Lee Dong-guk is a Korean calligraphy researcher, curator, and current director of the Gyeonggi-do Museum. He has been an academic researcher at the Calligraphy Museum at the Arts Center of Korea for 35 years and has published Myth, Song of Life - From Petroglyphs to Atheists (1999), Two Thousand Years of Korean Calligraphy (2000), Ose Chang’s Pavilion. Collection World (2001), Heavenly Life, Sky of Fertility (2012), Special Exhibition on the 10th Anniversary of the Passing of Galesun Junggwang (2012), Korean Calligraphy × Latin Typography (2016), Kim Jong-young, Sculpting with Brushes (2017), From Chivas Ranch to Master (2017), The Beauty of the Monster of Chusa Kim Jung-hee (2018), Fantasia of Korean Folk Tales (2019), and The Moment of G (2021). His major works include The Aesthetics of the Monsters of Chusa (Conversations between Chusa Kim Jung-hee and Qing Dynasty Moonin, Arts Center of Korea, 2020) and 12 Stories of Art Exhibition Organizers (Han Gil Art, 2004).
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Lee Dong-guk
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Born in Tokyo in 1957, Mr. Takaoka is the President of Kazui Kobo, a limited company. After graduating from Kokugakuin University’s Law Department, he joined his father, Takaoka Juzo’s company, Kazui Kobo, and has been in his current position since 1995.He learned Latin alphabet typesetting and typography from his father. From 1999-2001, he served as an advisor to printing museums and workshops and gave lectures and talks on Latin alphabet typesetting, typography, and corporate …
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Chung Yeon-shim
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Kim Min-young
Typography consultant. He majored in visual design at Hongik University and received his master’s degree from Musashino Art University in Japan, where he proposed a new direction for CJK-Latin multilingual blending based on the history of multilingual typography and a study of modern and contemporary blending samples in his master’s thesis. After working at Japanese type foundries Morisawa and Fontworks, he founded the typography studio Em Dash in Tokyo, Japan. Based on his diverse … -
Choi Kyeong-hwa
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Jakob Schneider
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Lee Ji-eun
Graduated from the Department of Industrial Design at Hansung University in 1992 and completed a master’s program at the same university in 1997. In 2003, he graduated from the Visual Communication Design program at the University of Tsukuba, Japan, and in 2006, completed the doctoral coursework at the Graduate School of International Information and Communication at Waseda University. In 2012, he earned a Ph.D. from the Graduate School of International Media, Communication, and Tourism Studies … -
D&D Corporation
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Chung Kyung-won
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Hara Kenya
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Kim Eun-hae
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Karl Gerstner
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John Hill
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