about

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep…
Scott Adams

Raised and educated in Chicago, Young Koh has been active as a visual designer and front-end developer in the city since 1997. Young Koh currently leads front-end architecture and UI design and development for software products at Schawk(SGK), Inc. headquartered in Des Plaines Illinois.

Young Koh loves driving his 23+ year old Honda CRX with well over quarter of a million miles (290,000 and counting…) on the odometer.

Young Koh

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away…
Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944)

EDUCATION:

Columbia College, School of Communication Arts
Art & Design: Advertising and Graphic Design, B.A. with Honors

CORE PROFICIENCY:

XHTML / HTML / HTML5 / Javascript / CSS
DOM / XML / XSL / XSLT / JSON / Asynchronous Javascript
PHP / MySQL
Photoshop / Illustrator / Acrobat / InDesign / Flash
Flash Actionscript
YUI / JQuery
Working knowledge of Java, JSP, JSTL, Struts, Spring Webflow
Worpdress

…MacIntosh/Windows

AREAS OF PROFESSION:

User experience and interaction design
Web application front/back-end programming and database design
Web concept and architecture
Graphic design and advertising
Illustration and photography

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES AT:

Schawk Inc/SDS
McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin
Networks
Pulsity
Dimeo & Co
Brown MC
Schafer Condon Carter

MAJOR BRAND PROJECTS INCLUDE:

Bally Total Fitness
Masterlock
DeVry
Portillo’s
True Value/Tru-serv
Loyola University
Motorola
American Bar Association
Fidelity Investments
Wrigley Company
Safeway
Kellogg’s
Kraft
Staples
Brach’s
Samsung
…

In my end is my beginning…
Mary Queen of Scots (1542-1587)