Reimagining Hangeul Across Cultures

A comprehensive catalogue titled A-Project 2024–2025 has been released, documenting the outcomes of an international typography initiative led by AG Typography Institute (AGTI). Spanning 148 pages, the publication brings together newly developed Hangeul typefaces alongside process material and interviews, offering insight into how the writing system can be reinterpreted across cultural contexts.

The release is accompanied by an exhibition at Doosung Paper Gallery in Seoul (January 27–February 6, 2026), presenting works by 26 participating designers and extending the project into a spatial format.

Initiated to mark the 40th anniversary of the AG Ahnsangsoo Typeface, the A-Project invites designers from diverse backgrounds to develop experimental Hangeul typefaces based on its structural logic. At its core lies the AG Ahnsangsoo module—a compositional system that breaks with the conventional square syllable block and opens up new formal possibilities.

Rather than treating Hangeul as a fixed system, the project positions it as a flexible framework—capable of expansion, translation, and visual reinterpretation. Designers develop complete typefaces using this approach, with AGTI supporting the process to ensure the full set of 11,172 syllables.

Following its first edition in 2024 with 14 designers, the project gained international visibility. The 2025 edition expands this trajectory, further exploring non-traditional constructions of Hangeul letterforms.

Contributors include Kenya Hara, Neville Brody, Paula Scher, M/M (Paris), and DINAMO, whose works situate Hangeul at the intersection of typography and graphic design. Across both editions, the project demonstrates how a writing system can operate not only as a linguistic tool, but also as a generative visual system.

A first set of 11 typefaces was released in 2025, with additional designs to follow. A-Project 2026 is currently in preparation.

A-Project 2024–2025


Authors: AG Typography Institute

Publisher: Ahn Graphics

Editing: An Mano, Kim Jukyeong, Jung Soe

Design: Mabasa (An Mano, Cha Minkyung)

Production: CREIN

Release: 3 April 2026

Volume: 148 pages

Format: 21 × 29.7 cm
Language: Korean & English

ISBN: 979-11-6823-125-2

Price: 45,000 KRW

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