Lillian Lee

A blog about art, design, books and random things

things i made

  • Participating in MassArtober: 31 days of art prompts. Follow along here: https://bit.ly/2YoLqKK

  • There are so many options now for art prompt projects in the month of October. This year, I’ve decided to join MassArt’s #MassArtober. The running theme for my work will be whatever the prompt is but….make it cute ? View the entire project here.

  • WBUR’s spring ad campaign launched on April 29th inspired by my lettering and headphone / earbud illustration art for the Membership team’s spring fundraising campaign. The summer marketing campaign was multi-channel, appearing everywhere from highway billboards to news websites — via digital programmatic placements and core outlets like The Boston Globe.

  • In 2021, The Metropolitan Area Planning Council’s Arts & Culture and Public Health teams partnered with local artists and designers to produce creative, culturally resonant communications about COVID-19 and vaccinations. MAPC hired nine artists and artist groups to create materials encouraging under-served communities to get vaccinated. As one of the nine artists, I chose the…

  • Great news to share: I received a grant opportunity from Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC) to produce creative, culturally resonant communications about COVID-19 and vaccinations. It’s the perfect art opportunity fit considering the recent comic work I’ve been creating highlighting life during the pandemic and my interest in sharing vaccine information. I’m super excited and…

  • So many fond memories of my time at Mimoco and so when my I got a text message about Hello Kitty MIMOBOT being spotted out in the wild – still – and featured on the current HBO series The Flight Attendant, I was floored…especially because it was Hello Kitty.

  • Recently CNN did a round-up of “I Voted” stickers from all 50 states and Massachusetts was part of the group with that basic, generic oval-shaped flag sticker. It’s not the cutest thing so I wanted to reimagine it. This sticker would be big and round featuring the colors and elements from the flag as well…

  • Whenever the opportunity to work cross-functionally opens up – and with time permitting – I make myself available. It’s a great chance to work with colleagues I normally wouldn’t work with and it’s always fun to work on new projects to stretch my creative brain. My latest work collaboration with Project Citrus at WBUR, which…

  • The WBUR face mask has been a wildly popular premium this season. It was truly a station-wide effort to bring the face mask to life. There were so many design concepts flying back and forth – well over a dozen designs – but they just didn’t resonate. And then, at the eleventh hour, an editor…

  • Partnering with members of marketing and digital teams, we worked together on an extension of WBUR’s 2020 on-air and digital election coverage, “Mass. Election Prep.” The goal is to get people ready to vote in just 7 days. We met up on a video call and discussed: design direction for colors and graphic elements like…