A professor and doctoral advisor at the Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University, as well as the Executive Deputy Director of the Chinese Ancient Characters Art Research Center. He serves as Deputy Chair of the Visual Communication Design Department and holds a Ph.D. in Design. He is a member of the China Artists Association, a director of the Beijing Industrial Design Promotion Association, and notably participated as a torchbearer in the Beijing Olympics relay. He chaired the Visual Communication Design category for The Beauty of Chinese Characters’ Global Youth Design Contest and delivered a lecture on Chinese character design at UNESCO headquarters in Paris. He designed the first oracle bone script font and cursive script font, pioneering research-based design education and proposing the Rhythmic Structure (律格) design theory. In 2017, he organized the exhibition Recreate Oracle: Ancient Characters in the Context of Modern Design in Beijing and, in 2018, launched his first national touring exhibition, Chinese Characters & Rhythmic Structure: Chen Nan’s Perspective on Chinese Character Art & Design, at the Hubei Museum of Art.
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Chen Nan
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She studied interior architectural design at the Department of Sculpture, Seoul National University and the École Supérieure des Arts et Techniques (ESAT). She earned a master’s degree in interior architectural design from the Academy of Art University (AAU) Graduate School and a doctorate in environmental design from Yonsei University’s Graduate School of Housing and Environment. He is currently a professor at the Department of Environmental Design, College of Visual Arts, Incheon …
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Park Jeong-rye
She graduated from the Department of German Language and Literature at Hanyang University and has worked as a foreign rights agent for English- and German-language books at Imprima Korea Agency (IKA), introducing international books to the Korean market. Her translated works include What the Lion Says , A Week with the White Handkerchief , and Rosalie and the Mystery of Milk , among others. -
Song Geun-a
Studied Physics at the undergraduate level and completed a graduate degree in International English Education (TESOL). After finishing the publishing translation program at Glbab Academy, works as a translator affiliated with Barun Translation. Also teaches English original texts at local libraries and Havruta education centers. Translated works include Probable Impossibilities: Musings on Beginnings and Endings , Space: 10 Things You Should Know , Stan Lee , and Wuthering Heights … -
Park Ji-soo
Jisoo Park is a professor in the Department of Emotional Engineering at Sangmyung University. She is one of South Korea’s first-generation UI designers, having begun studying UI design in 1991 as a master’s student in the Department of Industrial Engineering at KAIST. After earning her Ph.D. in UI design from the same graduate school, she worked at the Daewoo Electronics Design Research Center, collaborating with designers on product UI design. She also served as the lead researcher for the … -
Suzy Lee
Suzy Lee studied painting in Korea and book arts in the UK and has published picture books internationally. Her work has garnered several prestigious awards, including the “2022 Hans Christian Andersen Award” “the Bologna Ragazzi Award”, “the Inchon Memorial Award” “The Korean Publishing Culture Award” and “The New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Book Award”. Among her most celebrated works are the picture books Summer , River , Wave , Shadow , The Black Bird , Alice in Wonderland , and … -
Studio 3
Studio 3 is an in-school design agency at the Graphic Design Department of Westerdals School of Communication in Oslo (Norway). Studio 3 was established in 2002 and exists of a handpicked selection of 15 truly dedicated 3rd year’s graphic design students. -
Nat McCully
Nat McCully worked at Claris Corporation and Apple Computer in Japanese product development, specializing in text layout, from 1991 to 1998. He then joined Adobe Systems as the lead engineer for the Japanese version of InDesign, implementing text composition and Japanese publishing workflow features. He has worked on Flash, AIR, RMSDK, and advised the teams on Photoshop, Illustrator, and Adobe Text Engine (ATE). He now works with the Spark and the XD teams on worldwide extensibility and … -
Frank Wagner
A designer and freelance curator, founder of the international design agency “hw.d”, which he led for 20 years. Over the course of his career, he has worked with various institutions, companies, brands, and designers on-site, while also publishing a magazine focused on new design cultures. He has curated exhibitions at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne and the Cobra Museum in Amsterdam. Currently, he resides in Munich, Germany. -
Lim Dae-geun
Im Dae-geun graduated from the Department of Western Painting and the Graduate School of Art Theory at Seoul National University and completed the Ph.D. coursework in Art History at the University of Melbourne. Since 1997, he has been primarily responsible for exhibition planning at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), organizing notable exhibitions such as «Multiple/Dialogues∞» (2009), «Untitled» (2015), «Cracks» (2018), «Park Iso: Records and Recollections» (2018), «MMCA … -
Kim Min-jung
She has worked as an editor for various magazines from Casa Living to the monthly Design . She loves the eclecticism of magazines, is interested in how to translate design into language, and specializes in planning and creating content. She is currently the editor-in-chief of C , a magazine published by GrandeClip. -
Ahn Young-joo
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 … -
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 …