Transforming Your Creative Ideas into Personal Projects
“Better World” project
A course by Ji Lee , Creative Director of Facebook and Instagram
Joined April 2019
About the video: “Better World” project
Overview
“ Observe your surroundings, find something that bothers you and create a project that fixes / improves it. ”
In this video lesson Ji Lee addresses the topic: “Better World” project, which is part of the Domestika online course: Transforming Your Creative Ideas into Personal Projects. Find inspiration through simple creative exercises and turn your ideas into shareable stories.
Partial transcription of the video
“BETTER WORLD PROJECT This lesson is called Better World Project. As creative people, we do what we do, above all, because it brings us lots of joy. Drawing, painting, writing, photographing, film-making. Brings us joy creating these things, and it's very rewarding. Even more rewarding is realizing that these projects have a positive impact in our world, somehow. The objective of this lesson is for us to take our skills and talents, and try to use it to have a positive impact in our surroundings. It doesn't matter if it's small or big, just the act of doing something, to improve something ar...”
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Course summary for: Transforming Your Creative Ideas into Personal Projects
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Creative Consulting, Creativity

Ji Lee
A course by Ji Lee
Ji Lee was born in Korea, raised in Brazil and now lives in New York. He studied Graphic Design and Advertising. His career includes working with prestigious companies such as Google, Saatchi & Saatchi, and Droga5. Currently, he’s the Creative Director at Facebook and Instagram. Ji’s passionate about working on personal projects, some of which are the Bubble Project, Word as Image and Drawings for My Grandchildren.
He was named one of the 50 most influential designers in America by Fast Company. His work has been published in The New York Times, BBC, ABC News, The Guardian, Wired and more. For many years, Ji has taught courses on creativity at School of Visual Arts and Parsons School of Design in New York.
Ji has written three books and is a frequent contributor for The New York Times and The New Yorker.
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