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Jon Lung
Born
Jonathan Lung

New York City, US
Alma mater
product designer
  • graphic designer
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    Jonathan Lung is an American television personality, industrial designer and graphic designer, known as a co-host on the Science Channel TV series MythBusters, which premiered November 15, 2017, and is a revival of the 2003 – 2016 incarnation of the program. Lung and his co-host Brian Louden won their hosting duties on the reality television competition series MythBusters: The Search, which aired in January and February 2017.

    Early life

    Jonathan Lung is originally from

    Products of Design in 2016. His MFA thesis project was aimed at encouraging people to be inventive and resourceful with everyday objects, and was inspired by the TV series MacGyver.[2]

    Career

    During the course of his upbringing and education, he amassed skills and techniques working with various woods, metals, foams, plastics, fabrics, papers, resins, silicones, and clays. In addition to designing and building furniture or generating concepts, prototypes and tests as a product designer, he works as a freelance graphic designer.[1]

    Lung appeared on the

    The Science Channel in January 2017. Despite his lack of on-camera experience, his humor and technical expertise, which he displayed in challenges that included finding a needle in a haystack, building a boat out of cardboard and picking a handcuff lock with a bobby pin, impressed the judges, and by the end of the competition, he and his fellow contestant, Houston pilot and rescue diver Brian Louden,[2][3] won the job co-hosting the TV series MythBusters, a reboot of the 2003 – 2016 program. The first 14-episode season of the new series premiered November 15, 2017. Lung commented, "I can't complain when every week I get to blow something up or build some insane machine. Every day, I check something off my bucket list."[2]

    Personal life

    Lung relocated to Los Angeles when he took the job of hosting MythBusters in 2017.[2]

    Lung spends time fabricating in his shop, as well as searching through junkyards, searching for parts to use. He also enjoys cooking.[1]

    References

    1. ^ a b c Bailey, Rob; Priola, Victoria (March 9, 2017). "7 things you need to know about TV's new 'Mythbuster' from Staten Island". Staten Island Advance.
    2. ^
      Visual Arts Journal, Volume 25, Number 2, School of Visual Arts
      (New York City), p. 7.
    3. ^ Fingas, Jon (February 27, 2017). "'MythBusters' revival gets its new hosts". Engadget.

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