A graphic designer and Professor Emeritus at Seoul National University, he is the Honorary President of the Korean Federation of Design Organizations. Throughout his illustrious career, he has held numerous influential positions in the field of design: Jury Member for the Asia Digital Art and Design Awards (2001–2007), Honorary Doctorate in Design from Dongseo University (2001), International Jury Member for Hong Kong Design Show 98 (1998), Founding President of the Korea Society of Visual Information Design (1996), Dean of the Graduate School of Design at Dongseo University (1986–1989), Dean of the College of Fine Arts at Seoul National University (1984–1987), President of the Korean Society of Visual Design (1980–1983, 1972-1975). He also served as an international jury member for the Morisawa International Typeface Design Competition, making significant contributions to both Korean and global design communities.
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Cho Young-jae
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Design critic. Graduated from the Department of Industrial Design and the Department of Aesthetics at Hongik University. Served as the editor-in-chief of the monthly magazine Design and as the editor of the design criticism journal Design Critique . Focused on critically analyzing Korean society and culture through the lens of design. Authored several books, including: A View on Korean Design , Where is Korean Design Heading? , Korean Design: Beyond the Myth , If I Had Read That Book in Those …
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Yoon Hee-su
She graduated from Hongik University and Hochschule der Kuenste, Berlin, and received her PhD in Fine Arts from Hongik University Graduate School. She is a professor of art education at Gongju University College of Education, and has been experimenting with design and initiative. She is constantly reading the time and space of discarded objects. She has held ten solo exhibitions and participated in more than 40 group exhibitions. He is the author of Basic Design , a co-authored book, and a … -
Lee Jin-ryeol
A full professor in the Design Management program of the Department of Design Engineering at Chosun University. He graduated from the Department of Business Administration at Chonbuk National University, where he also earned a master’s degree in Design Management and a Ph.D. in Business Administration. He previously served as a senior researcher at the IBRD Design Development Research Institute and the Design Strategy Development Team at R&C KOREA. Actively engaged in various academic … -
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 … -
Kim Sung-do
Born in 1963, he graduated from the Department of French Language and Literature at Korea University. He received his master’s and doctoral degrees in linguistics and semiotics from the University of Paris X in France. He was selected for the LG Yonam Foundation’s overseas research program and served as a visiting professor at the Department of Art History and the Institute of Linguistics at Oxford University in the UK, a visiting professor at Harvard University in the US as a … -
Chon Seung-il
An adjunct professor in the Department of Spatial Production at Kaywon University of Art and Design and an automata artist. As the director of Studio Mimesis and Automata Workshop, he is actively involved in animation, automata, and kinetic art through education, exhibitions, and various projects. He co-authored the book Automata Workshop and has showcased his work in notable exhibitions such as ‹Chon Seung-il’s Thinking Automata› (2017), ‹Goguryeo Mural Automata› (2017), ‹Friends of the … -
Kim Hee-young
She graduated from Seoul National University’s College of Arts and Humanities with a B.A. in English Literature and received her M.A. in Fine Arts from the same graduate school. She earned an MA in art history from the University of Chicago and a PhD in art history from the University of Iowa. She is currently a professor in the Department of Art at Kookmin University College of Art. She is the author of Korean Abstract Painting: A Formation of Korean Avant-Garde (2013), The Vestige of … -
Sohyun Park
She is a professor specializing in Digital Culture Policy at the IT Policy Graduate School of Seoul National University of Science and Technology. She has authored works such as Memory of War and the Theory of the Cultural State , The Ethical Future of Museums – Focusing on the Genealogy of Museum Activism , The Demographic Turn in Cultural Policy and the Policy Status of Artists , Alternative Paths (and Media) of the Lee Jung-seop Myth – Focusing on the 1970s Biographies and Films on Lee … -
Christopher Alexander
Christopher Wolfgang John Alexander (1936–2022) was an Austrian-born British-American architect and design theorist. He was an emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley. His theories about the nature of human-centered design have affected fields beyond architecture, including urban design, software, and sociology. Alexander designed and personally built over 100 buildings, both as an architect and a general contractor. Alexander is best known for his 1977 book A Pattern … -
Ko Il-hong
She graduated from the Department of Archaeology and Art History at Seoul National University and received her MA and PhD in archaeology from the University of Sheffield, UK. She has taught at Seoul National University, KyungHee University, Soongsil University, and Chungnam National University, and was a research professor at the HK Research Institute of Humanities at Seoul National University, and is currently a senior researcher at the Seoul National University Asia Center. She is the … -
Gilda Williams
Based in London since 1994, Dr. Gilda Williams is a contemporary art critic and teacher; editor of ON&BY Andy Warhol (MIT/Whitechapel Press, 2016); and author of the bestselling art book How to Write about Contemporary Art (Thames & Hudson, 2014), now published in seven languages. From 2008-23 Williams was Senior Lecturer on the MFA Curating programme at Goldsmiths College (University of London), where she taught art writing. Dr. Williams has also taught at the The Ruskin School of Art, … -
Kim Min-young
Typography consultant. He majored in visual design at Hongik University and received his master’s degree from Musashino Art University in Japan, where he proposed a new direction for CJK-Latin multilingual blending based on the history of multilingual typography and a study of modern and contemporary blending samples in his master’s thesis. After working at Japanese type foundries Morisawa and Fontworks, he founded the typography studio Em Dash in Tokyo, Japan. Based on his diverse …