User:Jentxmgtd/LinYee Yuan

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 * 1) Early Life:

LinYee Yuan grew up in Houston, Texas as a first generation Chinese American. Her father is an engineer, and her mother is a dietician. She has an interest in magazine. In high school, she sneaked out and hang with the librarian of a community college to read magazines. She named Yolk as the most influential magazine in her teens since it features Chinese people on the cover.

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3. Career:

In 2011, Yuan worked for Core77, an industrial design website, where she travelled the world to design festivals and was exposed to various student projects on food. She also opened a Texas style brisket restaurant in Brooklyn.

Mold Magazine: After 3 year of keeping Mold an online platform, she transitioned Mold to a printed format so Mold can reach their audiences who are mainly designers. She advocates for designers to have a voice in discussing critical issues. In art direction, she collaborated with Eric Hu, Matt Tsang, and Jena Myung.

In 2015, she wrote about a project on food crisis by Gemma Warriner, a communication design student in Australia. The project showed the UN that if we continue to consume food at the current rate, by 2030, we will not be able to feed 9 billion people.

Yuan was a part time lecturer at Parsons School of Design.

She is on the judging panel of the Discover Design Award in 2014 and Food & Design Award 2018 at the Dutch Institute of Food & Design.

4. Award:

Yuan is included in the list of Futures 100 Innovators by The Future Laboratory in 2022.