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 Language, a perennial seller some four decades after publication. Reasoning that users are more sensitive to their needs than any architect could be, he collaborated with his students Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein, Max Jacobson, Ingrid King, and Shlomo Angel to produce a pattern language that would empower anyone to design and build at any scale. His other books include Notes on the Synthesis of Form, A City is Not a Tree, The Timeless Way of Building, A New Theory of Urban Design, and The Oregon Experiment. More recently he published the four-volume The Nature of Order: An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe, about his newer theories of “morphogenetic” processes, and The Battle for the Life and Beauty of the Earth, about the implementation of his theories in a large building project in Japan.
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A science journalist, filmmaker, and book creator, he began his career as a portrait photographer in London and has contributed articles on science, aerospace, and cosmology to various magazines in the UK and the US. From 2012 to 2018, he worked closely with Stanley Kubrick’s family on book projects and international exhibitions commemorating Kubrick’s films 2001: A Space Odyssey and Dr. Strangelove . He collaborated with NASA on a major retrospective celebrating its most iconic missions for …
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Han Jin-yeong
Graduated from the Department of English Language and Literature at Chonnam National University and spent nearly a decade working in publishing, creating books. Later transitioned to a full-time career as a translator. Notable translations include How to Write a Life , Living a Life of Writing , Seeking Meaning Outside Religion , The Bonobo’s House , People Skills , The Boy Who Lost His Shoes , and Diagrams: The Art of Organizing Thoughts . -
Jang Ji-seong
Graduated from the Department of Oriental Painting at Seoul National University and pursued further studies in Oriental Painting at the Graduate School of Hongik University and Art History at the Graduate School of Humanities at Dongguk University. Currently, he teaches in the Department of Art Education at Jeonju National University of Education and serves as a guest research fellow at the Kansong Art Museum. He has contributed to the 2009 and 2015 revised national curricula for elementary and … -
Yamamoto Riken
Riken Yamamoto, born 1945 in Beijing, China is a Japanese architect. In 2024, he received the Pritzker Architecture Prize, considered to be the most prestigious award in architecture, becoming the 9th Japanese architect to receive such honor. -
Kim Hyun
He is the CEO of Design Park, an invited artist at the Korea Design Exhibition, and a stamp reviewer at the Korea Postal Service, Ministry of Knowledge Economy. He graduated from Chung-Ang University and Konkuk University Graduate School of Education. After working as an art director in the design department of a large company, he opened his own office, Design Park, and has worked on over 400 corporate design projects, starting with the 1988 Seoul Olympics mascot, Hodol. From the cards in … -
Yorifuji Bunpei
Book designer, illustrator, art director, and author, whose witty work is active in various fields. After dropping out of Musashino Art University’s Visual Communication Design Department, he worked for the advertising company Hakuhodo. In 1988, he opened Yorifuji Design Office, and in 2000, he founded Bunpei Ginza, a limited company. In 2008, he won the 29th Kodansha Publishing Culture Award in the Book Design category for Life Miscellany Notebook and Designers Who Don’t Design . … -
Chung Kyung-won
A leading authority in design management, he has served as the President of the Korea Institute of Design Promotion (KIDP) and the Chief of Design Seoul Headquarters for the Seoul Metropolitan Government. He studied Industrial Design at Seoul National University and its graduate school, earned a Master’s degree in Industrial Design from Syracuse University in the United States, and a Ph.D. in Design Strategy from Manchester Metropolitan University in the United Kingdom. He debuted as a designer … -
Shin Hyun-woo
A digital culture researcher specializing in critiques of information capitalism, game studies, and technology and information culture. Actively engaged in various writing projects. Co-authored the book Mario, Born in 1981. -
Gerrit Noordzij
Typographer, type designer, book designer, author, historian, and educator. Born in 1931 in Rotterdam, Netherlands, he taught type design at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague from 1960 to 1990. Over three decades, he transformed the academy into one of the world’s leading institutions for type design education. He has influenced the field profoundly, producing numerous students who have become prominent type designers in Europe and the United States, collectively known as the “Hague … -
On architects inc.
Jung Woong-sik, a principal architect at ON Architects, graduated from the Department of Architecture at Ulsan National University. He is currently an adjunct professor at the College of Design and Architecture at Ulsan National University and works as a public architect for Busan Metropolitan City. Through his exploration of the value and possibilities of regional architecture, he aims to propose various models and propose various possibilities by building a relationship between people and … -
Koo Sang
Professor Koo, Sang has been researched for mobility and automotive design over 30 years since his career in Kia Motors Design Center either California Design Research Center as a senior designer, and now works as a professor at Hongik University. He got a doctor degree at the Graduate School of SNU for the first turn. He wrote 12 books related to automotive design and two long novels. Nowadays, he is writing design critique columns in Medias for every week. So far, they’ve collected more … -
Korea Craft & Design Foundation
The Korea Craft & Design Foundation (KCDF) is a public organization affiliated to the Korean Ministry of Sports, Culture and Tourism. The objective of the organization is to promote Korea’s craft, design and hanbok both in Korea and internationally. It is our responsibility to promote the field in order to create opportunities for young makers, artists and related groups. We focus on preserving our own cultural heritage by re-interpreting tradition, research on craft materials/skills and …