Leonard Koren was born in New York City and raised in Los Angeles. While a teenager he designed and built a full-scale Japanese tea house out of scavenged materials. While an undergraduate student at UCLA, Koren was awarded a fellowship to pursue experiments in photographic process. He also worked as an exhibition installer at the university’s fine arts and ethnographic museums. In 1969 Koren quit school and co-founded the Los Angeles Fine Arts Squad, a trompe l’oeil mural painting group that executed large-scale outdoor commissions in Los Angeles and Paris. One of the murals, “Beverly Hills Siddhartha,” covered 5,000 square meters and took a year to complete. Tired of painting, Koren returned to UCLA and received a master’s degree in architecture and urban planning. From 1973 through 1976 Koren worked as an artist creating bath events, unusual bathing environments, and paper works about bathing. In 1976 Koren founded WET: THE MAGAZINE OF GOURMET BATHING, an avant-garde publication seminal in the development of postmodern aesthetics. Burned out on magazine publishing, Koren shut WET down in late 1981 and began a series of sojourns to Tokyo to work on music videos for Japanese television. From 1983 through 1986 Koren produced a twice-monthly column titled “Dr. Leonardo’s Guide to Cultural Anthropology” for BRUTUS, a popular Japanese lifestyle magazine. In 1984 Koren wrote and designed New Fashion Japan, a book about the world of Japanese fashion past and present. Stimulated by the book-making process, he continued to make more books. Many of these books are featured on this website.
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Leonard Koren
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He majored in visual design at Hongik University and was first introduced to photography through the photography club HIPS. In 2007, she started working as a commercial photographer and photographed many products such as Kerasis, Coway, and SWBK, as well as I Love You, Ji-seon (Munhakdongne), Seasonal Food Shop for Me (Panmidong), and Graphic (Propaganda). He started taking fashion photos while sharing an office with the fashion brand Brownbreath, and through a chance introduction to Cy Choi, …
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ZERO PER ZERO
ZERO PER ZERO is a design studio founded in Seoul in 2008. We focus on themes of ‘EARTH, TRAVEL, LOVE,’ creating a wide range of graphic designs and illustrations that capture precious moments discovered in travel and everyday life. Initially inspired by themes related to travel, we have since expanded to include warm family portraits, dogs, cats, flowers, and national treasures, continually building our own graphic dictionary. Through our work, we aim to celebrate and share the … -
Yoon Je-won
Yoon Je-won majored in geography education and aesthetics at Seoul National University and graduated from the Gumbap Academy. She was very interested in performing arts, art, and video, which she was exposed to in college, and was active in performance festivals and film festivals. She pursues natural translation by utilizing her long experience in video translation and is interested in various fields such as education, cooking, philosophy, art, and foreign languages, and strives to convey … -
Chris Ro
Chris Ro is a graphic designer based in Seoul, South Korea working on projects spanning both the cultural and commercial sector. Originally educated at UC Berkeley and the Rhode Island School of Design, the thinking behind Chris’ work connects a diverse range of concepts spanning architecture, graphic design, typography, motion, photography and form making. His work has been honored by the New York Type Directors Club, Tokyo Type Directors Club, Art Directors Club Global, Communication Arts … -
FHHH Friends
FHHH Friends is an architecture firm composed of three principals—Yoon Hanjin, Han Seungjae, and Han Yangkyu —along with six team members. The three principals first crossed paths as colleagues at Designcamp Moonpark (DMP) and have been working together since 2013. Their work is rooted in a deep understanding of urban contexts, showcasing originality and creativity across a range of projects. In recognition of their contributions to the field, they were named Young Architects of 2019 . -
Kim Hyo-jeong
She majored in psychology and English literature at Yonsei University. She graduated from Glbab Academy and is currently working as a translator at Barun translation. His books include The Dollhouse , The Good Girl , Someone Knows , Writing Strategies to Capture Your Heart , What Your Emotions Tell You , The Psychology of Situations , How the Best Education is Made , How to Make a Difference , 75 Survival Wisdom from the Wilderness , The Philosophical Teenager Changes the World and more. -
Choi Sung-min
Choi Sulki and Choi Sung-min are graphic designers working around Seoul, South Korea. They met at Yale University where they both earned their MFA degrees. After working as researchers at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, they returned to Korea in 2005 to start their own practice. Since then, they have created graphic identities, promotional materials, publications and websites for many cultural institutions and individuals. From 2010 until 2013, they worked as graphic designers of the … -
Hyundai Motor Company
Hyundai Motor Company is a global leader in the automotive industry that exports vehicles to over 200 countries and has established production facilities worldwide. As the pioneer of Korea’s automotive industry, Hyundai made history with the development of the nation’s first independently designed model, the Pony. The company has continued its legacy of innovation via the introduction of the world’s first mass-produced hydrogen fuel cell vehicle, XCIENT Fuel Cell, and the expansion its … -
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 … -
Kim Kyung-a
Dreaming of the big world, she worked as an expatriate in China. After returning to Korea, she utilized her experience in China to plan and edit foreign books at a publishing house. While creating books, she realized that books are like friends that touch people’s hearts. This sparked her interest in reading therapy and counseling, and she is currently studying counseling. -
Adolf Loos
Adolf Franz Karl Viktor Maria Loos was an Austrian and Czechoslovak architect, influential European theorist, and a polemicist of modern architecture. He was inspired by modernism and a widely-known critic of the Art Nouveau movement. His controversial views and literary contributions sparked the establishment of the Vienna Secession movement and postmodernism. -
Choi Kyeong-hwa
Author of Portugal, Where Time Stands Still and A Walk Through Spanish Art Museums . She has also translated Korean-language guides for Spain’s renowned museums and landmarks, including the Prado Museum. Currently, she resides in Portugal.