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Kwon Min-ho

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Drawer, illustrator. He studied visual communication at Central Saint Martins and the Royal College of Art (RCA) postgraduate program. His work is based on drawing and new media, blurring the boundaries between illustration and fine art painting. He has worked with Factum-Arte, Bompas & Parr, Jotta studio, and RA in London, and has won awards such as the Jerwood Drawing Prize, V&A Illustration Awards, and RCA Sustain, a London design festival. He has presented and curated exhibitions such as the Deoksugung Palace Project at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, and TypoZanchi 2017. In 2019, he presented a new media exhibition based on drawings at the Culturetank, The dawn bell rang, a new morning has dawned. He teaches visual narrative in the master’s and doctoral programs at Seoul National University of Design and is the head of the Paju Typography School Illustration Studio (PaTI.is).

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ArchiWorkshop

We are Architects, who think, create, enjoy and share everyday Architecture. The title ‘ArchiWorkshop’ has two meanings. One is ‘workshop of artisans’, and the other is the meaning of ‘attacking and defending to each other through discussion’. From a result perspective of view, architecture is a visual work. But at the same time, its origin accompanies philosophy and rational thinking. For that reason, we discuss and converse as much as sketching and this …
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 …
Jung Eui-chul

He studied design at Seoul National University and the Institute of Design (ID) at the Illinois Institute of Technology. During his undergraduate years, he founded the design group ABLE Inc. and worked on numerous product and UX projects at TriGem Computer and the HCI Research Lab at Motorola’s headquarters in the U.S. He has received the Korea Industrial Design Award and the Red Dot Design Competition Award. He has served as an Adjunct Faculty member at the Illinois Institute of Technology and …
Kiura Mikio

Born and raised in Osaka. He has two master degrees in computer science at Nara Institute of Science and Technology and design at Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design. Currently, he runs his award-winning design studio ANKR DESIGN in Tokyo and designs new products and services with his clients. He thoroughly understands the Japanese manufacturing industry, as well as, the workflow of large companies and startups in Japan. He also has a profound knowledge of Japan’s unique culture and …
Lee Yil

Lee-Yil is an art critic who made a significant contribution to recognizing and establishing the concept of art criticism and review in the Korean art world from the 1960s to the 1990s. Born in 1932 in Gangseo, South Pyongan Province, Lee was a student at Seoul National University, where he was active as a literary youth, organizing the ‘Literature and Literature Society’ and appearing as a poet. After dropping out of college, he studied abroad in France in 1956, where he completed …
Axel Ewald

Axel Ewald studied sculpture and art education at Alanus School of Art in Germany. He has taught sculpture, drawing, Goethean observation and art history for more than twenty years in Germany, Great Britain, the United States, and Israel. He has been a member of staff at Emerson College in Great Britain for five years. In cooperation with biologist Margaret Colquhoun, Axel developed a series of Goethean science and art courses in Great Britain as well as New Eyes for Plants, a workbook for …
Akasegawa Genpei

Akasegawa Genpei was a pseudonym of Japanese artist Akasegawa Katsuhiko (赤瀬川克彦), born March 27, 1937 in Yokohama. He used another pseudonym, Otsuji Katsuhiko (尾辻克彦), for literary works. A member of the influential artist groups Neo-Dada Organizers and Hi-Red Center, Akasegawa went on to maintain a multi-disciplinary practice throughout his career as an individual artist. In 1986, Akasegawa and his collaborators, Terunobu Fujimori and Shinbo Minami, to announce the formation of a new group: …
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 .
Shin Hyun-woo

A digital culture researcher specializing in critiques of information capitalism, game studies, and technology and information culture. Actively engaged in various writing projects. Co-authored the book Mario, Born in 1981.
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 …
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 …
Fiona Raby

Fiona Raby, of Dunne & Raby, is a professor at The New School in New York, where she teaches Social Research Through Design , and a fellow at the Graduate Institute for Design Ethnography and Social Thought. From 2011 to 2016, she was a professor of Industrial Design (ID2) at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, and from 2005 to 2015, she served as a professor of Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art (RCA) in London. Raby studied architecture at RCA and worked at Irie Keiichi …

Kwon Min-ho

권민호

ArchiWorkshop

James Craig

Jung Eui-chul

Kiura Mikio

Lee Yil

Axel Ewald

Akasegawa Genpei

Oh Gong-hoon

Shin Hyun-woo

John Thackara

Pyo Hyun-myung

Fiona Raby