He is the Creative Director of Fontworks Inc., a font design company he co-founded in 2005. With over 25 years of experience, he is recognized as one of South Korea’s leading type designers. He has developed corporate fonts for Samsung, Kakao, Naver, Hyundai Card, Nexon, the Korea Publishers Association, MBC, KBS, YTN News, Dong-A Ilbo, Lotte Mart, Daishin Securities, and LINE Japan, among others. His work includes commercial typefaces such as Yoon Gothic and Yoon Myungjo, Rix Gothic and Myungjo, the Rix Road Name series, the Rix Rock series and Rix Rock Variable, as well as various Rak fonts, including Rak Gothic and Myungjo Variable. To date, he has directed and developed approximately 1,000 typefaces. He has received numerous prestigious design awards, including the iF Design Award for Typeface Design, Red Dot Design Award, Good Design Award, Asia Design Prize Winner, German Universal Design Award, and the K-Design Award Grand Prix.
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Yongrak Park
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A designer and design educator based in Seoul. He graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design and worked in web design and editorial design in New York and Boston. Currently, he is an assistant professor at Hongik University, where she continues his personal projects in editorial work, writing, and web design.
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서울대학교에서 미학을 전공한 후 베를린 훔볼트대학교 문화학과에서 철학 박사 학위를 취득했다. 현재 이화여자대학교 조형예술대학 교수로 재임 중이며, 동시대의 철학적, 미학적 논의와 예술적 실천에 관심을 두고 비평과 연구를 진행하고 있다. 지은 책으로 『마르쿠스 가브리엘』 『크래시』(공저) 『절멸』(공저) 등이 있고, 옮긴 책으로 마르쿠스 가브리엘의 『예술의 힘』, 발터 벤야민의 『모스크바 일기』, 프리드리히 키틀러의 『축음기, 영화, 타자기』(공역), 아비 바르부르크의 『뱀 의식』, 지그프리트 크라카우어의 『과거의 문턱』, 다니엘 파울 슈레버의 『한 신경병자의 회상록』, 빅토르 타우스크의 『영향 장치·자위에 대하여』 등이 있다. -
Park Su-ji
An independent curator, operating the curatorial agency RARY and co-managing the curator platform WESS . Previously, they have worked as a curator at the independent cultural space Agit in Busan, editorial team leader for the art and culture criticism magazine BIART , coordinator for Jeju Biennale 2017: Tourism , curator at Tongui-dong Boan Inn , and associate curator for the 2024 Busan Biennale: Seeing in the Dark . Their work revolves around questioning how the fundamental nature of art … -
Gang Yeong-ok
She studied at Duksung Women’s University, Department of German and Literature, and Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Graduate School of Interpretation and Translation. She has worked as a translator at various organizations and taught math to students. Currently, she works as a publication planner and professional translator at the translation agency Enterkorea. Her books include Great Myths of Aging , Nett ist die kleine Schwester von Scheiße , and Schrödinger’s Cat: Fifty Experiments … -
Kang E-Roon
He runs the design studio Math Practice in New York City and recently co-founded 908A, which researches and develops design tools for culture and the arts. He studied graphic design at Yale University and was a Special Research Fellow at MIT’s Sensible Cities Lab in the Department of Urban Planning. He has taught at the Bauhaus Weimar University in Germany, New York University ITP, and is currently an Assistant Professor at Parsons School of Design. -
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Park Chang-hyun
Based in Seoul, this architect designs architecture, spaces, and furniture. In 2013, they founded AROUND Architects, focusing on the social perspective of architecture. Their work spatially proposes connections between people in shared spaces and between buildings to foster neighborhood connectivity. Recent completed projects include the Third Place series of multi-family housing and the Jeongbalsan House. From 2002 to 2018, they taught architecture at Kyonggi University and Korea University. … -
Doi Akifumi
Born in Hiroshima in 1957. Owner of Tom’s Box. Handles picture books and books related to picture books. He has been involved in the planning and editing of over 300 picture books to date, including the Forest of Images series (Holp Shuppan) and Neko no Sweater (Oikawa Kenji, Takeuchi Mayuko). He also organizes the workshop Atosaki Juku with Akira Ono, which aims to nurture picture book authors. -
Shur Ki-heun
Graphic designer and professor in the Department of Visual Design at Gachon University. He has served as the president of the Korea Society of Visual Information Design and the Korea Society of Basic Design & Art. He received the Art Division Award at the 2008 Korean Culture and Arts Awards and the Education Division Award at the 2012 Korea New Knowledge Management Awards. -
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연세대학교 커뮤니케이션대학원 HCI디자인 전공 교수이자 디자인 & 인텔리전스 연구실 디렉터. LG전자 MC사업부 UX 디자이너와 뉴욕 와이어리스 제너레이션 프로덕트 디자이너로 일했고, 인간과 알고리즘의 협업을 연구한 Lab64를 설립·운영했다. 롱아일랜드대학교에서 컴퓨터 과학을 공부했고, 카네기멜론대학교에서 HCI 석사 학위를, 서울대학교에서 언론정보학 박사 학위를 취득했다. 기술이 인간의 고유한 창의성을 무한히 확장시키는 즐거운 도구가 될 것으로 믿고, 디자이너가 여러 AI 에이전트와 호흡을 맞추며 단순한 작업자를 넘어 ‘창의적 지휘자’로 거듭나는 방법을 연구한다. “AI가 나를 대체할까?”라는 막연한 두려움이 “AI와 함께 무엇을 더 할 수 있을까?”라는 설렘으로 변하기를 바란다. -
Lee Bong-won
He studied visual design at Hongik University and Dong-A Graduate School, and received his master’s degree in Design Strategy and Innovation from Brunel University, UK. He worked at the UI Lab of Samsung Electronics Design Management Center and is currently in charge of developing future scenarios based on the convergence of industries and technologies and designing service systems to realize them. -
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.