Jiminie Ha

Jiminie Ha, Lecturer in Graphic Design

Jiminie Ha is the founder of the award winning creative agency, With Projects. She was formerly the Senior Director of Graphic Design at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and continues to oversee the global rebranding of the Guggenheim Constellation and its new location in Abu Dhabi. She is the co-founder of Wolfhouse, built by Philip Johnson in 1949, located in Newburgh, NY, reimagined as a new art and culture hub in upstate New York. With a collective background in fine arts, curation, creative direction, design, publishing & fashion, With Projects, Inc. has since 2012, developed relationships with a dynamic range of clients and collaborators as a result of its multidisciplinary practice. The client list includes large global rebrands to developing new brand strategies and systems for up and coming brands in the arts, culture, beauty, lifestyle and fashion sectors. With Projects has led global rebrands for Johnson & Johnson, Crozier, UOVO, Condé Nast, and MetLife. The office has also overseen award winning redesigns of various preeminent publications including Surface Magazine, Harvard Design Magazine, Bidoun, Arts Asia Pacific and Capricious Magazine. Nonfiction is the fastest growing South Korean beauty brand that was named and branded by With Projects. With Projects continues to creatively partner and collaborate with clients such as Ze Books, Deitch Projects, Salon 94, Changes Press, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Monacelli and Rizzoli, The Emanuel Nine, The Slowdown, Planned Parenthood, Aspen Skiing Company, Gaetano Pesce, Yang Li, Biodance, Frederic Malle, Rhizome, The New Museum, American Academy in Rome, Maison Martin Margiela, Miami Design District, NADA, Art Basel, The Glass House, Gentlemonster, OMA and many more. Ha is also the publisher of the celebrated limited edition arts book series, White Zinfandel, which was described by the New York Times as, “Imagine if Marcel Duchamps guest edited Bon Appetit.” The book series can be found in permanent collections of MoMA, PS1, The New Museum, Rhode Island School of Design, Stanford University, UPenn, Yale University, and Bard Center for Curatorial Studies. Over the years, the practice has been recognized by various commercial and cultural institutions such as the American Academy in Rome/Rome Prize Fellowship (FAAR ’12), to nominations for the Cooper Hewitt National Design Award, the Cannes Lion Awards, along with other prestigious global awards such as D&AD, Slack, Surface, National Magazine Award and UTNE. With Projects and White Zinfandel have been recognized and published in the New York Times, T Magazine, Wall Street Journal, Interview Magazine, It’s Nice That, Metal Magazine, Art Info, Art Observed, Bon Appetit, Cool Hunting, New York Magazine, Hypebeast, and The Daily Beast.

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