Kwon Jin is a contemporary art researcher and curator and currently works as the project director of the Seoul Mediacity Biennale at the Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA). He has been at the SeMA since 2016 after working at ARKO Art Center and the 4th Anyang Public Art Project (APAP), where he curated Ahn Sang-soo’s solo exhibition Nalgae.pati (2017), Latin American Contemporary Art Exhibition Work for the Future Past (2017–2018), Middle Eastern Contemporary Art Exhibition gohyang: home (2019–2020), and Lee Bul’s solo exhibition LEE BUL—Beginning (2021) and compiled the accompanying book. His major works include “The Allegory of ‘Beginning’” (LEE BUL—Beginning, Seoul Museum of Art; BB&M; MediaBus; BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE, 2021) and “Garden and mountain going too, as we slowly walk” (Kang Seung Lee, Gallery Hyundai, 2024).
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Kwon Jin
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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.
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Jiyo Architects
Kim Se-jin is an architectural practice founded in 2015 after graduating from Seoul National University’s Department of Architecture and Graduate School of Architecture. His architectural work begins with the surface of paper and evolves into profound expressions of individuality and universal sensory experience. He served as a Seoul Public Architect in 2016 and has taught at Seoul National University’s design studio. Her accolades include winning the design competition for the Chebu-dong … -
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Founded in 2004 , this design studio was established by Swiss designers Augustin Scott de Martinville, Grégoire Jeanmonod, and Elric Petit . Having met as friends at the École Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne (ECAL) , they have built a solid team dynamic and an optimistic design approach , creating practical yet distinctive everyday objects . Their work has been recognized with numerous awards, including the Swiss Design Award, iF Design Award, and Good Design Award . Their designs are part of the … -
Nat McCully
Nat McCully worked at Claris Corporation and Apple Computer in Japanese product development, specializing in text layout, from 1991 to 1998. He then joined Adobe Systems as the lead engineer for the Japanese version of InDesign, implementing text composition and Japanese publishing workflow features. He has worked on Flash, AIR, RMSDK, and advised the teams on Photoshop, Illustrator, and Adobe Text Engine (ATE). He now works with the Spark and the XD teams on worldwide extensibility and … -
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 … -
Park Chang-hyun
Based in Seoul, this architect designs architecture, spaces, and furniture. In 2013, they founded AROUND Architects, focusing on the social perspective of architecture. Their work spatially proposes connections between people in shared spaces and between buildings to foster neighborhood connectivity. Recent completed projects include the Third Place series of multi-family housing and the Jeongbalsan House. From 2002 to 2018, they taught architecture at Kyonggi University and Korea University. … -
Andrew Haslam
Following an undergraduate degree in Graphic Information Design and a postgraduate teaching qualification, he completed a postgraduate degree at the Royal College of Art. He worked for the Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (Netherlands Broadcasting Service) and later for Sebastian Conran Associates before co-founding a studio in East London with Russel Warren-Fisher and Hannah Tofts. He authored and designed a series of 32 non-fiction children’s books covering science, history, and geography, which … -
John Thackara
John Thackara is a writer, advisor and event producer. For more than thirty years he has traveled the world in a search of stories about the practical steps taken by communities to realise a sustainable future. He writes about these stories online, and in books; he uses them in talks for cities, and business; he also organizes festivals and events that bring the subjects of these stories together. He curated the celebrated Doors of Perception conference for 20 years – first in Amsterdam, later … -
Jang Ji-seong
Graduated from the Department of Oriental Painting at Seoul National University and pursued further studies in Oriental Painting at the Graduate School of Hongik University and Art History at the Graduate School of Humanities at Dongguk University. Currently, he teaches in the Department of Art Education at Jeonju National University of Education and serves as a guest research fellow at the Kansong Art Museum. He has contributed to the 2009 and 2015 revised national curricula for elementary and … -
Kim Eun-hae
Born in Daegu, South Korea. She graduated from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies and earned his PhD from Charles University in Prague. She has taught Slavic languages and culture for many years at Yonsei University and Korea University. She has worked as an interpreter in the field of bilateral exchanges, including the Korea-Czech Republic summit. She fell in love with art, especially painting, when she realized that art is about human emotions such as desire, frustration, anger, and … -
Kyuwon Park
He graduated from Hongik University and its graduate school. He served as the president of the Korea Brand Design Society, was an invited designer at the Korea Industrial Design Exhibition, and worked as an exchange professor at San Francisco State University. He also served as the dean of the College of Design and the dean of the Graduate School at Hanyang University, where he is currently a professor. His published works include Contemporary Package Design and Package Structure Design , among … -
SOKO
정혜선, 권민성이 공동으로 운영하는 장황 디자인 스튜디오이다. 이름 SOKO는 Something of Korea의 준말로, 한국 장황이 도달할 수 있는 미지의 가능성을 의미한다. 디자인, 교육, 출판 등 다양한 활동과 장황을 접목하여 전통과 현대를 잇는 새로운 지평을 열고자 한다.