Book designer, illustrator, art director, and author, whose witty work is active in various fields. After dropping out of Musashino Art University’s Visual Communication Design Department, he worked for the advertising company Hakuhodo. In 1988, he opened Yorifuji Design Office, and in 2000, he founded Bunpei Ginza, a limited company. In 2008, he won the 29th Kodansha Publishing Culture Award in the Book Design category for Life Miscellany Notebook and Designers Who Don’t Design. He received the Tokyo ADC Award and the Japan Typography Yearbook Award for his posters and newspaper advertisements for the Japanese tobacco industry, which he created with copywriter KINYA Okamoto. His books include Death Catalog and Elemental Life and his books introduced in Japan include Earthquake, Measure of Numbers, Heaven of Change, and Doodle Master.
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Yorifuji Bunpei
寄藤⽂平
다른 사람들
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An architectural historian and architect, born in Seoul in 1961. He graduated from the Department of Architecture at Seoul National University, earned a master’s degree from the University of Michigan, and completed a Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania with research on French Enlightenment architecture. In 1994, he established the Department of Architecture at Ewha Womans University as its founding professor, where he continues to serve. His extensive and profound research transcends time …
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Florencia Colombo
Florencia Colombo, a Switzerland-based architect, designs cultural projects with a creative focus. She works across architecture, contemporary art, and design, developing interdisciplinary academic exhibitions and publications for various international institutions. -
Sakurada Jun
He graduated from the Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Economics, Gakushuin University, Japan. After working as a programmer, system engineer, and web designer, he has been running the website “Visual Thinking” since 2010, introducing infographics and creating pictograms, diagrams, and infographics. -
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대학에서 시각디자인을 공부하고 편집 디자이너로 커리어를 시작했다. 디자이너로서 인문학적 소양을 쌓고자 홍익대학교 대학원 미학과에 진학했다가, 디자인을 해석하고 표현하는 일에 소질이 있다는 사실을 깨달았다. 이후 다양한 매거진에 객원으로 참여하며 2013년 월간 『디자인』 기자로 정식 합류했고, 지금까지 디자인 전방위에 관련된 글을 쓰고 있다. 2021년부터 월간 『디자인』 편집장으로 활동 중이다. -
Soonbho Park
He graduated from the College of Fine Arts at Hongik University and earned a master’s degree from its graduate school. He obtained a Ph.D. in Fine Arts from Bergische Universität Wuppertal. He previously served as a professor at the College of Design at Hongik University and as the director of the Art and Engineering Research Center at the Korea-Germany Graduate School of Engineering. Currently, he is the senior vice president of the Korean Society of Basic Design & Art (KSBDA) and the … -
Piers Bizony
A science journalist, filmmaker, and book creator, he began his career as a portrait photographer in London and has contributed articles on science, aerospace, and cosmology to various magazines in the UK and the US. From 2012 to 2018, he worked closely with Stanley Kubrick’s family on book projects and international exhibitions commemorating Kubrick’s films 2001: A Space Odyssey and Dr. Strangelove . He collaborated with NASA on a major retrospective celebrating its most iconic missions for … -
Lee Soon-jong
Lee Soon-jong graduated from Seoul National University College of Fine Arts and the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) Graduate School of Design. He has served as a professor at Kookmin University’s Department of Industrial Design and Seoul National University’s Department of Design. He also founded the International Association of Societies for Design Research (IASDR), served as president of the Korean Design Association, and was the first design director of the Gwangju Design … -
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. -
Lee Eun-ho
Lee Eun-ho is a graphic designer at Toss. He plans and creates all visual areas of TOSS. He focuses on the visual consistency of TOSS graphics by establishing and spreading the visual identity based on the emoji font ‘TOSSPACE’. -
Kim Won-young
She worked as a lawyer at the National Human Rights Commission of Korea and Law Firm Deoksu. Since 2013, she has been involved in performing arts research and creation, and since 2019, she has been directly participating in performances as a choreographer, playwright, and dancer. She has published books and papers dealing with disability and the relationship between human rights, art, and technology. She wrote books including Defense for the Disqualified (2018) and Becoming a Cyborg (2021), and … -
Son Boo-kyung
Graduated from the Department of Art Theory at Hongik University and earned a master’s degree from the same university with research on spatial experiences in Minimalism and New Media Art. Co-translated works such as 40 Essential Readings in Art Theory and Criticism, 21 Terms for Media Criticism, and Postproduction. Published papers including “Jeffrey Shaw’s New Media Installations: Tension between Physical Space and Virtual Space”, “Medial Turns in Korean Avant-Garde”, and “Binghamton Letter: … -
Kim Tae-hwa
After majoring in video animation, he worked as a designer at SBS Digital News Lab’s Operational Content Team, overseeing the design of various brands and contents such as ‘SUBUSU NEWS’ and ‘MMTG’. Since 2021, he has also been designing eco-friendly commerce brand 175Planet.