The Arumjigi Foundation is a non-profit organization established in November 2001, dedicated to creatively preserving and passing down Korea’s traditional culture. Its mission is to rediscover the identity of Korean culture and cultivate new cultural heritage for future generations. Through efforts to care for Korea’s traditional cultural heritage and its surrounding environments, Arumjigi seeks to ensure that the values of tradition remain alive in modern life across clothing, food, and shelter. Arumjigi engages in a wide range of activities, such as maintaining the environments of Changdeokgung Palace and Jongmyo Shrine, beautifying the surroundings of old trees, designing signage for the Four Royal Palaces and Jongmyo Shrine, as well as for Haeinsa Temple, Hahoe Village, and Yangdong Village. It also hosts programs like the Arumjigi Academy, world heritage tours, special exhibitions, traditional music performances in hanok (traditional Korean houses), and research into traditional lifestyles. By operating hanok in Anguk-dong, Seoul, and Hamyang, Gyeongsangnam-do, Arumjigi enhances the value of hanok and explores innovative ways to utilize them. Moving forward, the foundation aims to explore the essence of Korean culture that connects the past, present, and future, setting exemplary cases for the modern inheritance of tradition.
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Dr. Peter Jones is Distinguished University Professor of Systemic Design at Tec de Monterrey, and an associate professor at Toronto’s OCAD University. He is a cofounder of the Systemic Design Association (systemic. design) and the RSD Symposia series, and is Editor in Chief of the SDA journal Contexts. Peter is the founder of Redesign Network, an innovation research firm, leading systemic and platform design and research in healthcare, informatics and media, and public sector strategy. He has …
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Han Jae-joon
Graduated with a focus on visual design from the College of Fine Arts and the Graduate School of Hongik University. Through the Text Abstraction project, he explored new possibilities and real-world issues related to Hangul, gradually expanding his work to include research and activities from a social perspective. From 1988 to 1995, he studied the fundamentals of Hangeul design under Dr. Kong Byung-woo, a pioneer in the mechanization of Hangul. Since 1989, he has developed and implemented … -
Kim Gyeong-cheol
He majored in visual design at the Department of Industrial Design at Chung-Ang University. After graduation, he worked as a designer at a branding design company, gaining experience in various projects centered around branding. After working at the design studio Handprint in 2009, he co-founded Everyday Practice with colleagues in 2013 and has been running it ever since. His primary focus lies in UX/UI design, particularly in interface design and website development that considers user … -
James Craig
James Craig, a well-known author of books on graphic design, was born in Montreal, Canada. He studied fine arts in Montreal and Paris before immigrating to the United States. He received his BFA from The Cooper Union and his MFA from Yale University. Now semi-retired, Mr. Craig was the Design Director for Watson-Guptill Publications and is a member of the New York Art Directors Club, Association Typographique Internationale (ATypI), Type Directors Club (TDC), Typophiles, and a past member of … -
John Hill
John Hill is an architect, freelance writer and editor, and published author. He grew up in Chicago, went to architecture school in Kansas, and then moved to New York City after working at an architecture firm in Chicago for ten years. Since the move to NYC in 2006 he has written seven books on architecture. The latest, Buildings in Print , surveys 100 seminal architecture books published since Le Corbusier’s Towards a New Architecture . -
Im Nam-sook
Graduated from the Department of Ceramics at Ewha Womans University. She majored in Graphic Design at Braunschweig University of Art (Braunschweig Kunsthochschule) in Germany and earned a Ph.D. in Design Philosophy from the same institution. Currently, she is a professor in the Department of Art Education at Daegu National University of Education. -
Hwang Su-hyun
A journalist for The Hankook Ilbo , she majored in Clothing and Textiles at Hanyang University. Her career spans magazines and weekly publications before transitioning to a daily newspaper, where she has been working as a journalist for a decade. Her reporting began with fashion and has since expanded to cover architecture, art, food, design, publishing, and pop culture. In 2014, she wrote the serialized feature Living in Small Houses , introducing compact homes across Korea. With a natural … -
Park Jung-jun
After graduating from the Department of Western Painting at Seoul National University, he opened an art studio called LHOOQ, where he worked sporadically. By chance, he began writing and co-authored a high school art textbook for the 2012 academic year. He is currently exploring new projects while working on art technique theory books. -
Oh Chang-sup
As a researcher in design history and culture, he won the best paper award from the Korean Society of Design Science in 2013 and curated the exhibition Hello, Stranger at Culture Station Seoul 284. His published books include We Are Not You, and You Are Not Us , The Counterattack of Modernity , Kitsch Around Me , Design Read Through 9 Keywords , Walking Through Artificial Paradise , and This Is Not a Chair: In Search of Meta-Design. He currently serves as a professor at the College of Art and … -
Jan Middendorp
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. -
Kim Hyo-jeong
She majored in psychology and English literature at Yonsei University. She graduated from Glbab Academy and is currently working as a translator at Barun translation. His books include The Dollhouse , The Good Girl , Someone Knows , Writing Strategies to Capture Your Heart , What Your Emotions Tell You , The Psychology of Situations , How the Best Education is Made , How to Make a Difference , 75 Survival Wisdom from the Wilderness , The Philosophical Teenager Changes the World and more. -
Fernando Pessoa
Born in 1888 in Lisbon, Portugal, and raised in Durban, South Africa. At the age of 17, he returned to Lisbon, where he worked as a translator for a trading company. He passed away in 1935, but after his death, a “trunk” found in his room contained an extensive collection of prose and poetry manuscripts, which were later published to great acclaim. Widely known for his exploration of multiple selves through writing under numerous heteronyms, his work has had a profound impact on …