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Chae Sung-zin

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After graduating from the Department of Applied Arts at Seoul National University in 1985, he earned a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Industrial Design from Hongik University in 1987 and from the University of Michigan in 1990. In 2007, she completed her Ph.D. in Design Studies at Seoul National University with his dissertation, The Characteristics of Technology and the Formation of Product Archetypes (advisor: Lee Soon-jong). He served as an associate professor in the Department of Design Engineering at the Korea University of Technology and Education from 1994 to 2002. Since 2002, he has been a professor in the Department of Industrial Design within the Division of Design and the Arts at Yonsei University’s Wonju Campus. He is a member of the Korea Society of Industrial Designers and the Korean Society of Design Science.

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Renate Raecke

Renate Raecke was born in 1943 in Lübeck, Germany. A German children’s book author and children’s literature critic. She studied literature and art history before working for various publishers and book shops. She has served as president and vice president of the German chapter of IBBY and is currently a member of the European chapter of IBBY. She has been a jury member for the BIB, Illustrator of the Year at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, the Deutscher …
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 …
Omagari Toshi

Toshi Omagari is a font designer at Monotype in the UK. He studied typography and font design at Musashino Art University in Tokyo, graduating in 2008. Arcade Game Typography is his first book.
Kim Bong-ryol

He graduated from Seoul National University with a bachelor’s degree in architecture and earned a Ph.D. in engineering from the same graduate school, and studied at the AA School of Architecture in the United Kingdom. He has served as a professor and dean of architecture at Korea National University of Arts, and chairman of the Cultural Heritage Committee of the Cultural Heritage Administration. Based on his deep knowledge in the field of ancient architecture, he is working to popularize …
Lee Yu-jin

Lee Yu-jin graduated from Ewha Womans University with a B.A. in Sociology and received her M.A. in Art History from Hongik University. She has been engaged in art education for the general public, exhibition planning, and publishing activities at museums. She is the author of Critic Lee Il and the AG Group in the 1970s , Critic Lee Il Anthology and The Birth of a Hero among other books.
An Byeong-hak

With a keen interest in the relationship between text and image, he explores the boundaries where design and its adjacent fields intersect, grounded in typographic principles. He was a member of the visual culture experimental group Jindalrae and held solo exhibitions such as Arrangement of Fragments or a Spectacle (2014) and Juxtaposition (2013). He served as the general director for the 5th Typojanchi: Body and Typography (2016-2017), the 1st Public Design Festival Thematic Exhibition: …
Park Seong-eun

She graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in New York and earned a master’s degree from the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York. Her translated works include Drawing Lessons from the Great Masters , Force: Dynamic Life Drawing , and Sketch Your World , among others.
Seung H-Sang

Seung H-Sang graduated from Seoul National University and studied at Technische Universitaet in Wien. Worked for Kim Swoo-Geun from 1974 to 1989 and established his office “IROJE architects & planners” in 1989. He was a core member of “4.3 Group” which strongly influenced Korean architectural society, and participated in founding “Seoul School of Architecture” for a new educational system. His works are based on his own critical concerns on Western culture of the 20th century whose subject …
Leslie Xia

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Noh Eun-yu

Font designer and researcher. She founded Notype in 2018 and has been creating letters based on research and experimentation since then. She teaches typography at Konkuk University, Ewha Womans University, and Hongik University. She graduated from Hongik University’s Department of Visual Design in 2006, and received her master’s degree in 2008 with a thesis on “A study on the Hangul phonetic alphabet system for phonetic transcription of Japanese” and her doctorate in 2011 with a …
Ito Toyo

Toyo Ito (born 1 June 1941) is a Japanese architect known for creating conceptual architecture, in which he seeks to simultaneously express the physical and virtual worlds. He is a leading exponent of architecture that addresses the contemporary notion of a “simulated” city, and has been called “one of the world’s most innovative and influential architects.” In 2013, Ito was awarded the Pritzker Prize, one of architecture’s most prestigious prizes. He was a …
John Thackara

John Thackara is a writer, advisor and event producer. For more than thirty years he has traveled the world in a search of stories about the practical steps taken by communities to realise a sustainable future. He writes about these stories online, and in books; he uses them in talks for cities, and business; he also organizes festivals and events that bring the subjects of these stories together. He curated the celebrated Doors of Perception conference for 20 years – first in Amsterdam, later …

Chae Sung-zin

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Renate Raecke

Park Jaeyong

Omagari Toshi

Kim Bong-ryol

Lee Yu-jin

An Byeong-hak

Park Seong-eun

Seung H-Sang

Leslie Xia

Noh Eun-yu

Ito Toyo

John Thackara