Authors

Song Seong-jae

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Graduated from the Department of Applied Arts at the College of Fine Arts, Seoul National University, and earned a Master’s degree in Book Arts from Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London. Worked as a designer at LG Ad and as an art director at the publishing department of The Dong-A Ilbo. Currently serves as a professor in the Department of Visual Design at Hoseo University’s College of Arts. An invited designer at the Korea Industrial Design Exhibition, formerly served as Vice Chair of the Typography and Editorial Design Division at the Korea Society of Visual Information Design. Authored books include Korean Typography and Design Avant-Garde: Herb Lubalin. Translated works include Icons of Culture: Graphic Design, BOOK DESIGN, and Language & Typography.

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Kim So-eun

Graduated from Hongik University, Department of Industrial Design. She is active as a freelance illustrator in various fields such as product, advertising, video, and print. She has illustrated for Hansol Education’s ‘Finden Soundrug’, Duta’s ‘♡to♡ FESTIVAL’, YTN’s ‘Hello Weather’, 601 BISANG and SK m&c’s ‘MARK’. She created My First Helsinki in the second half of 2012 as a series of illustrations about Helsinki, …
Park Jung-jun

After graduating from the Department of Western Painting at Seoul National University, he opened an art studio called LHOOQ, where he worked sporadically. By chance, he began writing and co-authored a high school art textbook for the 2012 academic year. He is currently exploring new projects while working on art technique theory books.
Roel Klaassen

Roel Klaassen is Programme Manager at Premsela, Dutch Platform for Design and Fashion. Roel is a design enthusiast with an academic background in design, psychology and strategic management. At present he’s working on the People’s Republic of Design programme, a Premsela initiative that aims to stimulate the development of an open design culture.
Josh A. Halstead

Josh Halstead is an epistemic activist working at the intersection of critical disability studies, design pedagogy, and community organizing. A recognized contributor to disability design discourse, they seek to unsettle and rupture normative systems of thought by centering marginalized perspectives. Halstead has been an invited lecturer in academic and industry settings—from Stanford to Google—and is co-author of the forthcoming book Extra Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-Racist, Non-Binary …
Ahn Graphics

Ahngraphics is a Korean design publishing company and company founded by visual designer Ahn Sang-soo on February 8, 1985. It was converted to a stock company in 1990 and has grown into a comprehensive design company covering four sectors: design, digital, media, and publishing. It was the first design company to introduce DTP into practice, and contributed to the development of Korean graphic design through high-quality editorial design centered on letters. It celebrated its 30th anniversary …
Kimura Shunsuke

Interviewer and author. He began his career as an interviewer when he attended a seminar by Japanese intellectual Tachibana Takashi while a student at the University of Tokyo. After working in the office of copywriter Shigesato Itoi, he went out on his own. He has been a professional interviewer for 20 years and has interviewed and organized the stories of more than 1,000 people.
Lee Kyun-gmin

He studied Visual Communication Design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He was selected as a Next Generation Design Leader by the Ministry of Knowledge Economy (now Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy) and Korea Design Promotion Agency, and has been honored with the International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA), iF International Forum Design, UX Design Award, and Red Dot Design Award. He currently works as a UX designer at LG Electronics. At first, I became a UX designer by …
Fernando Pessoa

Born in 1888 in Lisbon, Portugal, and raised in Durban, South Africa. At the age of 17, he returned to Lisbon, where he worked as a translator for a trading company. He passed away in 1935, but after his death, a “trunk” found in his room contained an extensive collection of prose and poetry manuscripts, which were later published to great acclaim. Widely known for his exploration of multiple selves through writing under numerous heteronyms, his work has had a profound impact on …
김남시

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.
Kim Jin-woo

Professor at Konkuk University College of Design in Chungju, South Korea. Since 2004, he has been meeting with students in the ‘Interior Design Studio’ and ‘Furniture Design’ courses. He received his PhD from Hongik University College of Fine Arts and has published numerous papers and works related to furniture design. While thinking about how to connect the expertise he has accumulated with the life of this era, he challenged himself to write a book that is read by the …
Yoo Jung-sook

She graduated from Seoul Women’s University with a BFA in Visual Design and received her MFA in Typography from the same graduate school. After studying at Gesamthochschule Kassel, Germany, she earned her Ph.D. in communication design at Bergische Universität Wuppertal and served as a research professor in the Department of Visual Design at Seoul Women’s University. Currently, she lectures at various universities and serves as a mid-career research officer of the National Research …
Kim So-jeong

She studied visual design in South Korea and worked in design education and magazine design. After studying illustration in the UK, she now lives in the seaside town of Bournemouth, where she works as a designer and illustrator.

Song Seong-jae

송성재

Kim So-eun

Park Jung-jun

Roel Klaassen

Josh A. Halstead

Ahn Graphics

Kimura Shunsuke

Lee Kyun-gmin

Fernando Pessoa

김남시

Kim Jin-woo

Yoo Jung-sook

Kim So-jeong