Alexandra Klobouk is an artist, author and culture & content illustrator working between Berlin and the rest of the world. In her work she combines visual storytelling, journalism, intercultural communication, travel sketching, music, performance and various other disciplines. Her work is vivid, fun and full of life, while it often tells stories of complex, difficult or unpleasant topics like Climate Change and Pollution, Gentrification, Fear of Strangers, the Holocaust or ignorance about Islam or the Turkish culture. She does it with a special power of observation and a in a way that makes it easy to engage, to lose the fear of contact, to want to know more. Her books have been awarded most beautiful German books several times and were published by various publishers as Suhrkamp, Insel Verlag, C.H. Beck, Verlag Antje Kunstmann, Onkel&Onkel and Viel&Mehr. She weekly illustrates the column GEHEN by Christian Seiler for DER KURIER and works for Magazines such as Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, ZEITMagazin, Merian, Das Magazin of Zurich Tagesanzeiger, and others. She has been collaborating with Goethe-Institut and several other cultural and political innitiatives.
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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 …
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Josh A. Halstead
Josh Halstead is an epistemic activist working at the intersection of critical disability studies, design pedagogy, and community organizing. A recognized contributor to disability design discourse, they seek to unsettle and rupture normative systems of thought by centering marginalized perspectives. Halstead has been an invited lecturer in academic and industry settings—from Stanford to Google—and is co-author of the forthcoming book Extra Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-Racist, Non-Binary … -
Renate Menzi
Renate Menzi enjoyed a craft-based design education at the Kunstgewerbeschule Zürich, which she continued at the Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem. Having graduated in 1996, she worked as an assistant at the Chair of Visual Design in the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich and studied Theory of Design and Art at the Zurich University of the Arts. Since 2008, she is the curator of the design collection at the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich where she teaches, collects, researches and publishes in … -
Shur Ki-heun
Graphic designer and professor in the Department of Visual Design at Gachon University. He has served as the president of the Korea Society of Visual Information Design and the Korea Society of Basic Design & Art. He received the Art Division Award at the 2008 Korean Culture and Arts Awards and the Education Division Award at the 2012 Korea New Knowledge Management Awards. -
Park Hyo-shin
He majored in visual design at Hongik University College of Fine Arts. He studied graphic design at Rhode Island School of Design and received a Ph.D. in art from Sungkyunkwan University. He worked as a graphic designer at Ssangyong Group Public Relations Office and Samsung Electronics Overseas Headquarters, and was a professor at Hanyang University College of Design, Samsung Design Institute (SADI), and Samsung Design Research Institute (IDS). As of 2016, he is a professor of Information … -
Jang Yeong-jin
Graduated with a primary major in English Education from Korea University. After completing military service and returning to school, he explored new fields and entered the world of design. Discovering an unexpected aptitude for it, he pursued Industrial Information Design as a second major and went on to earn a master’s degree from the same university. Currently, he runs the design company YOUNGLAB, participating in design projects for startups, SMEs, and large corporations domestically and … -
Satoh Taku
Satoh Taku is a Japanese graphic designer born in Tokyo. He graduated in 1979 from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (currently Tokyo University of the Arts) in the Department of Design. He completed his master’s degree in 1981. In 1984 founded Taku Satoh Design Office after working at Dentsu Inc. His work in graphic design includes “Pleats Please Issey Miyake” and the logos of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa and the National Museum of … -
Hwal
‘Life designer, lifestyle adventurer, director of the No Money Economic Center, chieftain of the early days of the shortage of balance, thought collector, rag master, place lessor for the multi-base living lifestyle, daytime planner.’ He creates such strange jobs for himself. He majored in industrial design, but converted to life design after realizing that industry is threatening everyone’s life. How can we save life? What kills life? Where can we start to change life? With these topics in … -
Park Jaeyong
He is a writer, translator, and curator primarily based in Seoul, South Korea. A bibliophile, he founded and operates Seoul Reading Room (@seoulreadingroom), a contemporary art and theory library. He is also a frontman of the research band NHRB (@nhrb.space) alongside Heo Youngkyun, and co-runs the stand-up comedy group Seochon Comedy Club (@westvillagecomedyclub) with Jung Sung-eun and Kim Su-ji. His translated works include There Is No Last Revolution: Art and Political Imagination Since 1980 … -
Pyo Hyun-myung
President of KT. In 2004, during his tenure as Vice President of Marketing at KTF, he played a pivotal role in introducing service design into corporate management and marketing activities in Korea. Drawing on his extensive experience as a corporate leader, he applied service design to KT’s innovations, leading to the creation of iconic branding campaigns such as Have a good time (2005), SHOW (2007), QOOK (2009), and the groundbreaking exclamation olleh (2010). These efforts marked a … -
Kim Sun-hee
She graduated from Hongik University, College of Fine Arts, Department of Industrial Design and received his MFA from Pratt Institute Graduate School of Industrial Design. Since 1995, she has been a keynote professor at Samsung Art and Design Institute (SADI), and since 1999, she has been a research professor at Parsons School of Design and Pratt Institute’s Department of Industrial Design in New York City. Currently, she teaches three-dimensional sculpture at Parsons School of … -
Zo Za-yong
Born in Hwangju, Hwanghae-do, he graduated from Pyongyang Teachers’ College (平壤師範學校) at the age of 18 and briefly worked as an elementary school teacher. After the liberation of Korea, he moved south, worked as a houseboy for the U.S. military, and at 22, went to study in the United States. He graduated from Wesleyan College and Vanderbilt University and earned a master’s degree in Structural Engineering from Harvard University. Returning to Korea in 1954, he pursued a career in …