Christopher Wolfgang John Alexander (1936–2022) was an Austrian-born British-American architect and design theorist. He was an emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley. His theories about the nature of human-centered design have affected fields beyond architecture, including urban design, software, and sociology. Alexander designed and personally built over 100 buildings, both as an architect and a general contractor. Alexander is best known for his 1977 book A Pattern …

‘Life designer, lifestyle adventurer, director of the No Money Economic Center, chieftain of the early days of the shortage of balance, thought collector, rag master, place lessor for the multi-base living lifestyle, daytime planner.’ He creates such strange jobs for himself. He majored in industrial design, but converted to life design after realizing that industry is threatening everyone’s life. How can we save life? What kills life? Where can we start to change life? With these topics in …

CEO of studio-L, Social entrepreneur, Community Designer, Professor and Director of the department of Spatial Design in the Kyoto University of Art and Design, Vice President in RIPS, NPO. Born in Aichi, in 1973. After the university, he worked in SEN, inc., where he developed his skills and knowledge in landscape design advised by Mr. Shosuke Miyake, a founder of this firm. As well, he learnt social organization and relationship management from Dr. Fusayo Asano there. Then he founded studio-L …

An architectural critic, journalist, and architectural culture planner. Former editor-in-chief of the architecture and design magazine 《SPACE》, and currently a contributing editor for the architectural critique journal 《(WIDE AR)》. Focuses on the social and public aspects of architecture, as well as its relationship with civil society and urban communities.

She studied literature at Ewha Womans University and Seoul National University and pursued visual design at the Graduate School of Hongik University. After graduation, she worked as the publishing team leader at the design studio AGI Society. Starting with her master’s thesis, Photography as Text and Society as Image: Handling of Photography in Twen」 (2006), she has focused her research on the intersections of photography, text, and design. Currently, she runs the photography book publishing …

She studied graphic design at Seoul National University and Rhode Island School of Design, USA. She started working at the advertising agency Oricom and worked on many identity design projects as a freelancer. She is currently a professor of communication design at Samsung Advanced Design Institute (SADI). She is the author of The New Typographic Revolutionary: Jan Tschichold , 33 Typeface Stories that Make Good Design , and Ode to Typography , as well as independently published artist books, …

Designer. He graduated from Hongik University in 2006 and worked as a UX designer at Angraphics. He then earned an MFA from the Royal College of Art (RCA) in London, UK, and worked as a UX Design Director at Philips Healthcare in Singapore and the Netherlands before returning to Korea to join the Department of Design at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST). He is an associate professor at UNIST, where he teaches students, founded OND Lab, conducts numerous design research …

Majored in visual design at Hongik University and lectured at several universities before coming across the National Museum of Korea, where work has continued for over twenty years. While working in the fields of ‘museums,’ ‘design,’ and ‘culture,’ doubts arose about the fact that design was being absorbed only in external decoration. Reevaluating design led to confronting the question of ‘why and for whom to design,’ rather than ‘how to design.’ This process led to the realization that design …

He was born in Gimcheon, Gyeongbuk, and graduated from Sungkyunkwan University. In 1993, he published a poem in the summer issue of Writer’s World , and in 1994, he won the 3rd Writer’s World Literature Award for his novel Walking While Pointing at the Mask . He won the Dongseo Literature Award in 2001 for his novel Goodbye, Yi Sang , the Dongin Literature Award in 2003 for his novel When I Was Still A Child , the Daesan Literature Award in 2005 for his novel I am a Ghost Writer , …

Armin Hofmann was a Swiss graphic designer. He was one of the most prominent individuals in Swiss design. He began his career in 1947 as a teacher at the Allgemeine Gewerbeschule Basel School of Art and Crafts at the age of twenty-six. Hofmann followed Emil Ruder as head of the graphic design department at the Schule für Gestaltung Basel (Basel School of Design) and was instrumental in developing the graphic design style known as the Swiss Style. His teaching methods were unorthodox and broad …

Entered the world of translation after becoming captivated by the charm of Japanese translation, which involved meticulously studying original texts, while working an ordinary office job. After completing her studies at Geulbab Academy, she is currently working as a translator affiliated with Bareun Translation. Her translated works include The #1 Seller Doesn’t Sell Like You Do , The Neural Cleansing Revolution , The History of Business Model Innovation 1, 2 , The Diet That Melts Away …

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.