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, …

Kim Jong-Kyun graduated from Seoul National University with an undergraduate degree in Industrial Design and earned his doctor’s degree in Design from the same institution. He currently serves as an Administrative Officer at the Korean Intellectual Property Office. He is the author of several books, including Design in Korea and Design Wars , and has co-authored many others. Kim has published numerous papers on the history of Korean design, branding, and design intellectual property rights, and …

Born in 1929, he completed an apprenticeship in typesetting and later worked as an instructor. He taught photography and graphic design at various colleges and at the Zurich School of Design, while also serving as a teacher at the Zurich School of Industrial Design, where he developed lifelong learning programs in typographic design. His work spans book design for the cultural sector, exhibition catalogs, posters, and exhibition and installation design. A prolific writer, he has authored …

After graduating from the Department of Visual Information Design at Kyungpook National University, he majored in typography at the Department of Visual Communication (now Institute Digital Communication Environments, IDCE) of the Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst (HGK FHNW) in Basel, Switzerland. He received his master’s degree from the same school and the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) in the United States. He began teaching as a research assistant at the Basel University of …

A designer and design educator based in Seoul. He graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design and worked in web design and editorial design in New York and Boston. Currently, he is an assistant professor at Hongik University, where she continues his personal projects in editorial work, writing, and web design.

A leading authority in design management, he has served as the President of the Korea Institute of Design Promotion (KIDP) and the Chief of Design Seoul Headquarters for the Seoul Metropolitan Government. He studied Industrial Design at Seoul National University and its graduate school, earned a Master’s degree in Industrial Design from Syracuse University in the United States, and a Ph.D. in Design Strategy from Manchester Metropolitan University in the United Kingdom. He debuted as a designer …

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.

연세대학교 건축공학과를 졸업하고 하버드대학교 GSD(Graduate School of Design)에서 건축설계 석사 학위를 받았다. KVA(Kennedy & Violich Architecture), OMA(Office for Metropolitan Architecture), 사프디아키텍츠(Safdie Architects) 등 다양한 사무소에서 인턴과 실무 경험을 했다. 현재는 서울과학기술대학교 교수로 재직하며 OA-Lab 건축연구소를 설립해 활동한다. OA-Lab을 통해 실험적인 건축을 추구하고 연구와 실무를 오가며 작은 제품에서부터 건축물에 이르기까지 다양한 범위의 작업을 하고 있다. 관찰과 실험에 기반한 디자인이 우리의 일상과 사회 속에서 삶의 경험을 담고 긍정적으로 작동해 구현되는 것을 목표로 한다. 하버드대학교에서 졸업논문상 파이널리스트 및 추천장을 받으며 졸업했고, 이후에 AIA보스턴건축가협회의 주택공모전 대상, AIA국제지역건축가협회 대상 등을 수상했다.

A typeface designer and graphic designer who studied Graphic Design at Yeungnam University and Yale University. From 2014 to 2017, he worked as a type researcher and designer at Ahn Graphics’ Typography Institute, where he contributed to the creation of AG Choijeongho Typeface and AG Superblack Gothic. During the same period, he taught typeface design at the PaTI (Paju Typography Institute).

Riken Yamamoto, born 1945 in Beijing, China is a Japanese architect. In 2024, he received the Pritzker Architecture Prize, considered to be the most prestigious award in architecture, becoming the 9th Japanese architect to receive such honor.

He studied design in college and graduate school and received her PhD in design archive research. He has been practicing design curation and archival research since he worked as a chair designer at FURSYS Inc.’s and curated exhibitions such as droog design , Korean Design , and The New Vision from László Moholy-Nagy while working as a curator at the Design Museum at the Arts Center of Korea, and conducts workshops and research on maker culture and Korean design at Jayul Design Lab. He is …

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 …