Jan Middendorp is an author, researcher, and designer living in Berlin. He has edited and written books and articles about typography, design and the performing arts; designed printed matter for publishers and non-profit organizations; worked as a consultant and editor to the type world.

She studied graphic design at Seoul National University’s Department of Applied Arts and Graduate School of Design, and received his master’s degree in typography from Eastern Michigan University, USA. She has been teaching design at Hansung University since 1991. She was a research professor at Syracuse University in the United States and the third president of the Korean Typography Society. She is currently serving as the chairman of the Future Planning Committee and editorial board member of the Korean Society of Fundamental Sculpture, and as the Korean representative of the Asia Network Beyond Design. She is the author of Grid, Type and Typography, Hangeul Designer: Kim Jin-pyung, and Typographic Communication, and the translator of Shaping Text and Magazine + Webzine Design.