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Business of HYPE

Yoon Ahn of Ambush

Business of HYPE

HYPEBEAST

Society & Culture

4.8789 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Yoon Ahn of Ambush talks about breaking into the industry from Dior and beyond. Yoon Ahn is a bit of a polymath: her duties have ranged from music packaging to jewelry design and everywhere in between, but it is her consistent work ethic that have made her stand out across the board.

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0:00.0

Okay, cool. Okay. All right. So, um, just to give you some background, so this is, um, a new

0:07.3

Hype Beast radio show called The Business of Hype. It was Kevin and I sort of talking about, like,

0:12.2

what podcasts really need and the idea that everyone sort of, all of us inspire people to, like,

0:18.3

go out and follow their dreams and quit their day job and do their thing.

0:21.6

But then a lot of young people do it and then I hear like, what do I do now?

0:26.6

Like, you know, what are some of the challenges with real logistical stuff,

0:30.6

trademarking, legal, banking, like, you know, financing and stuff like that?

0:34.6

So that's where I want to sort of concentrate on,

0:40.3

kind of like getting into like the real nitty-gritty business side of things,

0:43.1

which is a side that like very rarely gets exposed.

0:48.1

From Hype Beast Radio, I'm Jeff Staples and this is the business of hype, a show about creative entrepreneurs, brand builders, innovators,

0:52.2

and the realities behind the dreams they've built.

0:54.9

Yun-an is a polymath, the pure definition of the word.

0:58.9

You just can't describe someone like her using one adjective.

1:02.8

I first connected with Yun and her partner verbal around 10 years ago.

1:07.3

I remember we ran into each other at the old Stoosey Soho store, the one with the headporter

1:12.1

store above it, and we stayed connected ever since.

1:15.9

Back then, I thought Yun was a dope graphic designer.

1:19.0

In the early 2000s, graphic design was in an era of crazy Photoshop filters and an explosion

1:24.8

of new typefaces.

1:26.4

Too many fonts, too many filters. With all these new

1:29.4

tools at your disposal, it was hard to stay true to graphic design routes. I was one of those

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