Authors

Kwon Jin

권진

Kwon Jin is a contemporary art researcher and curator and currently works as the project director of the Seoul Mediacity Biennale at the Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA). He has been at the SeMA since 2016 after working at ARKO Art Center and the 4th Anyang Public Art Project (APAP), where he curated Ahn Sang-soo’s solo exhibition Nalgae.pati (2017), Latin American Contemporary Art Exhibition Work for the Future Past (2017–2018), Middle Eastern Contemporary Art Exhibition gohyang: home (2019–2020), and Lee Bul’s solo exhibition LEE BUL—Beginning (2021) and compiled the accompanying book. His major works include “The Allegory of ‘Beginning’” (LEE BUL—Beginning, Seoul Museum of Art; BB&M; MediaBus; BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE, 2021) and “Garden and mountain going too, as we slowly walk” (Kang Seung Lee, Gallery Hyundai, 2024).

Kwon Jin의 책

다른 사람들

Kang Ju-hyun

He runs the graphic design studio Occupy the City and is based in Seoul. He curated and organized the exhibition Occupy the City: Typozimmer Nr. 7 and participated in other exhibitions such as Korean Design: Transforming Forms and Tools of Communication . He is currently an adjunct professor at Konkuk University and teaches graphic design and typography at various universities.
Lauren Daugherty

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 …
Michel Pastoureau

He is a leading scholar of medieval heraldry and recognized as the first international expert in the field of color. Born in Paris in 1947, he studied at the Sorbonne and the École Nationale des Chartes. He began researching the history of color as an academic subject in 1968 and published his first paper on medieval color in 1977. In 1982, he was appointed Director of Studies in the History and Philology Section at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), where he taught for 28 years on …
Go Yun-seo

She explores how text, graphics, and people interact between the virtual and the real. After working as a designer and developer at graphic design studio Everyday Practice, She recently went independent to run his own creative design studio, YYY. Continues to experiment with digital interaction in the graphic web experimentation group HHHA.
Han Baek-jin

Graduated from the Graduate School of Industrial Arts at Hongik University and has been actively involved as a member of the Korean Society of Brand Design, the Korean Society of Basic Visual Design, and VIDAK, as well as an invited designer at the Korea Industrial Design Exhibition. In 2005, served as a visiting professor at the University of Washington (UW) and is currently a professor in the Department of Visual Design at Dankook University’s College of Arts. Authored Brand Package …
Kim Se-jin

She studied at Hongik University’s Department of German Language and Literature and Korea University’s Graduate School of Education. Her books include What are You Looking At? , Lives of the Artists , MoMA Highlights , The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem , A Space of My Own , and the MoMA Artists series, including Henri Matisse , Paul Cézanne , Pablo Picasso , and Joan Miró .
Shinbou Minami

Born in Tokyo in 1947, he is an illustrator, editor, cartoonist, and essayist. He completed the “Art Practice” course taught by Genpei Akasegawa at the “School of the Arts” (Mihakyo). For seven years, he served as an editor for the magazine Garo (ガロ) , while concurrently working on illustrations and essays. His published works include An Art Museum for the Uninitiated , Poster Paleoanthropology , Funny Science , Funny Photos , My Own People , and the co-authored An Introduction to Street …
Jang Yeong-jin

Graduated with a primary major in English Education from Korea University. After completing military service and returning to school, he explored new fields and entered the world of design. Discovering an unexpected aptitude for it, he pursued Industrial Information Design as a second major and went on to earn a master’s degree from the same university. Currently, he runs the design company YOUNGLAB, participating in design projects for startups, SMEs, and large corporations domestically and …
Ahn Sang-soo

Ahn Sang-soo is a graphic designer and typographer with a keen interest in Korean visual culture. He studied in the Visual Communication Design Department at Hongik University, where he also completed his graduate studies. A former professor at his alma mater, he took early retirement in 2012 to establish the Paju Typography Institute, where he currently serves as the president, also known as ‘Nalgae.’ In 2007, he received the Gutenberg Prize from the city of Leipzig, Germany. He is also a …
Hans Rudolf Bosshard

Born in 1929, he completed an apprenticeship in typesetting and later worked as an instructor. He taught photography and graphic design at various colleges and at the Zurich School of Design, while also serving as a teacher at the Zurich School of Industrial Design, where he developed lifelong learning programs in typographic design. His work spans book design for the cultural sector, exhibition catalogs, posters, and exhibition and installation design. A prolific writer, he has authored …
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 …
Arumjigi

The Arumjigi Foundation is a non-profit organization established in November 2001, dedicated to creatively preserving and passing down Korea’s traditional culture. Its mission is to rediscover the identity of Korean culture and cultivate new cultural heritage for future generations. Through efforts to care for Korea’s traditional cultural heritage and its surrounding environments, Arumjigi seeks to ensure that the values of tradition remain alive in modern life across clothing, …

Kwon Jin

권진

Kang Ju-hyun

Lauren Daugherty

Michel Pastoureau

Go Yun-seo

Han Baek-jin

Kim Se-jin

Shinbou Minami

Jang Yeong-jin

Ahn Sang-soo

Hans Rudolf Bosshard

Kim Eun-young

Arumjigi