Toyo Ito (born 1 June 1941) is a Japanese architect known for creating conceptual architecture, in which he seeks to simultaneously express the physical and virtual worlds. He is a leading exponent of architecture that addresses the contemporary notion of a “simulated” city, and has been called “one of the world’s most innovative and influential architects.” In 2013, Ito was awarded the Pritzker Prize, one of architecture’s most prestigious prizes. He was a …

Lee Jung-min graduated from Ewha Womans University, Faculty of Design and received her master’s degree from the Graduate School of Industrial Design with the thesis Strategies for Legal Protection of Service Design . Since 2013, she has been working as a researcher at the Korean Intellectual Property Office.

Suwa is a renowned live art illustrator based in Seoul. She became captivated by fashion’s ability to reflect diverse individuality and identity during her trips to Fashion Weeks around the world, leading her to start drawing people who caught her eye on the streets. Suwa studied fashion design at Parsons School of Design in New York and worked as a designer for several fashion brands including Michael Kors and Tommy Hilfiger. She later transitioned to illustration, collaborating on editorial …

Author of Portugal, Where Time Stands Still and A Walk Through Spanish Art Museums . She has also translated Korean-language guides for Spain’s renowned museums and landmarks, including the Prado Museum. Currently, she resides in Portugal.

Design critic. Graduated from the Department of Industrial Design and the Department of Aesthetics at Hongik University. Served as the editor-in-chief of the monthly magazine Design and as the editor of the design criticism journal Design Critique . Focused on critically analyzing Korean society and culture through the lens of design. Authored several books, including: A View on Korean Design , Where is Korean Design Heading? , Korean Design: Beyond the Myth , If I Had Read That Book in Those …

Kim Jin-woo is a professor at the Yonsei School of Business and the head of Yonsei HCI Lab. After earning his degree in Business Administration from Yonsei University, he began his career as a program developer. But he eventually realized that programming wasn’t his true calling, so he pursued an MBA at UCLA. Upon graduation, he worked as a systems consultant at KPMG, but his desire to make a more direct impact on people’s lives led him to Carnegie Mellon University, where he completed his …

Graduated with a degree in Interior Design from the École Municipale des Beaux-Arts Appliqués in Lyon, France, and worked as an interior designer at LG Chem. Currently, teaches and explores architectural spaces with students in the Department of Interior Architecture at Daegu Haany University.

Graduated with a primary major in English Education from Korea University. After completing military service and returning to school, he explored new fields and entered the world of design. Discovering an unexpected aptitude for it, he pursued Industrial Information Design as a second major and went on to earn a master’s degree from the same university. Currently, he runs the design company YOUNGLAB, participating in design projects for startups, SMEs, and large corporations domestically and …

He started his career as a font engineer with the first project, “Malgun Gothic”, the first Korean hinting font for UI. He developed various plugins for font editors and gave many technical lectures. He enjoys various collaborations and conversations with font designers. He is currently in charge of mobile font download service at Font Bank and operates Line Gap.

He was born in Zurich in 1914. After primary and secondary school in Zurich and vocational training as a caterer, he studied in Paris and earned a degree in French at the Cercle Commercial Suisse de Paris. He then worked as a commercial printer at a Zurich publishing house. He attended a weekly course in typesetting and letterpress at the Kunstgewerbeschule Zürich, where he learned typography from Alfred Willimann (1900-1957) and Walter Käh (1901-1970). In 1942 he was appointed permanent …

Lauren Daugherty, LMHC, ATR-P, is the Arts-based Wellness Experiences Manger and full-time art therapist at the Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University Bloomington. In this inaugural position at the museum, she established art therapy programming for individuals of all ages and abilities, including children from backgrounds of abuse and neglect, individuals with cognitive and developmental disabilities, and Indiana University students. She obtained her master’s degree in …

Jisoo Park is a professor in the Department of Emotional Engineering at Sangmyung University. She is one of South Korea’s first-generation UI designers, having begun studying UI design in 1991 as a master’s student in the Department of Industrial Engineering at KAIST. After earning her Ph.D. in UI design from the same graduate school, she worked at the Daewoo Electronics Design Research Center, collaborating with designers on product UI design. She also served as the lead researcher for the …