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Lee Suk-woo

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Lee Suk-woo graduated from Hongik University, worked for Samsung Electronics in South Korea, Fuse Project and Teague in the US, and acted as a global creative leader and chief designer at Google-Motorola, Korea. Following the establishment of the industrial design office SWNA in 2011, he established his own object brand, The Liberal Office. In 2015, he was selected as one of the top 10 Global Design Studios in the design concept category at the Red Dot Awards and received the Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy commendation at the 2018 Korea Design Awards and the Young Artist of the Day award in 2019 in the design category. In 2021, he was worked as an advisor-professor to Samsung Design Membership, and in the same year, was selected as a judge for Germany’s iF Award and the Brown Award.

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Ezio Manzini

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Kim Su-jung

She studied visual design at the Universitat der Kunste Berlin and typography and book design at the Hochschule fur Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig. She runs the design and publishing studio Raffinerie Press and teaches typography and book design.
Lee Kyu-won

She majored in Japanese at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. She has worked as an editor for many years, organizing books in various fields including science, humanities, and history. She is currently working as a professional translator. He has translated Miyuki Miyabe’s Reason , Seicho Matsumoto’s Masterpiece Short Story Collection , Alaska, A Story Like the Wind , Tadao Ando’s I, Architect , and more than 80 other books.
Lee sang-hoon

He graduated with honors from Hongik University, College of Fine Arts. He received his master’s degree in contextual design from Design Academy Eindhoven, the Netherlands, and his doctorate in educational psychology from Korea University. He was selected as a Korean Next Generation Design Leader by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy and is currently a professor at the Department of Design Convergence, College of Architecture, Hongik University.
Tanaka Ikko

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Kim Ju-sung

They graduated from the Graduate School of Industrial Arts at Hongik University. They have served as a researcher at Seoul Graphic Center, Creative Director at Type House and Inter Graphic, Production Director at Pureun Gamsung Co., Ltd., Vice President of the Korea Visual Information Design Association, Vice President of the Korean Society of Typography, and Vice President of the Korean Society of Basic Design & Art. They have participated in various exhibitions both domestic and …
Seo Ha-na

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Lucas Evers

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Ku Mo-a

After graduating from Konkuk University, she worked at Sandol Communication, a Korean type foundry, for five years, and as a researcher and team leader at AG Typography Research Center, she worked on several typeface projects, including “Sandoll LateSpring,” the Maru project “Maru Buri,” and the 87MM brand’s exclusive font “87MM ILSANG.” She has been conducting research and projects on screens and fonts since “AG Choijeongho Screen” and has been working on typeface design based on …
National Museum of Korea

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Jeong Jin-uk

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Moon Charn

He studied industrial design at the Department of Industrial Arts at Seoul National University and continued his industrial design studies in the graduate program there. He then earned an MFA in Industrial Design from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and worked at Daewoo Electronics. Beginning in 2005, he taught product design at the College of Arts at Hansung University. Currently, he is researching creative design concepts with engineering students in the Department of Smart …

Lee Suk-woo

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Ezio Manzini

Kim Su-jung

Lee Kyu-won

Lee sang-hoon

Tanaka Ikko

Kim Ju-sung

Seo Ha-na

Lucas Evers

Ku Mo-a

National Museum of Korea

Jeong Jin-uk

Moon Charn