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RACHEL YOON


Rachel is a Korean-American Graphic Designer and Illustrator holding a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from the Rhode Island School of Design.

She enjoys integrating illustrations into her designs as well as exploring tactile and unconventional elements to craft narratives that resonate with those in her surroundings. Her curiosity lies in exploring the intersection of design for children and adults, aiming to generate new possibilities for play!


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GENERATIVE STORYTELLING VOL. 1: FAIRYTALES

Adobe Photoshop
Adobe InDesign
Clip Studio Paint
Acetate
Risograph Printing
As storytelling coexists within both children and adults, I wanted to think of an interactive and playful way to demonstrate the transformative qualities of it. With that, I decided to experiment with the idea of generative storytelling using acetate-printed illustrations and text. This is an interactive experience that allows the people to play, which involves overlapping and mixing well-known characters and scripts from fairytales in any preferred order to make a brand new story of their own.
PAGES FROM VOL. 1:
As a part of our daily lives in many different forms, stories as well as storytelling are important ways we understand and make sense of the world that we find ourselves in. Stories are TRANSFORMATIVE and a process of presenting a different perspective of the environment around us. This gives us an opportunity to learn from another individual’s experience rather than solely encountering things on our own.
I researched the importance of fairytales, especially their illustrative elements, and how they have changed and modernized over time in order for them to be more comfortably suited for children today. With that in mind, I look into the more nostalgic and older animation styles that were seen in the 1930s (known as rubber hose animation), and compared them to illustrations that were first used for the original fairytale stories. Images above were all digitally hand drawn for the purpose of this interactive experiment. 




Experimentation of layering illustrations with risograph-printed paper along with colored acetate.



The viewers were allowed to interact in any way they liked with the provided illustrations and text printed with acetate. The existing characters and scripts were as a result overlapped and mixed with those that don’t belong, making the overall collage a brand new story of its own.