NOTE: Our Graphic Design in Korea: A Personal Chronicle has been cancelled due to disruptions to the speaker's travel plans. chris hamamoto, Assistant Professor, Graphic Design program, will lead a walk-through of the exhibition Around Seoul* Independent Graphic Design at 6:30pm on Wednesday, February 5th, at the CCA Hubbell Street Galleries. We hope you can join us for this event instead, and sincerely apologize for any inconvenience the cancellation of the lecture may cause.

In this lecture, Choi Sung Min will talk about some of the work he has done with his partner, Choi Sulki, in the context of South Korean graphic design since 2000s. Or maybe it’s the other way around: he will tell a story of South Korean graphic design as reflected in, and partly shaped by, the work of Sulki and Min. In doing so, he will briefly introduce and discuss the historical background of modern Korean graphic design, and some of the events and ideas that have helped shape its current development.

Choi Sulki and Choi Sung Min are graphic designers working around Seoul, Korea. Since 2005, they have created graphic materials for many cultural institutions and individuals, including National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Asia Culture Center, Munhakdongne, Mass Studies, Workroom Press, and the artists Sasa[44] and MeeNa Park. They have participated in numerous exhibitions in Korea and abroad, and have worked with Korean artists and writers to publish books and documents through their own Specter Press. In 2014, they created a publication and exhibition Off-White Paper as part of the International Biennial of Graphic Design Brno. In the same year, they were shortlisted for the Hermès Foundation Missulsang. Their work is included in the permanent collections at the MMCA in Gwacheon, M+ in Hong Kong, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York, Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, and Victoria & Albert Museum in London. Both Sulki and Min have widely taught, and have delivered lectures and workshops at such institutions as Brno Biennial, Ningbo International Graphic Design Design Biennial, Osaka University of Arts, China Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Yale University, and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, as well as numerous schools in Korea. 

This lecture is presented in conjunction with Around Seoul* Independent Graphic Design, on view at the CCA Hubbell Street Galleries January 21–February 6, 2020.