Jinsoo An

         

Mostly product designer and ethnographic researcher, sometimes creative technologist

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Client experience

Activision, Albertsons, Amazon, Anthem, Audi, Blackberry, Bosch, British American Tobacco, California Milk Advisory Board, Cannes Film Festival, CENTRO College for Design, Media and Film, The Clorox Company, Coca Cola, Diamond Foods, DIRECTV, Disney, Eastman Kodak, Esurance, Ford, Foster Farms, Google, HTC, HP, Impossible Food, Infiniti, Keurig Dr Pepper, Konami, LG Electronics, Lucasfilm, Microsoft, MTV, Murad, NFL, Nike, Nintendo, Nissan, Quest Diagnostics, Sony, Spin Master, Sprint, Subaru, T-Mobile, Taco Bell, Target, Vivint Smart Home, Volkswagen, Zillow

Press coverage

Advertising Age, Adweek, BBC, Bloomberg, Business Insider, CNET, Engadget, Fast Company, Food and Wine, Forbes, Gizmodo, HuffPost, The Korea Times, Mashable, MOLD, New York Times, NPR, Salon, Slate, TechCrunch, The Telegraph, TIME, USA Today, The Verge, VICE, Wall Street Journal, Wallpaper*, Wired

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Broadcast appearance

  • ​Playing with Food: The world of video game gastronomy, BBC, UK, 2019
  • ​Outlook on 2050: Future of Food (미리보는 2050년: 미래의 음식), YTN사이언스, South Korea, 2017
  • Rêver le futur: L'alimentation du futur, Planète+ / Netflix, France / Canada, 2016
  • The Gadget Show, Channel 5, UK, 2016
  • Inspiration behind scenes in Blade Runner 2049, directed by Denis Villeneuve, 2017
  • Inspiration for scenes in Napping Princess 「ひるね姫 〜知らないワタシの物語〜」 by Kenji Kamiyama (Director of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex), 2017

Books and journals

  • ​Hungry: Avocado Toast, Instagram Influencers and Our Search for Connection and Meaning, Eve Turow-Paul, Blackstone Publishing, 2020
  • ​Context: The Effects of Environment on Product Design and Evaluation, Dr. Herbert L. Meiselman, Woodhead Publishing, 2019
  • ​Multisensory Packaging: Designing New Product Experiences, Carlos Velasco & Charles Spence, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019
  • ​Gastrophysics: The New Science of Eating, Charles Spence, Penguin Random House, 2017
  • Augmented Human: How Technology is Shaping the New Reality, Helen Papagiannis, O'Reilly, 2017
  • Entertainment Computing, IFIP International Conference on Entertainment Computing, Springer, 2015 / 2017
  • More Playful User Interfaces: Interfaces that Invite Social and Physical Interaction, Anton Nijholt, Springer, 2015
  • Advances in Human Aspects of Healthcare, Vincent G. Duffy, CRC Press, 2012
  • Applications of Evolutionary Computation, Springer, 2012
Forget Virtual Reality. Are you ready for virtual sushi?
Eating the Uncanny Valley: Inside the Virtual Reality World of Food
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Featured exhibitions

  • ​Futurium, Berlin, Germany, 2019-Present
  • ​À table en 2030 – Festival de l'alimentation, Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie, Paris, France, 2016
  • +5 Antwerp à la carte, Museum aan de Stroom, Antwerp, Belgium, 2016
  • International Association of Culinary Professionals Conference, Los Angeles, USA, 2016
  • GLOBALE: Exo-Evolution Curated by Peter Weibel, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2015

Notable collaborators

  • ​AgroParisTech
  • Francois Daubinet, Named World's 50 Best Pasty Chef
  • Google Food Lab Accelerator, Value Chain Management
  • Interaction Design Association (IxDA)
  • Kriss Harvey, Michelin Awarded and Named America's Top 10 Chef
  • Nguyen Tran, Food Network Celebrity Chef
  • UCLA, Suprastudio: Architecture & Urban Design

Published paper

Awards

  • ​First place winner and team lead, Hololens Hackathon, Microsoft, 2016
  • First place winner and team lead, Extreme Wearables Designathon, Intel & ArtCenter College of Design, 2014
  • Best Brand Experience, UX Award, 2014
  • FWA, 2015, 2014, 2013