Jakob Schneider is partner and creative director at KD1 design agency, co-founder of More than Metrics and Smaply, designer and editor of This is Service Design Doing and This is Service Design Thinking.

Kaleena Sales is a writer, illustrator, and graphic design educator at Tennessee State University, an HBCU (Historically Black College and University), in Nashville, TN. She is endlessly interested in the intersection of Black culture and aesthetics and believes that identities and experiences have an invaluable role in helping to diversify the ways in which designers solve problems. Through her service on AIGA’s Design Educators Community Steering Committee, Kaleena advocated for a more …

After graduating from Sogang University with a degree in History , they earned both their master’s and doctoral degrees in Art History from Dongguk University . Since 1991, they have been cultivating a deep understanding of Korean history and culture at Kansong Art Museum , where they have been actively lecturing and writing, particularly on Joseon-era painting and Korean art. Currently serving as the Director of Research at Kansong Art Museum , they also teach Korean and East Asian art at …

He graduated from Yonsei University’s Department of Korean Language and Literature and received his Ph.D. from the same graduate school. He was a researcher at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies and is currently a university lecturer and translator. He is the author of The Renaissance Man Kim Seung-ok (co-author), and the translator of I Am a Cat , Kokoro , The Light of Illusion, Story of the Crusades, Cut Off, Those Praying Hands, The Birth of Form, We All Return Home,* and other books. …

A designer and design educator based in Seoul. He graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design and worked in web design and editorial design in New York and Boston. Currently, he is an assistant professor at Hongik University, where she continues his personal projects in editorial work, writing, and web design.

Practice Designer.

Yuka aims for sensible translations that capture the nuances of the original, and will continue to introduce Chinese-language books that are both entertaining and meaningful.

Leslie Xia is a queer Chinese American art director. They studied graphic design at the Maryland Institute College of Art and have worked for companies like the Foundry at Meredith, Men’s Health , VICE News, and Fast Company . Their personal work focuses on race, gender identity, and social justice.

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 …

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 …

An independent curator, operating the curatorial agency RARY and co-managing the curator platform WESS . Previously, they have worked as a curator at the independent cultural space Agit in Busan, editorial team leader for the art and culture criticism magazine BIART , coordinator for Jeju Biennale 2017: Tourism , curator at Tongui-dong Boan Inn , and associate curator for the 2024 Busan Biennale: Seeing in the Dark . Their work revolves around questioning how the fundamental nature of art …

Oh Seok-hui is an interdisciplinary engineer exploring metaverses, extended reality, user experience design, generative AI, games, and animation. He is currently a PD at the Cultural Contents Technology Promotion Center of the Korea Creative Content Agency, leading research and development projects and project planning in the field of cultural contents. As a professor of computer science at Gachon University, he has conducted research and development on augmented reality (AR), virtual reality …