Jess Park

Jess Park is an industrial designer, researcher, and educator whose practice spans product and home design, material research, and socially engaged design. Her work explores sustainability, accessibility, material culture, and everyday life, with an emphasis on how objects and environments can support wellbeing and more inclusive ways of living.

Her professional experience includes the development of home and consumer products alongside independent design and research. Recent projects explore material culture, sustainability, and traditional making practices through experimental materials and contemporary fabrication. Her teaching integrates research, material exploration, prototyping, and iterative design practice.

MFA, Industrial Design, Parsons School of Design, The New School
MS, Health Services Research, Texas State University
BA, Product Design, University of Oregon

Kiwa — Production Labs Faculty Fellowship, Pratt Institute, 2026

Indigo Miindo: Light — SHINE, NYCxDESIGN, 2026

Indigo Miindo: Night Ritual — One Night Stand, NYCxDESIGN, 2026

The Moon We Carry — Flying High, Rockaway Film Festival and Ladies & Gentlemen Studio, 2026

Metro Mobile — Souvenir, NYCxDESIGN, 2025

Chemicals of Mutual Concern / NYC Subway Pollution Ink — Art Museum at the University of Toronto and Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris, 2021