I am Genuine Ko, a junior BFA Design major at USC Roski School of Art and Design with a minor in Music Production. I am an interdisciplinary artist and designer, and I approach everything with an openness that doesn't settle into one category.

I am drawn to things that are fluid, undefined, and untold. I believe in the potential for change within them and the deep resonance within the unseen. Growing up across different cities and environments, I came to see the world from multiple angles. Everything is complexly interconnected, and yet every part of it speaks in its own voice. I find meaning in the spaces, the moments, and what passes between, in all the things that are easy to overlook. In design, I believe in the weight of emptiness. What is left out can be just as intentional as what remains.

Music is my unavoidable passion. I'm drawn to how it exists as a language, in words and beyond them. I sing and arrange for Trogons, USC's premier East Asian a cappella group, and co-design social media for Band Kori, USC's one and only K-pop band. Culture and identity are always somewhere in my work, shaping the kind of thinking that stays open to where it hasn't been before.