Kay Jun
South Korea
www.aprilsnow.kr
About me
Kay Jun is Daegu-based design writer and publisher. She graduated from Graduate School of Hongik University with her master's thesis on photo direction of Germany's sixties magazine TWEN. Her main interest is the relationship of photography and graphic design, and Aprilsnow Press is the platform of experimenting its relationship through diverse publishing projects. So far, she has edited and published five photobooks; MASSIN(2015) is one of them. She also lectures and writes on graphic design with a focus on Korean graphic history as well. She has contributed numorous articles on various Korean design magazines. She is the author of three books on graphic design; her first was on WORLD'S TEN ARTDIRECTORS(Ahngraphics, 2007), where artdirectors such as Alexey Brodivitch, Peter Knapp, Willy Fleckhaus and Tibor Kalman were introduced. Her recent book, co-authored by Jeong Jaewan, WORLD'S TEN BOOK DESIGNERS(Ahngraphics, 2016) once again focuces on life, philosophy and works of well-known book designers such as Jost Hochuli, Richard Hollis, Roger Willems, Chip Kidd and David Pearson, to name a few.
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