We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Yongtai Huang. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Yongtai below.

Alright, Yongtai thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. Are you able to earn a full-time living from your creative work? If so, can you walk us through your journey and how you made it happen?

I have started my full-time living at Vineyard Columbus as a graphic designer. During my graduate study, I am dedicated to create design for branding and advertisement. Furthermore, I am interested in creating visual identity for Christian fellowships for a while. I was responsible for designing posters and event promotions on social media and website. some of my final projects are about creating a new visual identity for churches and new digital platform for bible study and daily devotion. Hence, I am not just focus on graphic design for commercial industry and entertainment. Based on my professional and spiritual experience, then I am able to work for Vineyard Columbus.

Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.

I am Yongtai Huang who is passionate with graphic design and illustration. In my perspectives, I believe visual language is a universal languages which brings a communication without restriction of foreign languages. Now as I am working for Vineyard Columbus, I am responsible for create graphic for sermons series. like the thumbnail of sermons series on YouTube. In addition, there are some ministry requesting for a new branding identity and posters. I rebrand their logo and visual identity. Because Vineyard Columbus is a historic church, I bring more contemporary and user friendly visual system for congregations and visitors.

What’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative in your experience?

As designer, we used to help people to address their idea or concept visually about any project. In addition, we are looking for the insights of any projects or issues we see. Thus, we are not just create pretty and appealing graphic for people, we are also critical thinkers who are not only follow the flows.

Let’s talk about resilience next – do you have a story you can share with us?

When I started my BA study in graphic design, I feel that it’s different creative methodology than I think comparing to painting and drawing. Thus, I spend really tough and long term to understand the theory of graphic design. Many time, I though I am not a person who is good at graphic design because I feel I can’t be really creative all the time and create better designs than others. But I was wrong. There are no reasons to give up due to the comparison. In addition, I should set a high threshold for myself, the process of design is a journey of exploring the insights and hidden opportunities for creative projects. I can’t imagine the result and performance before I have done a lot of researches and experiments. Then I feel less anxious and work harder.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.yongtaidesign.com
• Instagram: yongtai83
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yongtai-huang-673b73211/