Authors

Kim Hyun

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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 wallets to the symbols of the Blue House, the images he designed live with Koreans. He is one of the first experts in corporate image integration (CI) and brand identity (BI). In 2010, the Year of the Tiger, he celebrated his 40th anniversary as a designer.

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Pyo Hyun-myung

President of KT. In 2004, during his tenure as Vice President of Marketing at KTF, he played a pivotal role in introducing service design into corporate management and marketing activities in Korea. Drawing on his extensive experience as a corporate leader, he applied service design to KT’s innovations, leading to the creation of iconic branding campaigns such as Have a good time (2005), SHOW (2007), QOOK (2009), and the groundbreaking exclamation olleh (2010). These efforts marked a …
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.
Oh Gong-hoon

She graduated from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in German. After working as a pop culture critic and book editor for a publishing house, she is now a professional translator from German and English. His translations include Design Sosa , Locker bleiben mit dem inneren Schweinehund , A Realist’s Walk in Psychology , From Starlight to Dew and The Secret Library of a Science Editorial Fanatic .
Satoh Taku

Satoh Taku is a Japanese graphic designer born in Tokyo. He graduated in 1979 from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (currently Tokyo University of the Arts) in the Department of Design. He completed his master’s degree in 1981. In 1984 founded Taku Satoh Design Office after working at Dentsu Inc. His work in graphic design includes “Pleats Please Issey Miyake” and the logos of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa and the National Museum of …
Bas van Abel

He is the Creative Director at Waag Society, focusing on developing various projects based on open design principles. He is also the co-founder of Waag Society’s Fab Lab and the Instructables Restaurant. On a personal level, he is actively involved in the global maker and digital fabrication community.
Marc Stickdorn

He studied strategic management and marketing at the University of Trier in Germany. As the founder and consultant of Destinable, a service design company for the tourism industry, he has participated in various tourism projects across Europe. Since 2008, he has been teaching service design in the master’s program in Entrepreneurship and Tourism at Management Center Innsbruck(MCI) in Austria.
Oh Seok-hui

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 …
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.
Rhi Joo-myung

Rhi Joo-myung studied industrial design at Seoul National University and design management at Leicester Polytechnic in the UK. He joined LG Electronics when it was called Geumsung and gained practical experience in planning and product design for over 9 years. He taught product design, design methods, and design management at Inje University and now at Yonsei University Wonju Campus. He has long been interested in the qualitative nature of design and hopes to better understand the …
Kang Ye-jin

She studied journalism at Yonsei University and worked in marketing and public relations in the corporate world. While pursuing her master’s program in arts management at Carnegie Mellon University, she worked for the public art team at Pittsburgh City Hall and later worked as a design strategy manager in the corporate world. She is a graduate of the Gulbab Academy and currently works as a translator for BarTranslation.
Jeong Yeong-seon

CEO of Seoahn Total Landscape Architecture Co., Ltd. and an adjunct professor at the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Seoul National University. His notable works include the landscape design for the Won Dharma Center of Won Buddhism in the United States and the basic and detailed designs for the Amorepacific Technology Research Institute. She has received numerous awards for his projects, including the Environmental Culture Award (1998) for the traditional garden Heewon at the Ho-Am …
Muroga Kiyonori

He is the former editor-in-chief of Japan’s renowned design magazine Idea . Currently, he works as an editor, writer, and curator specializing in graphic design and typography.

Kim Hyun

김현

Pyo Hyun-myung

Jo Kim

Oh Gong-hoon

Satoh Taku

Bas van Abel

Marc Stickdorn

Oh Seok-hui

Park Min-gyu

Rhi Joo-myung

Kang Ye-jin

Jeong Yeong-seon

Muroga Kiyonori