{"id":238,"date":"2019-04-19T16:12:41","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T16:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parsons.edu\/integrated-design\/?p=238"},"modified":"2019-04-19T16:12:41","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T16:12:41","slug":"yu-ling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parsons.edu\/integrated-design\/yu-ling\/","title":{"rendered":"Yu Ling"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When Yu Ling came to Parsons, she felt unsure that she was enough of an artist. But The New School challenged her to explore diverse interests and care deeply about her studies. In her Artist\u2019s Books class at Parsons, she learned much more than bookbinding. She discovered her love of working with her hands and designing things digitally, realizing that books could be an art form and the perfect medium to combine her interests.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Yu Ling has become something of a master of combining: She\u2019s an Integrated Design major at Parsons, and a Theater major with a minor in Ethnicity and Race at Eugene Lang School of Liberal Arts, a blend made possible by the university\u2019s BA\/BFA program. At Lang, she\u2019d been inspired by a course to consider political systems, oppression, and social justice; and at Parsons, she learned to ask herself why she was creating something. It led her to create a booklet titled \u201cHow the F*ck to Vote.\u201d. Designed to strip the \u201cpolitical jargon\u201d out of election information, the book clarifies the voting process in snappy, approachable language, graphic design, and Yu Ling\u2019s signature humor. \u201cIt\u2019s one of the projects that I\u2019m most proud of,\u201d she says. \u201cThe New School has enabled me to see the world differently. What I\u2019m making now is unlike anything I ever imagined making. I feel like I found who I am and who I want to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n