Paul Jun — Brand and Design Leader, Creative Director, Writer

PAUL JUN

I build brands, design teams, and products.

Projects

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The Tenth Muse (10M)

A new platform for discovering the world's greatest art.

Teul

A Figma plugin to create beautiful color combinations for design systems.

Personio

Building a new foundation for the future of HR.

Mixpanel

Building a world for data literacy.

COLLINS IDEAS

Editorial publication for a globally renown strategy and branding agency.

Robinhood

Reimagining a world where everyone can participate.

San Francisco Symphony

Classical Music. Contemporary Art.

Crane

Brand evolution for the world's oldest paper company in the U.S.

Clubhouse

Brand strategy, writing guidelines, and tone of voice.

Match

Re-emerging in the universe they created.

The Observers

An online publication featuring visionaries in photography and the photobooks that inspire their work.

The Seaport

Giving a voice to NYC's historic neighborhood.

CreativeMornings

Leading and building content systems for the world's largest in-person creative community.

The altMBA

Building the first cohort-based course, shaping culture and community.

Connect the Dots

Strategies and meditations on self-education.

Yo! I'm Paul Jun.

I'm a design leader, creative director, writer, and photographer in Brooklyn, NY.

I've worked at the edges of brand, product, strategy, story, community, and AI. For the past few years, I've led in-house brand teams, ensuring the brand is imbued into product, marketing, and beyond.

In the past, I led the brand evolution at Personio and Mixpanel, launched a new editorial project called IDEAS at COLLINS, served as Head of Content for the global CreativeMornings community, and helped build Seth Godin's The altMBA program from the ground up. I co-created The Observers, a publication on photographers and photobooks. I also published a book called Connect the Dots: Strategies and Meditations on Self-education.

I've been writing since 2009, connecting the dots between my interests in history, psychology, creativity, strategy, philosophy, leadership, art, design, and storytelling. Outside of work, I snowboard, play basketball, and take photographs.

I currently lead brand at Ramp.

Reach out at hello [at] pauljun dot me.

Select Essays

Great artists write
Defense against slop and brainrot
Don't grow your garden in someone else's yard
To be creative, practice
No artist is pleased
Stoicism and creativity
The next creative revolution
Four dirty c-words of the internet
Writing is thinking

Featured on

99u
AIGA
Fast Company
Lifehacker
Insider
AdAge
The Next Web
Entrepreneur

Recognitions

AdAge Design Agency of the Year 2019, 2020, 2021
D&AD Design Agency of the Year 2021
D&AD Wood Pencil, Crane
D&AD Wood Pencil, Match
D&AD Yellow Pencil, San Francisco Symphony
D&AD Yellow Pencil, Robinhood
ADC101 Bronze Cube, Clubhouse