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 …

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 …

Ellen Lupton is a designer, writer, and educator. Her books include Design Is Storytelling, Graphic Design Thinking, Health Design Thinking, and Extra Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-Racist, Nonbinary Field Guide for Graphic Designers . The third edition of her bestselling book Thinking with Type launches in March, 2024. She teaches in the Graphic Design MFA program at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore (MICA), where she proudly serves as the Betty Cooke and William O. Steinmetz …

Lee-Yil is an art critic who made a significant contribution to recognizing and establishing the concept of art criticism and review in the Korean art world from the 1960s to the 1990s. Born in 1932 in Gangseo, South Pyongan Province, Lee was a student at Seoul National University, where he was active as a literary youth, organizing the ‘Literature and Literature Society’ and appearing as a poet. After dropping out of college, he studied abroad in France in 1956, where he completed …

She graduated from Seoul National University’s College of Arts and Humanities with a B.A. in English Literature and received her M.A. in Fine Arts from the same graduate school. She earned an MA in art history from the University of Chicago and a PhD in art history from the University of Iowa. She is currently a professor in the Department of Art at Kookmin University College of Art. She is the author of Korean Abstract Painting: A Formation of Korean Avant-Garde (2013), The Vestige of …

Born in 1968. Architect.Co-chair of Design Nouveau, Tokyo Picnic Club. Researcher at the International Center for Urban Regeneration Research, University of Tokyo, and lecturer at the Institute of Production Technology, University of Tokyo, where he studies urban regeneration cases around the world. Since 2011, he has been a lecturer at the Children’s Architecture School.

He studied architecture at Hongik University and interior design at Cornell Graduate School, U.S.A. He is the dean of the Graduate School of Industrial Art at Hongik University and a professor at the College of Art and Architecture since 1996. He was the general director of the IFI World Interior Design Competition in 2007, a board member of the IFI World Federation of Interior Architecture from 2007–2011, president of the Korean Society of Interior Designers (KOSID) in 2011–2012, and president …

Lee Kyu-chul (1948-1994, Incheon) graduated from Hongik University in 1974, majoring in sculpture. In 1975, he left for Saudi Arabia, where he worked as an administrator and videographer for the Vinnell Company in the United States. In 1983, he entered graduate school at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, but returned home after three semesters. He had his first solo exhibition, Space and Visual Perception (Kwanhoon Museum of Art, 1988), which he spent time researching alone, and …

Ahn Sung-jin graduated from the Department of Theater and Film at Chung-Ang University in 1993. He has been photographing musicians’ record jackets since 1992 and has photographed more than 500 albums. He has photographed corporate advertisements for Samsung, LG, Motorola, Hyundai, Kia, and SKT, as well as launch ads for sports brands such as Puma, Adidas, and LeCap, beauty brands such as Laneige and The Face Shop, and most of Korea’s casual fashion brands. To this day, he is still …

Graphic designer at Toss. Plans and creates all visual aspects of Toss. She focuses on the visual consistency of Toss graphics by establishing and spreading a visual identity based on the emoji font “Toss Face”.

BUS Architects is an architectural design firm led by three partners: Park Ji-hyun, Woo Seung-jin, and Cho Sung-hak . The firm focuses on establishing diverse relationships between cities, culture, and people , drawing from meaningful imagination that can emerge through architecture and space. Rather than emphasizing the “construction” of architecture, BUS Architects prioritizes the “process” behind it. In this context, “BUS” represents both a commitment to …

Lauren Daugherty, LMHC, ATR-P, is the Arts-based Wellness Experiences Manger and full-time art therapist at the Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University Bloomington. In this inaugural position at the museum, she established art therapy programming for individuals of all ages and abilities, including children from backgrounds of abuse and neglect, individuals with cognitive and developmental disabilities, and Indiana University students. She obtained her master’s degree in …