Ahn Young-joo graduated from Hongik University, Department of Art, and received her doctorate from the same university with a thesis titled “Critical Discourse on Vernacular Design and Political Possibilities.” She has lectured on various design cultural theories such as design and material culture, design history, and craft theory at Hongik University and Konkuk University, and is currently an adjunct professor at Konkuk University’s Department of Industrial Design. Her publications include Visual Culture and Design (co-authored), and her papers include “A Study on Vernacular Design in Charlotte Perriand’s Design,” “The Politics of Design: Design as Sensory Transformation,” and “The Cultural Status of Vernacular from a Postcolonial Perspective.” She writes for various media outlets including Design Criticism, discussing design from a sociocultural perspective and is researching new possibilities for craft.
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Ahn Young-joo
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He graduated from Hongik University, College of Fine Arts, Department of Wooden Furniture, and majored in Industrial Design at Rochester Institute of Technology, USA. He has worked as a senior designer at Spoon Design, an adjunct professor at the Department of Industrial Design at Rochester Institute of Technology, a commissioned researcher at the Korea Institute of Design Promotion (KIDP), and is currently a professor at the Department of Living Furniture Design at Seoil University.
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Kwon Joon-ho
Kwon Joon-ho studied Visual Communication at the Royal College of Art (RCA) in the UK and taught graphic design at the same school for a year. His 2011 RCA graduation work, Life: The Life of a North Korean Woman , a typographic installation, was selected as one of the ‘Special Choices of the Year’ by the British magazine Creative Review. He was named ‘Rising Star of the Year’ at UK Design Week 2012 and one of the ‘20 Saatchi New Sensations’ at London’s … -
Kwon Jin
Kwon Jin is a contemporary art researcher and curator and currently works as the project director of the Seoul Mediacity Biennale at the Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA). He has been at the SeMA since 2016 after working at ARKO Art Center and the 4th Anyang Public Art Project (APAP), where he curated Ahn Sang-soo’s solo exhibition Nalgae.pati (2017), Latin American Contemporary Art Exhibition Work for the Future Past (2017–2018), Middle Eastern Contemporary Art Exhibition gohyang: home … -
Youngjoo Park
She earned her master’s degree in Visual Communication Design from the Department of Visual Design at Hongik University and the Graduate School of Art and Design at the University of Tsukuba. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Human Environmental Design at the Graduate School of Natural Science at Chiba University. She is a member of the Korea Package Design Association, VIDAK (Visual Information Design Association of Korea), and the Korean Society of Basic Design & Art. Her research … -
Park Chang-hyun
Based in Seoul, this architect designs architecture, spaces, and furniture. In 2013, they founded AROUND Architects, focusing on the social perspective of architecture. Their work spatially proposes connections between people in shared spaces and between buildings to foster neighborhood connectivity. Recent completed projects include the Third Place series of multi-family housing and the Jeongbalsan House. From 2002 to 2018, they taught architecture at Kyonggi University and Korea University. … -
Choi Jeong-ho
A Pioneer of modern Korean type design and typeface research. He moved to Japan, where he worked at a printing company, mastering various printing techniques, and studied at Yodobashi Art Academy. In 1957, he developed the Dong-A Publishing Typeface, which received high acclaim. In the early 1970s, he collaborated with Japanese phototypesetting companies Shaken (寫硏) and Morisawa (モリサワ) to create Hangeul typefaces. In his later years, he focused on writing and researching the philosophy and … -
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국민대학교 공업디자인학과와 테크노디자인전문대학원 교수. 사용자 경험 디자인, 인터페이스 디자인, 인간공학 관련 과목을 강의하며, 디자인 방법론, 제품 기반 UX 디자인을 연구하고 있다. ADR 최우수 논문상을 받았으며, 근래에는 생성형 인공지능 기술과 툴을 디자인에 활용하는 효과와 가능성에 관심을 두고 있다. -
Ahn Sang-soo
Ahn Sang-soo is a graphic designer and typographer with a keen interest in Korean visual culture. He studied in the Visual Communication Design Department at Hongik University, where he also completed his graduate studies. A former professor at his alma mater, he took early retirement in 2012 to establish the Paju Typography Institute, where he currently serves as the president, also known as ‘Nalgae.’ In 2007, he received the Gutenberg Prize from the city of Leipzig, Germany. He is also a … -
Jeong Yeon-suk
Graduated from the Department of English Literature at Sogang University and the Department of Political Science at the University of Winnipeg. She contributed to the Korean edition of Lonely Planet and has worked for several years on Korean-to-English and English-to-Korean translations for travel magazines, airline in-flight publications, and design journals. -
Simon Garfield
Simon Garfield was born in London in 1960. He is the author of an appealingly diverse and unpredictable canon of non-fiction, including the bestsellers Mauve, Just My Type and On The Map. He is a trustee of Mass Observation, and is the editor of several books of diaries from the archive, including Our Hidden Lives and A Notable Woman. His recent books include Timekeepers, In Miniature, and All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia. -
Kim So-eun
Graduated from Hongik University, Department of Industrial Design. She is active as a freelance illustrator in various fields such as product, advertising, video, and print. She has illustrated for Hansol Education’s ‘Finden Soundrug’, Duta’s ‘♡to♡ FESTIVAL’, YTN’s ‘Hello Weather’, 601 BISANG and SK m&c’s ‘MARK’. She created My First Helsinki in the second half of 2012 as a series of illustrations about Helsinki, … -
Shin Hyun-woo
A digital culture researcher specializing in critiques of information capitalism, game studies, and technology and information culture. Actively engaged in various writing projects. Co-authored the book Mario, Born in 1981.