(I) Upcoming Events
15 Sep 2022Fast Company’s Innovation by Design Awards Honors Synoptic Office’s Redesign of Carnegie Hall’s Timeline of African American Music
9 Aug 2022Creative Review Features Caspar Lam and YuJune Park in their annual Leaders Issue, Profiling Global Creatives Advancing Their Field
1 Jun 2022Print Magazine Highlights Synoptic Office’s Redesign of Magazzino Italian Art’s Digital Platform
9 Aug 2022Creative Review Features Caspar Lam and YuJune Park in their annual Leaders Issue, Profiling Global Creatives Advancing Their Field
1 Jun 2022Print Magazine Highlights Synoptic Office’s Redesign of Magazzino Italian Art’s Digital Platform
(II) Latest News


- The Design Week Awards 2022 Honors Synoptic Office’s Redesign of Carnegie Hall’s Timeline of African American Music in the Best Interaction Design Category16 Jun 2022
- Synoptic Office’s Redesign of Carnegie Hall’s Timeline of African American Music is Nominated for the Webby Awards13 Apr 2022
- Communication Arts Highlights Synoptic Office’s Redesign of Carnegie Hall’s Timeline of African American Music14 Mar 2022
- It’s Nice That Profiles Synoptic Office’s Redesign of Carnegie Hall’s Timeline of African American Music24 Feb 2022
- Print Magazine Explores the Innovative, Data-driven Design of Carnegie Hall’s Timeline of African American Music by Synoptic Office21 Feb 2022
- Synoptic Office on Graphic Design and Chinese Typography in a Roundtable Hosted by Library Stack & NN Contemporary Art10 Feb 2022
- Synoptic Office in Eye Magazine Issue No. 10207 Feb 2022
- Caspar Lam Speaks about the Importance of Mentorship on AIGA Design Podcasts4 Feb 2022
- Caspar Lam Guest Lectures at the Maryland Institute College of Art25 Jan 2022
- Synoptic Office Speaks about Digital Storytelling at Opera America9 Dec 2021
- Caspar Lam Speaks at Design Incubation: Designing Your Research Agenda 1.229 Oct 2021
- Typegeist, a Site for World Scripts, Relaunches with YuJune Park as Editor-in-Chief21 Oct 2021
- Ming Romantic: Collected and Bound 2nd Edition Launches on Library Stack12 Oct 2021
- NEW INC 2021 Demo Day Will Feature Synoptic Office’s New Approaches for Storytelling at Cultural Institutions18 May 2021
- Caspar Lam co-hosts the 2021 AIGA NY Early Career Mentorship Program12 May 2021
- Synoptic Office Presents Collection Practices for Type Designers at ATypI Tech Talks 20214 May 2021
- YuJune Park Judges the ADC 100th Annual Awards, the World’s Longest Continuously Running Design Awards Program19 Apr 2021
- Design Speaker Series: Synoptic Office at the University of Texas, Austin25 Mar 2021
- Reflections on the Chinese Type Archive at the College Art Association10 Feb 2021
- The New York Times Highlights Work for Carnegie Hall’s Timeline of African American Music, an Ongoing Collaboration with Synoptic Office16 Dec 2020
- Synoptic Office Is Honored to Participate in Hong Kong’s deTour 2020 Design Festival: Matter of Life27 Nov 2020
- Maryland Institute College of Art Invites Synoptic Office for Its Visiting Designers Series22 Sep 2020
- New Museum’s NEW INC Selects Synoptic Office to Join Its Knight Foundation-funded Cultural Futures Incubator Program3 Sep 2020
- MUYA Interviews Synoptic Office1 Sep 2020
- Synoptic Office Discusses The Chinese Archive at the Letterform Archive21 Jul 2020
- Synoptic Office Speaks at Typographics 2020: Typelab20 Jun 2020
- It’s Nice That: Synoptic Office’s Bookshelf Reveals the What, How, and Why of Its Design Practice22 Apr 2020
- Design 360° Magazine Interviews Synoptic Office in Multifaceted Studios1 Apr 2020
- Communication Arts Features The Chinese Type Archive27 Feb 2020
- Synoptic Office Featured in Wicked Arts Assignment: Practising Creativity in Contemporary Arts Education2 Oct 2020
- 10 Things to Know About Chinese Typography in TypeRoom25 Feb 2020
- Chinese Fonts to the Rescue in the TypeRoom12 Feb 2020
- Digital Arts Highlights The Chinese Type Archive28 Jan 2020
- Synoptic Office Discusses Global Typography at AIGA NY/TDC Type x Design Series21 Nov 2019
- YuJune Park on Instagram’s Place in Design Education in AIGA Eye on Design23 July 2019
- Synoptic Office is Selected to Participate in a Designathon for BIO 26: Common Knowledge17 May 2019
- Caspar Lam Moderates Panel on Design Education17 Apr 2019
- YuJune Park on Design as a Life-long Learning Process7 May 2019
- Rhode Island School of Design Invites Synoptic Office for Fall Speaker Series28 Nov 2018
- Synoptic Office Visits Rutgers-Camden30 Oct 2018
- Synoptic Office Delivers Objects+Methods Lecture at Virginia Commonwealth University8 Nov 2018
- Caspar Lam on Global Cultural Influences in The Times London18 Jul 2018
- Caspar Lam Joins the Board of Directors of AIGA NY5 Jun 2018
- YuJune Park Joins the Type Directors Club Board of Directors1 Jun 2018
- Synoptic Office Presents at the Type Directors Club22 May 2018
- Language, Form, and Culture at Vox Media27 Apr 2018
- Caspar Lam on Digital Products and Data Privacy in The Los Angeles Times29 Mar 2018
- What Can International Students Teach Us About Design Education for all?11 Feb 2018
- Design as a Living Thing in AIGA Eye on Design17 Jan 2018
- Synoptic Office Speaks at Odds & Ends at the Yale University Art Gallery8 Dec 2017
- YuJune Park on Contemporary Communication Design at Creative Live15 Oct 2017
- Synoptic Office Presents a Digital Learning Platform at DEL in London14 Sep 2017
- Synoptic Office Speaks at Typographics 201618 Jun 2016
- YuJune Park Participates in a Roundtable on Design and Advertising at Northside Festival10 June 2016
- YuJune Park Discusses the Future of Design Education6 Jun 2016
- Caspar Lam Speaks at the Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong23 Nov 2015
- Synoptic Office Speaks at the Type Directors Club8 Feb 2014
- IdN Magazine Profiles Synoptic Office in The Line Issue20 Jul 2012
- The Letters Of The Alphabet Mapped In 3-D, Like A City21 Feb 2012
- It’s Nice That on Synoptic Office as “Prolific Makers”15 Feb 2012