SYSTEM 2022

The ‘SYSTEM 2022’ poster was designed to promote designer Daeki Shim’s solo exhibition showcasing his graphic experiments. The prestigious ‘Gangwon Institute of Design Promotion (GIDP)’ & ‘DAEKI and JUN’ proudly co-organized the exhibition, hosted by Gangwon State.

Hank Willis Thomas Lecture Poster

Created as a poster for a lecture by Hank Willis Thomas at Yale University. The design draws from the artist’s exploration of identity, symbolism, and everyday objects, translating these themes into bold visual compositions. Through vivid color contrasts and the transformation of familiar forms into sculptural imagery, the poster reflects the artist’s practice of recontextualizing common objects to provoke new readings and social awareness.

Linda Van Deursen and Karel Martens Workshop Poster

Linda van Deursen and Karel Martens. Using an experimental panoramic photographic method, the poster collages the workshop space with key information into one composition. By merging environment and content, it captures the site’s atmosphere and sense of presence, proposing a new visual language between documentation and graphic design.

The 2nd Hakka Impression: International Poster Invitation Exhibition Shenzhen 2019

It designed for an exhibition entitled ‘The 2nd Hakka Impression International Poster Invitation Exhibition’ in Shenzhen, China in 2019.

The poster visualizes Hakka, a minority art group in China, not only preserving their own culture but also coexisting in beautiful harmony with Chinese culture.

The poster was exhibited at the Red Cube Public Art and Planning Museum in China.

AI-Proof Thinking

One may have encountered the question: “What kind of mindset must a designer have to avoid remaining merely an operator?” Today, this question feels sharper than ever. How will the role of designers shift alongside AI? The moment AI-generated data is accepted as the answer, the designer becomes an operator. Rather than absorbing it uncritically, a resistant, even contrarian attitude may be needed.

New Year’s Resolution: Invitation to the Mystical Well

This poster was created for an artist event organized by Frisketch, featuring Chungha Lim. It is based on The Mystical Well That Shows the Future from Lim’s ‘Coonga Studio’ universe. Once believed to reveal the future, the well ran dry after people recklessly sought its water. The design centers on the secret gathering of the ‘Wolgyeondan’(Moon-Gazing Society), who met under each full moon to pray for the well’s return, transforming the event poster into a portal to the artist’s fictional world.

Disassembly & Reassembly

This work was exhibited in the 18th exhibition, “The Typesetter’s Bridge,” organized by the Korea Typography Society.

The bridge depicted in “The Typesetter’s Bridge” by Yuni Haam is carefully deconstructed and reassembled. The resulting form, reminiscent of Cubist painting, brings together multiple perspectives into a single, composite structure. The bridge departs from traditional engineering, becoming a site where two designers’ ideas intersect.

Shhh! It’s Time-out

Seol Ji-hyeon’s “Jakjeon-Time(Time-out)” swept the 1999 MBC University Song Festival with its bold, playful energy. Although born in the same year and discovering it 25 years later, the designer found falling for it inevitable—as if drawn into her move.

Drawing on the visual language of vintage Korean magazine and newspaper advertisements, it reveals the song through a socially recognizable body gesture.



This work was exhibited at the 3rd BigRiver Poster Festival in 2024.

Vanishing san / Moving San (series)

A poster created for International Mountain Day.

Beginning with a conventional celebration of mountains, it shifts to depict their suffering under environmental destruction, emphasizing conservation and sustainability. The moving mountain is linguistically categorized (dynamic, animate, passive), deconstructed through shifting perspectives, and reassembled into distinct states, then connected through their peaks to suggest movement.

Living san / Moving San (series)

A poster created for International Mountain Day.

Beginning with a conventional celebration of mountains, it shifts to depict their suffering under environmental destruction, emphasizing conservation and sustainability. The moving mountain is linguistically categorized (dynamic, animate, passive), deconstructed through shifting perspectives, and reassembled into distinct states, then connected through their peaks to suggest movement.

Rising san / Moving San (series)

A poster created for International Mountain Day.

Beginning with a conventional celebration of mountains, it shifts to depict their suffering under environmental destruction, emphasizing conservation and sustainability. The moving mountain is linguistically categorized (dynamic, animate, passive), deconstructed through shifting perspectives, and reassembled into distinct states, then connected through their peaks to suggest movement.

Ashes

*Awarded Best Book Design in Korea 2024*
Ashes tells story of ashy volcanic area. I felt like being in the strange planet walking the weird volcanic field. There, I collected things from the ashes. In this ashy planet, what did I tried to find so desperately? I put them in this book, made of ashy paper, shining like ashes.

유리눈동자 Glass Eye

*Awarded Best Book Design in Korea 2026* Glass Eye is a photo book that captures the fragile, easily broken presence of nameless beings—through the unblinking gaze of a glass eye. Metallic gold ink glimmers throughout the pages, echoing the afterimage of hollow eyes—eyes like glass—that quietly seep through the book.

MUGG: Just Draw Anything!

Mugg: Just Draw Anything! is the first exhibition of the drawing collective Mugg and presents their initial approach to drawing. Since the earliest human drawings, other media inevitably followed, yet among all images, drawing remains the most vital. The motto “Just Draw Anything” emphasizes a steady and persistent practice of this fundamental act.

읽기 reading 讀

Reading has long maintained a relatively one-directional structure. Authors compose texts within a fixed framework of reading, and readers follow them in a consistent, habitual way. 〈읽기 reading 讀〉 is a book that experiments with breaking away from this rigid structure by visualizing the content of text as the “form of reading” itself. Through short passages that remain comfortably readable, it seeks to reawaken an awareness of the act of reading itself.