In his long tenure at The Ohio State University (OSU), Charles A. Charles Wallschlaeger was instrumental in creating one of the first full-scale industrial design departments at the university level. In more than 30 years there – including 19 as department chair, Charles influenced countless students and design educators.

Majored in Aesthetics at university and admires musicians who compose and transcribe invisible music. Believes that love resembles music in its essence. During times of turbulence, instead of leaning on a prewritten life, he embraces her uncertainties and writes imperfect sentences as if transcribing music, striving to play his future more vividly. He is the publisher of 《ESSAI》, an independent magazine for minimalists, and the author of 『Etudes on Love』.

Chung Yeon-shim is professor of Art History and Theory (예술학과) at Hongik University in Seoul, South Korea. She received her Ph.D. in art history at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Dr Chung’s research interests encompass both modern and contemporary Western and East Asian art. Before teaching at Hongik, Dr Chung was an assistant professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City and a researcher for the exhibition The World of Nam June Paik at the Guggenheim …

홍익대학교 미술대학을 졸업하고 동 대학원에서 석사를 취득했다. 부퍼탈대학교(Bergische Universität Wuppertal) 대학원에서 조형예술학박사를 취득했다. 전 홍익대학교 조형대학 교수, 한독공학대학원대학교 예술공학연구센터장을 역임했다. 현재 (사)한국기초조형학회 수석부회장이자 조형매체공학연구소 소장을 맡고 있다.

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.

‘Artist Proof’ is a print & design label run by an artist, Kyungjoo Choi. The artist, working based in Seoul, embodies multi-layered inner structures in layers of overlapped colours and refined symbols. By experimenting with images she created and crossing the boundaries of art genres, ‘Artist Proof’ has done various projects such as producing items, holding exhibitions, and collaborative art projects.

He runs the graphic design studio Occupy the City and is based in Seoul. He curated and organized the exhibition Occupy the City: Typozimmer Nr. 7 and participated in other exhibitions such as Korean Design: Transforming Forms and Tools of Communication . He is currently an adjunct professor at Konkuk University and teaches graphic design and typography at various universities.

그래픽 디자이너. 601비상 대표. 국제그래픽연맹(agi) 회원. 1988년 홍익대학교 미술대학 시각디자인과, 1999년 홍익대학교 광고홍보대학원 광고홍보학과를 졸업하고 2002–2005년 홍익대학교 미술대학 시각디자인과 겸임교수, 1993–1997년 제일기획 커뮤니케이션아트팀 아트 디렉터, 1988–1992년 쌍용그룹 홍보실 디자이너로 일했다.

He is an art critic and visiting professor at Yonsei University’s Graduate School of Communication, and holds a PhD from the University of Iowa, USA, with a “The origin of Korean Trauerspiel”. In 2015, he was awarded the inaugural SeMA-Hana Art Criticism Award, the first national art criticism award established by the Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA). His recent publications include “The Blind Past and the Eternal Return of Global Civil War: Difference and Repetition in Omer Fasth …

Ahngraphics is a Korean design publishing company and company founded by visual designer Sangsoo Ahn on February 8, 1985. It was converted to a stock company in 1990 and has grown into a comprehensive design company covering four sectors: design, digital, media, and publishing. It was the first design company to introduce DTP into practice, and contributed to the development of Korean graphic design through high-quality editorial design centered on letters. It celebrated its 30th anniversary in …

Typographer, type designer, book designer, author, historian, and educator. Born in 1931 in Rotterdam, Netherlands, he taught type design at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague from 1960 to 1990. Over three decades, he transformed the academy into one of the world’s leading institutions for type design education. He has influenced the field profoundly, producing numerous students who have become prominent type designers in Europe and the United States, collectively known as the “Hague …

Cody Choi(b.1961), who has consistently been active as a visual artist and cultural theorist since the 1980s, explores the cultural identity and relationship of authority within contemporary society. Choi touches upon topics of cultural maldigestion, third-culture created by the clash of different cultures, the beauty of such hybridism, and simultaneously occurring new social phenomena—all of which Choi experienced as a foreigner in the US. Choi gained his stature as a world-renowned artist …