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Kim Kai-chun

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He is an architect and designer, a professor at Kookmin University’s College of Architecture, and has specialized in architecture and Seon (Zen) philosophy. He has been working on architectural planning and design, painting and writing with ideas that cross over from Korean tradition and Seon thought to contemporary aesthetics. He has published books on Eastern architectural aesthetics such as “Architecture of Ming Ming” and “Lao Tzu and the Idea of Spatial Formation” and papers on the aesthetics of contemporary architecture. His representative buildings include Iham Campus, Gyeongju Dongguk University Seon Center, One Room House, Museum Myeongwon at the Kookmin University, and Gunmyungwon. He has been honored with the Red Dot Design Award, the Korean Institute of Architects Award, the Korea Design Award, and the Outstanding Book of the Year Award by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

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Frank Wagner

A designer and freelance curator, founder of the international design agency “hw.d”, which he led for 20 years. Over the course of his career, he has worked with various institutions, companies, brands, and designers on-site, while also publishing a magazine focused on new design cultures. He has curated exhibitions at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne and the Cobra Museum in Amsterdam. Currently, he resides in Munich, Germany.
Alexandra Klobouk

Alexandra Klobouk is an artist, author and culture & content illustrator working between Berlin and the rest of the world. In her work she combines visual storytelling, journalism, intercultural communication, travel sketching, music, performance and various other disciplines. Her work is vivid, fun and full of life, while it often tells stories of complex, difficult or unpleasant topics like Climate Change and Pollution, Gentrification, Fear of Strangers, the Holocaust or ignorance about …
James Craig

James Craig, a well-known author of books on graphic design, was born in Montreal, Canada. He studied fine arts in Montreal and Paris before immigrating to the United States. He received his BFA from The Cooper Union and his MFA from Yale University. Now semi-retired, Mr. Craig was the Design Director for Watson-Guptill Publications and is a member of the New York Art Directors Club, Association Typographique Internationale (ATypI), Type Directors Club (TDC), Typophiles, and a past member of …
Choon Choi

Choon Choi is a professor in the Department of Architecture at Seoul National University, leading the Architectural Culture Research Lab. His work focuses on reinterpreting and revitalizing the cultural values embedded in architectural heritage through restoration and regeneration projects. He has collaborated with curators to design exhibition spaces for events such as the “Gwangju Biennale” and the “Seoul Media City Biennale”. In partnership with artists, he worked on …
Lee Sung-pyo

An illustrator who believes in the comforting power of pictures. Starting with the magazine Madang in 1982, he has worked in various fields such as newspapers, magazines, books, picture books, and advertisements. He taught at Hongik University’s Visual Design Department and the Korea School of Illustration for many years. He illustrated the picture books Tiger , It’s raining , Boy , and Reading Poetry , and wrote and illustrated Blue Walk , I’m Big, You’re Small , and …
Kan Tai-Keung

An active design educator and artist, Kan Tai-keung is one of Hong Kong’s most famous graphic designers and noted ink painters. Born in 1942 in Pangyu, Guangdong, Kan has resided in Hong Kong since 1957. His passion for painting developed early on in his childhood, and his grandfather, Kan Yaosheng, a clay sculptor, encouraged his pursuit of art. Kan first studied art and design in 1964, and then watercolour painting and sketching with his uncle Kan May-tin. In 1967, he began attending …
Naka Toshiharu

Born in Kyoto Prefecture in 1976. Graduated from the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Tokyo in 1999, and completed a Master’s degree in Architecture at the Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo in 2001. After working at Riken Yamamoto & Field Shop, he established Naka Architecture Studio in 2009. Served as a design assistant at Y-GSA, Yokohama National University Graduate School from 2009 to 2011. Received the Young Architect …
Fujimori Terunobu

Fujimori Terunobu is a Japanese architect and architectural historian. He studied at Tōhoku University before entering graduate school at the University of Tokyo. Whilst writing his thesis in the 1970s Fujimori formed the Architecture Detectives. In this group he and his colleagues searched the city to find and photograph early Western-style buildings. During the 1970s and 1980s he made studies of the city about early Western buildings and unusual occurrences, and did not turn to architecture …
Um So-young

Um So-young graduated from Korea University and is in charge of strategy formulation and service planning for data-driven decision-making at a domestic automobile company. She is currently working as a translator at Barun Translation.
Ahn Sung-jin

Ahn Sung-jin graduated from the Department of Theater and Film at Chung-Ang University in 1993. He has been photographing musicians’ record jackets since 1992 and has photographed more than 500 albums. He has photographed corporate advertisements for Samsung, LG, Motorola, Hyundai, Kia, and SKT, as well as launch ads for sports brands such as Puma, Adidas, and LeCap, beauty brands such as Laneige and The Face Shop, and most of Korea’s casual fashion brands. To this day, he is still …
Han Baek-jin

Graduated from the Graduate School of Industrial Arts at Hongik University and has been actively involved as a member of the Korean Society of Brand Design, the Korean Society of Basic Visual Design, and VIDAK, as well as an invited designer at the Korea Industrial Design Exhibition. In 2005, served as a visiting professor at the University of Washington (UW) and is currently a professor in the Department of Visual Design at Dankook University’s College of Arts. Authored Brand Package …
Margaret Colquhoun

1947–2017. Goethean biologist and the Founding Director of the Life Science Trust, based at Pishwanton Wood in East Lothian, Scotland, at the foot of the Lammermuir Hills. She studied zoology and genetics with agricultural acience at Edinburgh University in the 1960s and worked there as a Research Associate in the 1970s on questions of population genetics and evolutionary biology. Later on, still carrying questions into the reality and relationship of taxonomy and evolution, she spent four …

Kim Kai-chun

김개천

Frank Wagner

Alexandra Klobouk

James Craig

Choon Choi

Lee Sung-pyo

Kan Tai-Keung

Naka Toshiharu

Fujimori Terunobu

Um So-young

Ahn Sung-jin

Han Baek-jin

Margaret Colquhoun