Won Yu-hong graduated from Hongik University’s College of Fine Arts and Dongguk Graduate School of Industrial Arts. He studied communication design at the Pratt Institute Graduate School of Design in the United States. He has worked as a designer at Cheil Industries and Deskey Associates Inc. in New York City, and served as Dean of the College of Design and Graduate School of Design at Sangmyung University and President and Vice President of the Korean Typography Society. He is currently an emeritus professor of visual design at Sangmyung University College of Design. He is the author of Design Mentoring, Design Grammar, Typography Dictionary, and History of Communication Design, and the translator of Concepts and Principles of Design, New Basics of Graphic Design, CI Design + Typography, Experimental Typography, Moving Type, and www.type, as well as high school textbooks, General Visual Design and Visual Design Practice. He is currently teaching ‘Design Cheonil Yahwa’ on K-MOOC, a Korean online open course.