYOPO contributes to this dialogue by noticing and weaving the commonalities into a storytelling structure, creating a narrative layer that resonates with the exhibition’s focus on storytelling.
The number 8 is a recurring motif throughout the installation. In Korean culture, the number 8 (pal) is a significant number representing luck and prosperity. The character pal is also used in the korean word, pal-ja (eight characters) that means one's fortune, destiny, or fate. In a sense these 8 families share similar fates by moving from Korea to Canada to make a better life for themselves, sharing hardships and narratives.
8 Families · 8 Perspectives · 8 Stories · 8 Scenes · 8 Seconds · 8" x 8" boxes · 8 Reasons · 8 Fates. Pal-Ja 팔자.
DesignTO
DesignTO is an annual design festival in Toronto.
I joined nine emerging artists in the in exploring how personal and cultural narratives are constructed and shared through diverse media.
KYOPO contributes to this dialogue by noticing and weaving the commonalities into a storytelling structure, creating a narrative layer that resonates with the exhibition’s focus on storytelling.
The opportunity
The opportunity
DesignTO
DesignTO is an annual design festival in Toronto.
I joined nine emerging artists in the in exploring how personal and cultural narratives are constructed and shared through diverse media.
KYOPO contributes to this dialogue by noticing and weaving the commonalities into a storytelling structure, creating a narrative layer that resonates with the exhibition’s focus on storytelling.
DesignTO is an annual design festival in Toronto.
I joined nine emerging artists in the in exploring how personal and cultural narratives are constructed and shared through diverse media.
KYOPO contributes to this dialogue by noticing and weaving the commonalities into a storytelling structure, creating a narrative layer that resonates with the exhibition’s focus on storytelling.
The PAin Points
THE FRICTION
The opportunity
Key Insights
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DesignTO
DesignTO is an annual design festival in Toronto.
I joined nine emerging artists in the in exploring how personal and cultural narratives are constructed and shared through diverse media.
KYOPO contributes to this dialogue by noticing and weaving the commonalities into a storytelling structure, creating a narrative layer that resonates with the exhibition’s focus on storytelling.
DesignTO is an annual design festival in Toronto.
I joined nine emerging artists in the in exploring how personal and cultural narratives are constructed and shared through diverse media.
KYOPO contributes to this dialogue by noticing and weaving the commonalities into a storytelling structure, creating a narrative layer that resonates with the exhibition’s focus on storytelling.