Authors

Oh Chang-sup

오창섭

As a researcher in design history and culture, he won the best paper award from the Korean Society of Design Science in 2013 and curated the exhibition Hello, Stranger at Culture Station Seoul 284. His published books include We Are Not You, and You Are Not Us, The Counterattack of Modernity, Kitsch Around Me, Design Read Through 9 Keywords, Walking Through Artificial Paradise, and This Is Not a Chair: In Search of Meta-Design. He currently serves as a professor at the College of Art and Design at Konkuk University and runs the Meta Design Research Lab.

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Bong Seong-chang

2005년 경향게임스에서 게임 전문기자를 시작으로, 지디넷코리아 산업팀장, 씨넷코리아 편집장을 거치며 IT 전문기자로, 매일경제TV 산업팀장과 비즈한국 산업팀장을 거쳐 경제 전문기자로 전문 영역을 꾸준히 확대해 왔다. 2017년부터 비즈한국에서 개최하는 ‘브랜드비즈 컨퍼런스’를 기획 총괄하며, 기업의 브랜딩 및 디자인 전반에도 관심이 많다.
Koo Bohnchang

Koo Bohnchang is one of Korea’s most renowned photographers, celebrated for his exploration of experimental qualities of photography. After earning his degree in Business Administration from Yonsei University, he studied photography design at the HFBK University of Fine Arts in Hamburg, Germany, where he received his diploma (Diploma Fotodesign). Since the beginning of his career in 1987 with Alexio, he has photographed brand catalogs for Esquire and Non-no and produced fashion spreads for …
Paul Rand

1914–1996. Graphic designer, art director, book designer, children’s book author, and design educator. A second-generation Jewish American, he studied at Pratt Institute and Parsons School of Design. Beginning with media promotion and magazine cover design, he expanded into roles as an art director for advertising agencies and worked extensively in packaging, book illustration, typography, and corporate branding. He designed logos for major companies including IBM, ABC, UPS, and NeXT. A …
Massimo Vignelli

He was born in Italy in 1931 and studied architecture in Milan and Venice from 1950 to 1957. After actively engaging in various projects, including designing posters and graphic materials for the 1964 Venice Biennale, he moved to the United States in 1956. In Chicago, he co-founded Unimark International, and in 1971, together with his wife and business partner Lella, established Vignelli Associates in New York. From 1966 to 1980, he worked on the graphic program for Knoll; in 1966, he designed …
Chen Nan

A professor and doctoral advisor at the Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University, as well as the Executive Deputy Director of the Chinese Ancient Characters Art Research Center. He serves as Deputy Chair of the Visual Communication Design Department and holds a Ph.D. in Design. He is a member of the China Artists Association, a director of the Beijing Industrial Design Promotion Association, and notably participated as a torchbearer in the Beijing Olympics relay. He chaired the Visual …
Yang Ok-kum

Yang Ok-kum studied Performance Design at Central Saint Martins College of Art in the UK, completed an MA in Art and Space (Curating) at Kingston University Graduate School, and completed a certificate program in Museum Studies at Harvard University. She began her career as an intern at the List Visual Arts Center at MIT, where she worked as a curator at Gallery SSamji, the Dean of Academic Affairs at Hansol Cultural Foundation (now Museum SAN), and Chief Curator at Hyundai Card, and is …
Chung Kyung-won

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 …
Park Hey-kyung

She studied Western painting at Seoul National University College of Fine Arts and its graduate school. She received a master’s degree in interior design from Drexel University in the United States and a doctorate in architectural planning from Kyungpook National University’s Graduate School of Engineering. She is currently a professor at Inje University’s Department of Design.
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 …
Yang Ye-kyu

Graduated from Dongduk Women’s University College of Arts, Department of Visual Design and its graduate school, and completed the web design course at Fashion Institute Technology (F.I.T) in New York, USA. Worked as a designer at the advertising production team of Samhee Planning Co., Ltd., the predecessor of advertising agency Hancom Co., Ltd., and taught CI and computer graphics at Dongduk Women’s University Department of Visual Design. Currently working as the head of the design …
Ahn Young-joo

Ahn Young-joo graduated from Hongik University, Department of Art, and received her doctorate from the same university with a thesis titled “Critical Discourse on Vernacular Design and Political Possibilities.” She has lectured on various design cultural theories such as design and material culture, design history, and craft theory at Hongik University and Konkuk University, and is currently an adjunct professor at Konkuk University’s Department of Industrial Design. Her publications include …
Gilda Williams

Based in London since 1994, Dr. Gilda Williams is a contemporary art critic and teacher; editor of ON&BY Andy Warhol (MIT/Whitechapel Press, 2016); and author of the bestselling art book How to Write about Contemporary Art (Thames & Hudson, 2014), now published in seven languages. From 2008-23 Williams was Senior Lecturer on the MFA Curating programme at Goldsmiths College (University of London), where she taught art writing. Dr. Williams has also taught at the The Ruskin School of Art, …

Oh Chang-sup

오창섭

Bong Seong-chang

Koo Bohnchang

Paul Rand

Massimo Vignelli

Chen Nan

Yang Ok-kum

Chung Kyung-won

Park Hey-kyung

Choi Sung-min

Yang Ye-kyu

Ahn Young-joo

Gilda Williams