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 director. Since 1964 he has worked as a designer, design consultant, writer and teacher. He redesigned more than 200 publications on four continents, and influenced many more with his books and articles about design for print. Initially focused on periodical design, in the mid-1980s White brought his analysis of the visual rhetoric of structure, white space and typographic hierarchy to bear on corporate publishing in a way that shared common ground with information design. As an educator ‘his most valued contribution for people trying to learn how to design has been his articulation, in very clear and easy-to-follow language, what publication design is about; and his insistence that it is not a mystery, but a rational activity of manipulating the elements of a publication in order to achieve certain defined communication outcomes.’ ‘White was an early proponent of the idea of design as being more than “good looks”.’ Author of more than a dozen books on editorial design including the 1974 landmark work, “Editing by Design” in which he first presented his original thesis that design is a clarifying tool rather than a decorative tool. “Editing by Design” is now in its fourth edition (co-authored by his son Alex W. White) and has been in continuous publication since 1974. In 2012, he dedicated several of his design books to the public domain. He was the son of the illustrator and architect Emil Weiss, and the father of the designer, writer and educator Alex W White. He is buried in New Canaan, Connecticut and is survived by his four sons and seven grandchildren.
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Graduated from the Department of Industrial Design at Hansung University in 1992 and completed a master’s program at the same university in 1997. In 2003, he graduated from the Visual Communication Design program at the University of Tsukuba, Japan, and in 2006, completed the doctoral coursework at the Graduate School of International Information and Communication at Waseda University. In 2012, he earned a Ph.D. from the Graduate School of International Media, Communication, and Tourism Studies …
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Kim Sun-hee
She graduated from Hongik University, College of Fine Arts, Department of Industrial Design and received his MFA from Pratt Institute Graduate School of Industrial Design. Since 1995, she has been a keynote professor at Samsung Art and Design Institute (SADI), and since 1999, she has been a research professor at Parsons School of Design and Pratt Institute’s Department of Industrial Design in New York City. Currently, she teaches three-dimensional sculpture at Parsons School of … -
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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 … -
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Kim Hyun-mi
She studied graphic design at Seoul National University and Rhode Island School of Design, USA. She started working at the advertising agency Oricom and worked on many identity design projects as a freelancer. She is currently a professor of communication design at Samsung Advanced Design Institute (SADI). She is the author of The New Typographic Revolutionary: Jan Tschichold , 33 Typeface Stories that Make Good Design , and Ode to Typography , as well as independently published artist books, … -
Kim Eun-hae
Born in Daegu, South Korea. She graduated from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies and earned his PhD from Charles University in Prague. She has taught Slavic languages and culture for many years at Yonsei University and Korea University. She has worked as an interpreter in the field of bilateral exchanges, including the Korea-Czech Republic summit. She fell in love with art, especially painting, when she realized that art is about human emotions such as desire, frustration, anger, and … -
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 … -
Jo Kim
Graphic designer. He majored in communication design at Hongik University, earned a master’s degree from Yale University and a PhD from Hongik University. He is the co-author of the A Dictionary of Typography published by Angraphics in 2012, published “Technical Problems in Multilingual Typography” (2016), and designed typefaces such as “Bemby” in 2017 and “Glyphs Sans” in 2018. He passed away in 2021. -
Lee Suk-woo
Lee Suk-woo graduated from Hongik University, worked for Samsung Electronics in South Korea, Fuse Project and Teague in the US, and acted as a global creative leader and chief designer at Google-Motorola, Korea. Following the establishment of the industrial design office SWNA in 2011, he established his own object brand, The Liberal Office. In 2015, he was selected as one of the top 10 Global Design Studios in the design concept category at the Red Dot Awards and received the Minister of Trade, … -
Adolf Loos
Adolf Franz Karl Viktor Maria Loos was an Austrian and Czechoslovak architect, influential European theorist, and a polemicist of modern architecture. He was inspired by modernism and a widely-known critic of the Art Nouveau movement. His controversial views and literary contributions sparked the establishment of the Vienna Secession movement and postmodernism. -
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대학에서 시각디자인을 공부하고 편집 디자이너로 커리어를 시작했다. 디자이너로서 인문학적 소양을 쌓고자 홍익대학교 대학원 미학과에 진학했다가, 디자인을 해석하고 표현하는 일에 소질이 있다는 사실을 깨달았다. 이후 다양한 매거진에 객원으로 참여하며 2013년 월간 『디자인』 기자로 정식 합류했고, 지금까지 디자인 전방위에 관련된 글을 쓰고 있다. 2021년부터 월간 『디자인』 편집장으로 활동 중이다. -
Kim Kyung-a
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.