He is the Creative Director of Fontworks Inc., a font design company he co-founded in 2005. With over 25 years of experience, he is recognized as one of South Korea’s leading type designers. He has developed corporate fonts for Samsung, Kakao, Naver, Hyundai Card, Nexon, the Korea Publishers Association, MBC, KBS, YTN News, Dong-A Ilbo, Lotte Mart, Daishin Securities, and LINE Japan, among others. His work includes commercial typefaces such as Yoon Gothic and Yoon Myungjo, Rix Gothic and Myungjo, the Rix Road Name series, the Rix Rock series and Rix Rock Variable, as well as various Rak fonts, including Rak Gothic and Myungjo Variable. To date, he has directed and developed approximately 1,000 typefaces. He has received numerous prestigious design awards, including the iF Design Award for Typeface Design, Red Dot Design Award, Good Design Award, Asia Design Prize Winner, German Universal Design Award, and the K-Design Award Grand Prix.
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Yongrak Park
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Professor Koo, Sang has been researched for mobility and automotive design over 30 years since his career in Kia Motors Design Center either California Design Research Center as a senior designer, and now works as a professor at Hongik University. He got a doctor degree at the Graduate School of SNU for the first turn. He wrote 12 books related to automotive design and two long novels. Nowadays, he is writing design critique columns in Medias for every week. So far, they’ve collected more …
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Ito Toyo
Toyo Ito (born 1 June 1941) is a Japanese architect known for creating conceptual architecture, in which he seeks to simultaneously express the physical and virtual worlds. He is a leading exponent of architecture that addresses the contemporary notion of a “simulated” city, and has been called “one of the world’s most innovative and influential architects.” In 2013, Ito was awarded the Pritzker Prize, one of architecture’s most prestigious prizes. He was a … -
Park Seong-eun
She graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in New York and earned a master’s degree from the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York. Her translated works include Drawing Lessons from the Great Masters , Force: Dynamic Life Drawing , and Sketch Your World , among others. -
Um So-young
Um So-young graduated from Korea University and is in charge of strategy formulation and service planning for data-driven decision-making at a domestic automobile company. She is currently working as a translator at Barun Translation. -
Noh Min-ji
She is a typeface designer based in Seoul. She received her master’s degree from Hongik University Graduate School with a research on Korean punctuation. He has been working as a typeface designer at the AG Typography Institute since 2012, after having worked at the Yoon Design Institute. She has developed typefaces such as Boeunche, Maleungullimche, and Bomnunche. -
Renate Raecke
Renate Raecke was born in 1943 in Lübeck, Germany. A German children’s book author and children’s literature critic. She studied literature and art history before working for various publishers and book shops. She has served as president and vice president of the German chapter of IBBY and is currently a member of the European chapter of IBBY. She has been a jury member for the BIB, Illustrator of the Year at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, the Deutscher … -
Chung Dah-young
Chung Dah-young is a curator at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, specializing in architecture and design exhibitions and writing. She has curated significant exhibitions, including Diary of Drawings: Chong Ki-yong Architecture Archive (2013), Itami Jun: Sculpting the Wind (2014), Experiments of Architopia (2015), Paper and Concrete: Korean Modern Architecture Movements 1987–1997 (2017), Kim Chung-up: Dialogue (2018), The Olympic Effect: Korean Architecture and Design of the … -
Moon Ju-hwa
Film critic. Debuted through the 2024 Cine21 Film Criticism Award and began working as a critic. Currently pursuing a Ph.D. in the Department of Art, Culture, and Film Studies at Pusan National University, conducting research on the representation of history in contemporary cinema. Has worked with institutions such as the Art Sonje Center, Gwangju Biennale, Busan Biennale, and Busan International Film Festival, participating in numerous exhibitions and projects. -
Ahn Jin-su
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 … -
Kim Jee-hyun
She studied graphic design at Seoul National University’s Department of Applied Arts and Graduate School of Design, and received his master’s degree in typography from Eastern Michigan University, USA. She has been teaching design at Hansung University since 1991. She was a research professor at Syracuse University in the United States and the third president of the Korean Typography Society. She is currently serving as the chairman of the Future Planning Committee and editorial … -
Tanaka Ikko
Ikko Tanaka was a Japanese graphic designer. Tanaka is widely recognized for his prolific body of interdisciplinary work, which includes graphic identity and visual matter for brands and corporations including Seibu Department Stores, Mazda, Issey Miyake, Hanae Mori, and Expo 85. He is credited with developing the foundational graphic identity for lifestyle brand Muji, emphasizing the “no brand” quality of their products through unadorned, charming line drawings paired with … -
Unmake Lab
Unmake Lab turns algorithmic obsessions into irony, allegory, and a form of humor using machine perception in an unconventional manner. Specifically, they superimpose the historical context of developmentalism with the resource extraction aspect of machine learning to shed light on contemporary socio-political and ecological situations. In recent times, their narratives have been constructed upon elements such as Generic Nature, disaster, datasets, and computer vision. Besides their artistic …