ZOE MIYAKO LEE
ABOUT
Zoe Lee is a Chinese-Japanese-Korean-American designer based in the United States. She works between strategic design, research, entrepreneurship, and creative direction. Her research and strategy practice is focused on climate impact, culture, and systems design.
She is a research affiliate at MIT Media Lab in the Community Biotechnology Initiative and a Community Member at New Inc.
Her past collaborators and clients include the NOAA, MIT Media Lab, the Commercial Fisheries Research Foundation, Dark Matter Labs, and more. She graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in Industrial Design in 2024.
Find her @ email + instagram + linkedin + are.na
Zoe Lee is a Chinese-Japanese-Korean-American designer based in the United States. She works between strategic design, research, entrepreneurship, and creative direction. Her research and strategy practice is focused on climate impact, culture, and systems design.
She is a research affiliate at MIT Media Lab in the Community Biotechnology Initiative and a Community Member at New Inc.
Her past collaborators and clients include the NOAA, MIT Media Lab, the Commercial Fisheries Research Foundation, Dark Matter Labs, and more. She graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in Industrial Design in 2024.
Find her @ email + instagram + linkedin + are.na
CURRENT WORK
Zoe Lee & Annie Chen co-founded BEAM, a strategic design studio creating interventions at the intersection of human and living systems. BEAM is participating as a community member in New Inc’s 11th cohort.
Zoe Lee & Annie Chen co-founded BEAM, a strategic design studio creating interventions at the intersection of human and living systems. BEAM is participating as a community member in New Inc’s 11th cohort.
She is also a creative director of Generalist, a design collective and studio based in Providence, RI.
This summer, Lee is working with Dark Matter Labs as a video communications producer with support from the Maharam Fellowship.
RESEARCH & STRATEGY
Some recent projects. More information at BEAM.
CREATIVE DIRECTION & IMAGE
Photos & more from my non-climate related archive.