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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Christopher Alexander
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Dreaming of the big world, she worked as an expatriate in China. After returning to Korea, she utilized her experience in China to plan and edit foreign books at a publishing house. While creating books, she realized that books are like friends that touch people’s hearts. This sparked her interest in reading therapy and counseling, and she is currently studying counseling.
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Kim Sang-kyu
He studied design in college and graduate school and received her PhD in design archive research. He has been practicing design curation and archival research since he worked as a chair designer at FURSYS Inc.’s and curated exhibitions such as droog design , Korean Design , and The New Vision from László Moholy-Nagy while working as a curator at the Design Museum at the Arts Center of Korea, and conducts workshops and research on maker culture and Korean design at Jayul Design Lab. He is … -
Hyundai Motor Company
Hyundai Motor Company is a global leader in the automotive industry that exports vehicles to over 200 countries and has established production facilities worldwide. As the pioneer of Korea’s automotive industry, Hyundai made history with the development of the nation’s first independently designed model, the Pony. The company has continued its legacy of innovation via the introduction of the world’s first mass-produced hydrogen fuel cell vehicle, XCIENT Fuel Cell, and the expansion its … -
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 … -
AG Typography Institute
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Jasper Morrison
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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 … -
Park Min-gyu
He graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York and the Paju Typography School. He has been fascinated with typography since he was young, living in Canada, where he designed the ParkMingyu typeface and worked at the AG Typography Institute, where he developed the AG Choijeongho Minburi Std. He is currently working as a freelancer. -
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 … -
Park Hyun-taek
Majored in visual design at Hongik University and lectured at several universities before coming across the National Museum of Korea, where work has continued for over twenty years. While working in the fields of ‘museums,’ ‘design,’ and ‘culture,’ doubts arose about the fact that design was being absorbed only in external decoration. Reevaluating design led to confronting the question of ‘why and for whom to design,’ rather than ‘how to design.’ This process led to the realization that design … -
Cho Sung-hyeon
A partner at BOUNDLESS(경계없는작업실) and the CEO of Spacewalk. After graduating from the Department of Architecture at Seoul National University, he gained practical experience at iArc before co-founding BOUNDLESS. Currently, he oversees business development for the team and focuses on solving architectural and urban issues through Spacewalk, an independent startup spun off from BOUNDLESS’s in-house technology team, BOUNDLESS-X, which collaborates with various experts and technologies. He has … -
Kwon Min-ho
Drawer, illustrator. He studied visual communication at Central Saint Martins and the Royal College of Art (RCA) postgraduate program. His work is based on drawing and new media, blurring the boundaries between illustration and fine art painting. He has worked with Factum-Arte, Bompas & Parr, Jotta studio, and RA in London, and has won awards such as the Jerwood Drawing Prize, V&A Illustration Awards, and RCA Sustain, a London design festival. He has presented and curated exhibitions …