After majoring in video animation, he worked as a designer at SBS Digital News Lab’s Operational Content Team, overseeing the design of various brands and contents such as ‘SUBUSU NEWS’ and ‘MMTG’. Since 2021, he has also been designing eco-friendly commerce brand 175Planet.

IDR is a combination of letters reminiscent of ordinary English words such as idea and ideal. It is intended to be a more free architecture that responds flexibly to various external conditions without being bound by a specific logic or theory. Questioning what is taken for granted in our cities and architecture is the starting point of his work, and he is particularly interested in the role of architecture as a mediating background between users and everyday life.

Hirano Kouga graduated from the Department of Visual Communication Design at Musashino Art University and worked in the PR department of Takashimaya before becoming a freelance graphic designer. Beginning in the 1960s, he actively participated in the underground theater scene, creating numerous posters. From 1964 to 1992, he was responsible for book design at Shobunsha Publishing, where he designed nearly all of its publications. His contributions earned him the Kodansha Publishing Culture …

1947–2017. Goethean biologist and the Founding Director of the Life Science Trust, based at Pishwanton Wood in East Lothian, Scotland, at the foot of the Lammermuir Hills. She studied zoology and genetics with agricultural acience at Edinburgh University in the 1960s and worked there as a Research Associate in the 1970s on questions of population genetics and evolutionary biology. Later on, still carrying questions into the reality and relationship of taxonomy and evolution, she spent four …

Jan V. White (1928-2014) was an American designer, communication design consultant, and graphic design educator and writer. Czech by birth, he was educated in England at Leighton Park School and held degrees in architecture from Cornell University and Columbia University School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. From 1951 to 1964 he worked on two of TIME’s architectural magazines: Architectural Forum (1951–56) as associate art director, and House & Home (1956-1964) as art …

Studied Visual Design at Kaywon University of Art and Design. He is a graphic designer, application developer, and amateur musician. He runs the graphic design studio Guho Choi and is the developer, designer, and operator of Paperman, an app designed to assist with book production.

Jennifer Tobias is a scholar andillustrator. She holds a PhD in Art History from the City University of NewYork, an MLS from Rutgers, and a BFA from Cooper Union. She provided reader services at the Museum of Modern Art and Parsons School of Design libraries. Her illustrations are included in Health Design Thinking and Design is Storytelling, both by Ellen Lupton. She and Lupton are looking forward publication of Extra Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Subversive, Non-Binary Field Guide for Graphic …

Design critic. Professor Emeritus at Musashino Art University and Honorary Fellow at the Royal College of Art. Born in Kobe in 1946. Graduated from Musashino Art University. After working as an editor, became an associate professor at Tokyo Zōkei University in 1983. Started at his current position in 1996. His works include Design no 20 seiki (The 20th Century of Design) (NHK Shuppan, 1992), Housework no seiji gaku (The Politics of Housework) (Seidosha, 1995), and Nichijitsu no bunka shi (The …

A licensed architect in South Korea, serving as an advisory partner at BOUNDLESS (경계없는 작업실) and the CEO of ZERO TO N. After graduating from the Department of Architecture at Seoul National University, he gained practical experience at Hanul Architects and later founded Boundless Studio. At Boundless Studio, he recognized the necessity of integrated value across space development, planning, design, and construction. This insight led to the establishment of Zero to N, a comprehensive construction …

Akasegawa Genpei was a pseudonym of Japanese artist Akasegawa Katsuhiko (赤瀬川克彦), born March 27, 1937 in Yokohama. He used another pseudonym, Otsuji Katsuhiko (尾辻克彦), for literary works. A member of the influential artist groups Neo-Dada Organizers and Hi-Red Center, Akasegawa went on to maintain a multi-disciplinary practice throughout his career as an individual artist. In 1986, Akasegawa and his collaborators, Terunobu Fujimori and Shinbo Minami, to announce the formation of a new group: …

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 …

After studying Biology and German Literature at Sogang University, they began working at an international patent law firm. Following their completion of the Gulbab Academy program, they have been working as a translator affiliated with Barun Translation . Their translated works include Demian , Beneath the Wheel , Capture the Moment for Me , and Capture the Moment for Love .