Authors

Tsuzuki Kyoichi

都築響一

Kyoichi Tsuzuki was born in Tokyo in 1956. From 1976 to 1986, he was a freelance editor for the influential men’s fashion and lifestyle magazines Popeye and Brutus, where he wrote on contemporary art, design, urban living, and related topics. From 1989 to 1992, he published Art Random (Kyoto Shoin), a 102-volume series covering 1980s trends in global contemporary art. He continues to write and edit works on contemporary art, architecture, photography, design, and more. In 1993, he released the photobook Tokyo Style (Kyoto Shoin), which depicts the living spaces of Tokyoites in a raw, unfiltered context; in 1997, he received the Kimura Ihei Award for his photobook Roadside Japan (Aspect, 1997), which marked the start of a still-ongoing project to document roadside subjects both in Japan and abroad.

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Kim Eun-young

She started her career as a book designer at a design-focused publishing house and now works as a planner building on her foundation in design. As she strived to truly understand her work, she ended up writing her third book and became someone who shares knowledge in front of others. Although she has experienced design and publishing as professional fields, she places more emphasis on design and bookmaking as part of everyday life and general education. Since August 2012, she has been teaching …
Yun Suh-young

SuhYoung Yun is the former Cultural and Public Affairs Officer at the Embassy of Switzerland in Seoul. She spent part of her childhood in Switzerland while accompanying her diplomat father on his posting in Geneva. She holds a BA in International Studies from Ewha Womans University and an MA in Strategic Design and Management from Parsons School of Design. Her career spans over a decade as a culture and travel journalist, contributing to newspapers, magazines, radio, and television. She …
Amorepacific

Amorepacific Corporation is a South Korean beauty and cosmetics chaebol, operating more than 30 beauty, personal care, and health brands. The firm was founded in 1945 by Sungwhan Suh and currently managed by Kyungbae Suh, the son of the founder. It is the largest cosmetics company in South Korea and one of the 10 largest cosmetics companies in the world.
Park Jeong-hoon

He majored in Korean literature and photography. He has held photography exhibitions including Black Light , Distant Mountain , Seasons , and Every Little Step . He has translated several works by Leonard Koren into Korean, including Wabi-Sabi: Just Here , This Is Not Zen: Gardens of Pebbles and Sand , What Artists Are , and Wabi-Sabi: Simply Like This .
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 …
Jan Tschichold

Jan Tschichold also known as Iwan Tschichold or Ivan Tschichold, was a German calligrapher, typographer and book designer. He played a significant role in the development of graphic design in the 20th century – first, by developing and promoting principles of typographic modernism, and subsequently idealizing conservative typographic structures. His direction of the visual identity of Penguin Books in the decade following World War II served as a model for the burgeoning design practice of …
Korean Society of Typography

The Korean Society of Typography (hereafter KST) is an academic organization in South Korea, started in 2009. The KST supports many design activities to diversify the visual communication field. Some of which include the journal LetterSeed , academic conferences, annual exhibitions as well special committees on Korean typography, typographic terminology, digital typography education, international typography biennale, and a diverse range of research.
Lee Soo-kyung

Lee Soo-kyung is an assistant professor at Ewha Womans University’s Hawkman College of Liberal Arts. She teaches Liberal Arts English and American Ethnic and Cultural Fiction.
Yoo Yoon-seok

Practice Designer.
Kim So-eun

Graduated from Hongik University, Department of Industrial Design. She is active as a freelance illustrator in various fields such as product, advertising, video, and print. She has illustrated for Hansol Education’s ‘Finden Soundrug’, Duta’s ‘♡to♡ FESTIVAL’, YTN’s ‘Hello Weather’, 601 BISANG and SK m&c’s ‘MARK’. She created My First Helsinki in the second half of 2012 as a series of illustrations about Helsinki, …
Jang Hun-gyo

A full-time researcher at the Research Center for Common Resources and Sustainable Society at Jeju National University. She dreams of running a small research institute under the name Democracy for All. She is the author of The Miryang War: A Radical Democracy Project Based on Common Resources and is currently working on her next book.
Lu Jingren

Prof. Lu Jingren is a book designer and illustrator. During the 1990s, he studied under Prof. Kohei Sugiura (杉浦康平) in Japan. In 1998 he established the Jingren Art Design Studio. He was senior art editor of the China Youth Publishing House. He is now a professor of the Academy of Arts and Design of Tsinghua University and a member of Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI). Prof. Lu has received many book design awards at home and overseas, including the World’s Most Beautiful Book award …

Tsuzuki Kyoichi

都築響一

Kim Eun-young

Yun Suh-young

Amorepacific

Park Jeong-hoon

Paul Rand

Jan Tschichold

Korean Society of Typography

Lee Soo-kyung

Yoo Yoon-seok

Kim So-eun

Jang Hun-gyo

Lu Jingren