LinYee Yuan is a design journalist as well as the editor and founder of MOLD magazine, which examines issues relating to food from a futuristic design perspective. It has readers in Great Britain, France, Germany, Singapore and Taiwan, as well as the United States.[1]
LinYee Yuan | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Columbia University |
| Occupation | Magazine editor |
| Known for | Founder of MOLD magazine |
Early life
editLinYee Yuan grew up in Houston, Texas as a first generation Chinese American. Her father is an engineer, and her mother is a dietician.[2][3] She has always had an interest in magazine.[4] In high school, she sneaked out and hang with the librarian of a local community college to read magazines.[4] She named Yolk as the most influential magazine in her teens since it is one of the only few publications that features Asian people on the covers.[4]
Education
editIn 2002, Yuan graduated with a bachelor's degree in Asian American studies from Columbia University.[5] She is currently based in New York.[6]
Career
editIn 2011, Yuan worked for Core77, an industrial design website, where she travelled around world to design festivals.[3][4] She also opened a Texas style brisket restaurant in Brooklyn.[4]
In 2013, Yuan founded website thisismold.com, which publishes journalism on futuristic food and design. In March 2017, Yuan launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a physical iteration of the website, which would be published biannually under the name MOLD. With a goal of $34,000, more than $37,000 was ultimately raised.[7][8][1] In interviews, Yuan has stated that the goal of both site and magazine is to examine how design and innovation can create food solutions for an expanding global population.[9] In 2015, she became interested in food design on a global scale when writing about a project on food crisis by a communication design student in Australia, Gemma Warriner, which showed the UN that if we continue to consume food at the current rate, by 2050, we will not be able to feed 9 billion people.[2][3][4]
After 3 years of keeping MOLD an online platform, she transitioned MOLD to a printed format so MOLD could reach their audiences who are mainly designers. She advocates for designers to have a voice in discussing critical issues.[4] In art direction, she collaborated with Eric Hu, Matt Tsang, and Jena Myung.[4]
Yuan was a part time lecturer at Parsons School of Design in Spring 2022.[10] She was on the judging panel of the Discover Design Award in 2014 and Food & Design Award 2018 at the Dutch Institute of Food & Design.[11][12]
Awards and honors
editYuan was included in the list of Futures 100 Innovators by The Future Laboratory in 2022.[13]
See also
edit- Bon Appétit (magazine)
- Foodie
- Yolk
- Parsons School of Design
References
edit- ^ a b Rao, Tejal (March 27, 2018). "A New Generation of Food Magazines Thinks Small, and in Ink". The New York Times. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
Mold is driven by this sense of urgency — telling stories at the intersection of food and design that look to the future
- ^ a b Kennedy, Alicia. "A Conversation with LinYee Yuan". www.aliciakennedy.news. Retrieved 2022-10-23.
- ^ a b c "MOLD Magazine's LinYee Yuan on design and the food crisis". Deem. Retrieved 2022-10-23.
- ^ a b c d e f g h LinYee Yuan : Mold, retrieved 2022-10-23
- ^ Lee, Michelle J. (21 April 2000). "Asian Students Raise Awareness". No. CXXIV, Number 59. Columbia Daily Spectator. Retrieved 4 March 2018.
- ^ Lawrence, Anya (7 March 2017). "Rituals for the Contemporary World". Disegno. Retrieved 4 March 2018.
- ^ "MOLD: The First Print Magazine About the Future of Food". Kickstarter. Retrieved 4 March 2018.
- ^ Gray, Audrey. "Straight for the Gut: MOLD Positions Food as the Next Design Frontier". Metropolis. Retrieved 4 March 2018.
- ^ Wist, Allie (7 March 2017). "GO READ THIS BRAND NEW MAGAZINE ON THE FUTURE OF FOOD". Saveur. Retrieved 4 March 2018.
- ^ "LinYee Yuan | Parsons School of Design". www.newschool.edu. Retrieved 2022-10-23.
- ^ "Who are we to judge?". The Dutch Institute of Food & Design. Retrieved 2022-10-23.
- ^ "Discover Design: Meet the Judges". International Housewares Association. 2014-01-18. Retrieved 2022-10-23.
- ^ Laboratory, The Future. "Futures 100 Innovators : October". www.thefuturelaboratory.com. Retrieved 2022-10-23.