Designers in Seoul
Designers in Tokyo
Designers in Taipei
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Motto
A simple, impressive, and honest design.
South Korea
Youl
Joe
Design
Book Design, Typography
Bio
Youl joe is a Seoul-based graphic designer. After studying at the Dankook university, visual communication design, Seoul, Korea, He completed his M.F.A in graphic design from Yale university, in 2009. Since establishing independent studio Hey Joe in 2010, he has worked with artists, publishers, curators, and cultural institutions. He currently teaches graphic design and typography class in Seoul, Korea.
Clients
Sorol Art Museum, Jeonju Film Festival, DMZ Documentary Film Festival, Seoul Museum of Art, SONGEUN, Platform-L
Awards
Kyoto Global Design Awards, Best 100
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Takada
The typsetting is unique. The ability to use hiragana, katakana, kanji, and alphanumeric characters in both vertical and horizontal writing is, we feel, unique in Japanese design culture.
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Piernikowski
Polish design consistently marks its presence on global markets, combining diferent perspectives that reflects the cultural context of Poland, while perfectly adapting to the expectations of customers from all over the world. Today polish design not only draws on its history and regional motifs, creatively reinterpreting patterns from the past, but also develops by embracing new values like: innovation, responsibility, resourcefulness, locality, and nostalgia.
Ksawery
Komputery
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Jakub
Kozniewski
We're getting there.