Yoon Ho-seob is an environmental activist and South Korea’s first Green Designer. An emeritus professor of visual design at Kookmin University’s College of Architecture, he has pioneered work that combines design and the environment, education and the environment, and develops and provides design works to support environmental movements by students and private organizations. He is the author of books such as Yoon Ho-seob and Dreaming of a Green Campus .

‘삶 디자이너, 생활 방식 모험가, 노머니경제센터장, 잔액부족초기 족장, 생각 수집가, 넝마스터, 다거점 거주 생활 방식을 위한 장소 임대업자, 낮 시간 기획자.’ 이렇게 이상한 직업을 스스로 만들어낸다. 산업디자인을 전공했으나 산업이 모두의 삶을 위협하는 시대임을 깨닫고 삶 디자인으로 개종했다. 삶을 어떻게 살릴 것인가? 삶을 죽이는 것은 무엇인가? 삶을 어디서부터 바꿀 것인가? 이런 화두로 도시에서의 주거 문제, 자급 생산, 생활 기술, 이동 수단, 에너지 전환, 커뮤니티 공간 등을 작업으로 발표한다. “돈이 없는 사람은 있어도 삶이 없는 사람은 없다. 누구나 가지고 있는 삶을 기반으로 시작할 수 있다.”라는 좌우명을 되새기며 살아간다.

She has worked as an editor for various magazines from Casa Living to the monthly Design . She loves the eclecticism of magazines, is interested in how to translate design into language, and specializes in planning and creating content. She is currently the editor-in-chief of C , a magazine published by GrandeClip.

Born in 1888 in Lisbon, Portugal, and raised in Durban, South Africa. At the age of 17, he returned to Lisbon, where he worked as a translator for a trading company. He passed away in 1935, but after his death, a “trunk” found in his room contained an extensive collection of prose and poetry manuscripts, which were later published to great acclaim. Widely known for his exploration of multiple selves through writing under numerous heteronyms, his work has had a profound impact on …

Toshi Omagari is a font designer at Monotype in the UK. He studied typography and font design at Musashino Art University in Tokyo, graduating in 2008. Arcade Game Typography is his first book.

Lee Kyu-chul (1948-1994, Incheon) graduated from Hongik University in 1974, majoring in sculpture. In 1975, he left for Saudi Arabia, where he worked as an administrator and videographer for the Vinnell Company in the United States. In 1983, he entered graduate school at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, but returned home after three semesters. He had his first solo exhibition, Space and Visual Perception (Kwanhoon Museum of Art, 1988), which he spent time researching alone, and …

Jeong Jae-wan graduated from Hongik University with a degree in Visual Communication Design and began his career as a book designer at Jung Byung-kyu Publishing Design and Minumsa Publishing Group. Inspired by a strong interest in street letters, he has held four solo exhibitions titled Letterscape since 2008. In 2018, he presented Jeong Jae-wan: Book Design and also Letterscape (Bukseong-ro) in 2019 as an exhibition focused on regional visual culture. He has co-authored several books, …

주로 한국 서울에서 활동하는 필자, 통·번역가, 큐레이터다. 장서광으로, 동시대 미술과 이론 서가인 ‘서울리딩룸’(@seoulreadingroom)을 설립해 운영 중이다. 리서치 밴드 NHRB(@nhrb.space)에서 허영균과 함께 프론트맨으로 활동하고, 정성은, 김수지와 함께 스탠드업 코미디 모임인 ‘서촌코미디클럽’(@westvilalgecomedyclub)을 운영한다. 『마지막 혁명은 없다: 1980년 이후, 그 정치적 상상력의 예술』(현실문화연구, 2012), 『동시대-미술-비즈니스: 동시대 미술의 새로운 질서들』(부산현대미술관, 2021), 『현대미술, 이렇게 이해하면 되나요?』(부커스, 2022) 등을 번역했다.

Cynthia Busic-Snyder was born in central Ohio, where she was raised with two brothers by depression-era working class parents. She studied Visual Communication Design in the Department of Industrial Design at the Ohio State University where she developed an interest in both practicing and teaching graphic design. After working as a graphic designer and art director (identity, point of purchase, signage systems and print for both retail and business to business clients internationally) she …

AG Typography Institute was founded in 2012 as an affiliated institute of Ahn Graphics. We designs and develops typefaces based on in-depth studies, and aims to create new typeface culture and trend.

Born in 1963, he graduated from the Department of French Language and Literature at Korea University. He received his master’s and doctoral degrees in linguistics and semiotics from the University of Paris X in France. He was selected for the LG Yonam Foundation’s overseas research program and served as a visiting professor at the Department of Art History and the Institute of Linguistics at Oxford University in the UK, a visiting professor at Harvard University in the US as a …

Christopher Wolfgang John Alexander (1936–2022) was an Austrian-born British-American architect and design theorist. He was an emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley. His theories about the nature of human-centered design have affected fields beyond architecture, including urban design, software, and sociology. Alexander designed and personally built over 100 buildings, both as an architect and a general contractor. Alexander is best known for his 1977 book A Pattern …