About me; the basics
Graduated with an MFA in Writing at Columbia. My thesis is a novel I'm still writing. In my last year, I was Managing Editor of the Columbia Journal, Web Coordinator for the School of the Arts, studied UI/UX part-time at Designlab, and made a short film that premiered at Cannes. I spend a lot of time at my desk. I really like making thoughts into stuff.
A crush on art
~90 hours of drawing for this website, with breaks where I snap my neck and twist my spine as I paced around my desk thinking of how I was going to make the next ideas happen. Project to-do lists overridden by newer to-do lists as concept evolved, a handstand to start the day and no guarantee of success but always a guarantee of fun; I’m addicted and this website was great confirmation of that. When I'm designing or drawing, I continue forth despite getting sore. Ideas get me so excited that I'd miss a step at the stairs, open the door with a little too much bang, and almost cross the street without looking. This has to be a kind of love.
About me; the basics
Graduated with an MFA in Writing at Columbia. My thesis is a novel I'm still writing. In my last year, I was Managing Editor of the Columbia Journal, Web Coordinator for the School of the Arts, studied UI/UX part-time at Designlab, and made a short film that premiered at Cannes. I spend a lot of time at my desk. I really like making thoughts into stuff.
A crush on art
~90 hours of drawing for this website, with breaks where I snap my neck and twist my spine as I paced around my desk thinking of how I was going to make the next ideas happen. Project to-do lists overridden by newer to-do lists as concept evolved, a handstand to start the day and no guarantee of success but always a guarantee of fun; I’m addicted and this website was great confirmation of that. When I'm designing or drawing, I continue forth despite getting sore. Ideas get me so excited that I'd miss a step at the stairs, open the door with a little too much bang, and almost cross the street without looking. This has to be a kind of love.
I love metaphors / cerebral design thing
I love metaphors. I love how “my heart is broken” is a well-cemented universality while hearts don’t literally break, people don’t actually “carry baggage” or give shoulders that are cold, as much as I love how a “trash can” icon means delete, a “shopping cart” to check out when we rarely use one beyond the supermarket, and even how “windows” “tabs” and “pages” aren’t exactly the words but leave lasting impressions and quickly adopted, because beyond being beautiful they’re also structurally/conceptually true. Wow! Across designing interactions and writing, I am often “on the hunt” for the next metaphor, the next memorable way to deliver a message, feeling, or concept, and usually that takes a lot of knowing: a lot of research, a lot of talking to people, a lot of executing methods that will fail but reveal more, all of which I enjoy.
I love metaphors / cerebral design thing
I love metaphors. I love how “my heart is broken” is a well-cemented universality while hearts don’t literally break, people don’t actually “carry baggage” or give shoulders that are cold, as much as I love how a “trash can” icon means delete, a “shopping cart” to check out when we rarely use one beyond the supermarket, and even how “windows” “tabs” and “pages” aren’t exactly the words but leave lasting impressions and quickly adopted, because beyond being beautiful they’re also structurally/conceptually true. Wow! Across designing interactions and writing, I am often “on the hunt” for the next metaphor, the next memorable way to deliver a message, feeling, or concept, and usually that takes a lot of knowing: a lot of research, a lot of talking to people, a lot of executing methods that will fail but reveal more, all of which I enjoy.
I love metaphors / cerebral design thing
I love metaphors. I love how “my heart is broken” is a well-cemented universality while hearts don’t literally break, people don’t actually “carry baggage” or give shoulders that are cold, as much as I love how a “trash can” icon means delete, a “shopping cart” to check out when we rarely use one beyond the supermarket, and even how “windows” “tabs” and “pages” aren’t exactly the words but leave lasting impressions and quickly adopted, because beyond being beautiful they’re also structurally/conceptually true. Wow! Across designing interactions and writing, I am often “on the hunt” for the next metaphor, the next memorable way to deliver a message, feeling, or concept, and usually that takes a lot of knowing: a lot of research, a lot of talking to people, a lot of executing methods that will fail but reveal more, all of which I enjoy.
I love metaphors / cerebral design thing
I love metaphors. I love how “my heart is broken” is a well-cemented universality while hearts don’t literally break, people don’t actually “carry baggage” or give shoulders that are cold, as much as I love how a “trash can” icon means delete, a “shopping cart” to check out when we rarely use one beyond the supermarket, and even how “windows” “tabs” and “pages” aren’t exactly the words but leave lasting impressions and quickly adopted, because beyond being beautiful they’re also structurally/conceptually true. Wow! Across designing interactions and writing, I am often “on the hunt” for the next metaphor, the next memorable way to deliver a message, feeling, or concept, and usually that takes a lot of knowing: a lot of research, a lot of talking to people, a lot of executing methods that will fail but reveal more, all of which I enjoy.
About me; the basics
Graduated with an MFA in Writing at Columbia. My thesis is a novel I'm still writing. In my last year, I was Managing Editor of the Columbia Journal, Web Coordinator for the School of the Arts, studied UI/UX part-time at Designlab, and made a short film that premiered at Cannes. I spend a lot of time at my desk. I really like making thoughts into stuff.
A crush on art
~90 hours of drawing for this website, with breaks where I snap my neck and twist my spine as I paced around my desk thinking of how I was going to make the next ideas happen. Project to-do lists overridden by newer to-do lists as concept evolved, a handstand to start the day and no guarantee of success but always a guarantee of fun; I’m addicted and this website was great confirmation of that. When I'm designing or drawing, I continue forth despite getting sore. Ideas get me so excited that I'd miss a step at the stairs, open the door with a little too much bang, and almost cross the street without looking. This has to be a kind of love.
About me; the basics
Graduated with an MFA in Writing at Columbia. My thesis is a novel I'm still writing. In my last year, I was Managing Editor of the Columbia Journal, Web Coordinator for the School of the Arts, studied UI/UX part-time at Designlab, and made a short film that premiered at Cannes. I spend a lot of time at my desk. I really like making thoughts into stuff.
A crush on art
~90 hours of drawing for this website, with breaks where I snap my neck and twist my spine as I paced around my desk thinking of how I was going to make the next ideas happen. Project to-do lists overridden by newer to-do lists as concept evolved, a handstand to start the day and no guarantee of success but always a guarantee of fun; I’m addicted and this website was great confirmation of that. When I'm designing or drawing, I continue forth despite getting sore. Ideas get me so excited that I'd miss a step at the stairs, open the door with a little too much bang, and almost cross the street without looking. This has to be a kind of love.
About me; the basics
Graduated with an MFA in Writing at Columbia. My thesis is a novel I'm still writing. In my last year, I was Managing Editor of the Columbia Journal, Web Coordinator for the School of the Arts, studied UI/UX part-time at Designlab, and made a short film that premiered at Cannes. I spend a lot of time at my desk. I really like making thoughts into stuff.
A crush on art
~90 hours of drawing for this website, with breaks where I snap my neck and twist my spine as I paced around my desk thinking of how I was going to make the next ideas happen. Project to-do lists overridden by newer to-do lists as concept evolved, a handstand to start the day and no guarantee of success but always a guarantee of fun; I’m addicted and this website was great confirmation of that. When I'm designing or drawing, I continue forth despite getting sore. Ideas get me so excited that I'd miss a step at the stairs, open the door with a little too much bang, and almost cross the street without looking. This has to be a kind of love.
I love metaphors
/cerebral design thing
I love metaphors. I love how “my heart is broken” is a well-cemented universality while hearts don’t literally break, people don’t actually “carry baggage” or give shoulders that are cold, as much as I love how a “trash can” icon means delete, a “shopping cart” to check out when we rarely use one beyond the supermarket, and even how “windows” “tabs” and “pages” aren’t exactly the words but leave lasting impressions and quickly adopted, because beyond being beautiful they’re also structurally/conceptually true. Wow! Across designing interactions and writing, I am often “on the hunt” for the next metaphor, the next memorable way to deliver a message, feeling, or concept, and usually that takes a lot of knowing: a lot of research, a lot of talking to people, a lot of executing methods that will fail but reveal more, all of which I enjoy.
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shelby.kho@gmail.com
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