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About
I am Melly, a Korea-based designer who studied design at Parsons School of Design. My portfolio, Mellifluous, documents my journey of finding the perfect balance between creative flexibility and precise adherence to guidelines. With a commitment to continuous learning, I cherish every moment of growth as I transform abstract ideas into visual value.
Work
Portfolio
Poster Design
A series of poster designs exploring visual rhythm and formal play. By deconstructing and rearranging core keywords, I aimed to capture dynamic energy and establish a new visual order on a 2D plane
EVERY MONTH IS EARTH MONTH: Aether Map
Aether Map is a Figma-based prototype designed to help people stay safe in emergencies by sharing real-time updates on fire outbreaks and air quality levels. This project was created with a focus on elders and firefighters—those who often face the greatest risk but the most barriers in quickly accessing digital information.
In cities like New York, where buildings are dense and air quality can shift rapidly, it’s crucial for people to receive clear and fast alerts. Aether Map simplifies this process with a clean, readable interface showing real-time fire zones and AQI levels. The visual design uses large icons, bold colors, and minimal navigation, ensuring that even those less familiar with technology can use it with ease.
Beyond alerts, Aether Map builds a sense of community by allowing users to request and offer help. Whether it’s needing assistance during an evacuation or checking in on a neighbor, the platform connects people through mutual care.
This project reimagines safety not just as information delivery, but as a shared responsibility, empowering people to support and protect one another in moments that matter.
In cities like New York, where buildings are dense and air quality can shift rapidly, it’s crucial for people to receive clear and fast alerts. Aether Map simplifies this process with a clean, readable interface showing real-time fire zones and AQI levels. The visual design uses large icons, bold colors, and minimal navigation, ensuring that even those less familiar with technology can use it with ease.
Beyond alerts, Aether Map builds a sense of community by allowing users to request and offer help. Whether it’s needing assistance during an evacuation or checking in on a neighbor, the platform connects people through mutual care.
This project reimagines safety not just as information delivery, but as a shared responsibility, empowering people to support and protect one another in moments that matter.
Social Campaign Project
Log Out to Breathe Out is a social campaign project that promotes digital detox through calming visuals and dynamic composition. Inspired by the excessive screen time I observed in my peers—often 12 to 14 hours a day—I wanted to create a gentle reminder to disconnect from devices and reconnect with the present. Set in a city like New York, where modern life and nature coexist, the campaign encourages people to take a break and enjoy real-world moments. The poster design, created in Photoshop, features soft gradients, subtle noise textures, and floating bubble-like elements that evoke a light and airy mood. This aesthetic aims to bring a sense of peace and space, inviting viewers to “log out” and “breathe out.” The final posters were placed into public mockups, imagining their presence in everyday spaces like parks or subways. This project serves as a quiet visual intervention, encouraging small, mindful shifts in our daily digital habits.
Whatever Happens, Handle It
This project is a typographic exploration of a personal mantra that defines my work ethic. Instead of simply designing a poster, I chose to embody the mantra itself through a labor-intensive process. I hand-drew over 100 individual frames to create a typographic stop-motion piece. The act of completing 100 drawings was my way of proving the mantra true: no matter how overwhelming the task, I handle it. This work is not just a visual representation of words, but a record of my persistence and a commitment to seeing a project through to the very end, one frame at a time.
The Liberation: I Wear MySelf
This magazine is a critical exploration of the "social uniform" prevalent in Korean society, where the pressure to conform often stifles individual expression. Observing how people often hide their true selves behind similar, socially acceptable styles, I designed this publication to advocate for fashion as a powerful tool for self-revelation. Through bold layouts and provocative visual storytelling, the magazine encourages readers to break free from the collective gaze and embrace their unique identities. "I wear myself" is not just about clothing—it is a call to courageously express who you are in a world that often demands conformity.
Harmonic Collection
Harmonic Collection: Eternal Creed is a web-based project built around pixel aesthetics, featuring eight unique entries that reflect how I see the world. Each entry expresses a different part of myself—my idea of friendship, the feeling of home through a kitchen, and the journey of finding who I am. The project gathers things I’m deeply obsessed with, mixing dark, bright, and playful tones into a single space. This contrast may feel chaotic or confusing to some, but that very dissonance is part of my self-expression. Like someone who overfills a table knowing it may be too much, I embrace the weight of my own emotional greed. Even if it’s heavy and overwhelming, I don’t want to let go of any part of what I hold close.
Wikibook Design
The WIKIBOOK Project is a book design project centered around the theme of Japanese Urban Legends. Using Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign, I created a book that explores mysterious stories not as horror content, but in a more informative and documentary-like way, inspired by Wikipedia. I used Japanese binding to highlight a traditional feeling and give the book a calm, handmade atmosphere that matches the cultural context. My goal was not to create something scary, but rather something quietly eerie that invites curiosity.
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