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.