Professor
AHN, BYUNG HAK
Assistant Professor, Typography
ahn.hisd@gmail.com
Ahn Byunghak teaches typography and graphic design at Hongik University. is a designer and a professor at Hongik University, He has made full use of the typographic and graphic approaches in a wide variety of sectors, running 4242works since 2002. His body of work was introduced by IDEA Magazine and Atlas of Graphic Design. Ahn played the role of director of Typojanchi 2017 with increasingly spreading his interest on sense and intuition, organizing the theme, Body and Typography, in a format of workshops and exhibitions. He explores relevant issues that are reshaping the role of design and its relationship to social, cultural, and political issues.
MAJOR
Typography, Graphic Design, Korea Design History, Design Aesthetics
BIOGRAPHY
Ph.D. in Visual Communication, Hongik University, Seoul
MA in Visual Communication, Royal College of Art, London
MFA in Visual Communication, Hongik University, Seoul
BFA in Visual Communication, Hongik University, Seoul
Head of College of Design at Hongik University
Head of Visual Communication Major at Hongik University Korea
Member of Organizing Committee of Typojanchi
Head of 2017 Select Committee Hangeul Type Design (Visual Information Design Association in Korea)
Member of Jindalae, Experimental Group for Visual Culture
2017
Director of Typojanchi: The 5th International Typography Biennale
2015
Curator of Special Exhibition for Typojanchi: The 4th International Typography Biennale
2012
Red Tape: A Series of Talk Curator, London
2002-13
CEO and Creative Director at 4242works
2006
Hangeul DADA: International Design Exhibition Curator
1996-98
Designer at Ahn Graphics
AWARDS
2014
The 1st Prize: Korea Society of Typography
2012
Selected by SUSTAIN RCA
2006
The 1st Prize of Curatorial Proposal: DONG-A Art Festival, Ilmin Museum of Art
PUBLICATIONS
2016
A Basic Research for Readable Cities: Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism
2015
A Basic Research for Hanguel Seoul: Seoul Design Foundation
2015
An experimentation of typographic potential based on nonlinear semantic structure: Journal of Basic Design & Art, Vol.16, No.6
2012
A Basic Research for Design Archive: Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism
2006
Visible Poetry: Keumkang Mountain, Visible and Invisible, Seoul: Sijirak
2006
Design Education, Slow Food, Seoul: 4242works
2003
NANA Project 1, Seoul: Ahn Graphics
WORKS
2018
Super Surfaces, Doosung In the Paper Gallery, Seoul
2014
Graphics RCA: Fifty Years, Gulbenkian Gallery, London
2014
A List of Fragments or Spectacles, Gallery Square, Seoul
2013
Juxtaposition, Galley31, Ulsan
2012
Re-solutions, Korean Cultural Centre, London
2011
Falling Short, Her House Gallery, London
2000
Active Wire, Art Sonje Center, Seoul