From How Design: “Hyesu Lee had spent years saving money for a wedding to a husband she hadn’t even met. In 2006, she decided that nest egg would be better spent funding her move from South Korea to London, where she studied at the Camberwell College of the Arts. Early on, she aspired to be like her heroes Maira Kalman and Natalie Lété, working in watercolors and portraying scenes from real life—admittedly ‘artsy fartsy,’ as she calls it. But after graduating, the work didn’t come. So she moved again—this time, to New York to attend the MFA program at the School of Visual Arts.

While wandering through New York Central Art Supply, she purchased a huge 6?8 piece of paper, assuming she’d eventually find a use for it; weeks later, she decided to fill it with doodles from corner to corner. Friends and fellow students loved it, and seemed amazed at how easily it came to her. So she did it a little more. And a little more. And pretty quickly, she’d discovered a style that was less Kalman or Lété and more Keith Haring or Saul Steinberg…” (For the full story and more images, click here)

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