Designers in Seoul
Designers in Tokyo
Designers in Taipei
Column Four
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Motto
I work with people who respect and acknowledge each other's value, and in the future, everything will turn out as we envision it.
South Korea
HyoJun
Shim
Design
Motion & 3D
Bio
HyoJun Shim is a co-founder of the graphic design studio DAEKI & JUN. As a co-founder, he has been recognized for his work and has won over 50 awards at international design competitions and biennales. Notably, he won the Grand Prix at the 2017 Red Dot Design Award, the Judge’s Choice Award at the 2017 Society of Typographic Arts (STA100) in Chicago, and the Platinum & Gold Awards at the Graphis Annual in 2016 and 2017.
He holds a bachelor's degree in Graphic Design from the University of the Arts London (UAL), a master's degree in Material and Visual Culture from University College London (UCL). He is also currently a lecturer at Dongduk Women University.
He has participated in over 30 exhibitions at a variety of institutions, including the German Red Dot Design Museum, Die Neue Sammlung (Munich, Germany), Le Signe National Center for Graphic Design (Chaumont, France), 019 (Ghent, Belgium), Sejong Museum of Art, the National Hangeul Museum, and Culture Station Seoul 284. His work is included in the collections of Die Neue Sammlung, the German Red Dot Design Museum, 019, and the National Hangeul Museum.
Clients
Dongdaemun Design Plaza(DDP), Seoul Design Foundation, Seoul Metropolitan Government, Gangwon State Office, Gangwon Institute of Design Promotion
Awards
Red Dot Design Award, STA(Society of Typographic Arts) 100, Graphis Annual, Tokyo TDC Annual Award, New York TDC(Type Directors Club), Good Design Award, Moscow Global Biennale of Graphic Design Golden Bee, Brno International Biennial of Graphic Design, and etc
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Yoshiko
Hada
Though this is about illustration, I think there is a tendency to prefer narrative and explanatory elements over visual (graphical ) interest. (But maybe things have changed a bit recently?)
Ian
Lynam
There are three different reading directions for typeset Japanese!
HyoJun
Shim
It's not unique to Korea; a one-sided relationship has no future, so please work with people who respect and acknowledge each other's value.
Zofia
Dzierzawska-Bojanowska
Polish design history has been very tumuluous and directly related to the country's history and political systems.