Concepts, People, Objects, 2 Issues This is the first time I have been in and out of the school library to borrow books as often as in 2021. There were quite a lot of students who came to school to take classes, but the majority took non-face-to-face classes. So,…
Small Thoughts in 2021:Stray Thoughts on Instagram Star Designer Jaime Hayón Now, art galleries in Korea, including national and municipal art galleries, are focusing on social media marketing and decorating their exhibitions centered on photo zones in order to…
Sending my Prettily Packaged Heart The designer has long contemplated what it is a designer must embrace to be a designer. Of course, I’m not the only one who thinks this way. If you are a designer, you will need this as you will need to know what your identity…
Korea’s Aging Society and Future Promising Industries Last year, in 2020, about 270,000 births and 300,000 deaths were recorded in Korea, marking the first year in which the population declined. Just three years ago, in 2017, considering the fact that Statistics…
Sustainability and Universal Design This year, the 2020 Dubai Expo, which was postponed due to COVID-19 last year, was held based on the theme of sustainability, mobility, and opportunity, and through this international event, we were reminded once again about…
Becoming a Competent Product Designer: The Design Engineering Competencies We Need Today and Tomorrow I would like to present one of many ways to become a competent product designer. I would like to mention in advance that this direction is not an absolutely correct…
Assistive Devices and Design I am Kim Jihae, a design researcher. I am a person who studies the interaction between people and artifacts such as products, services, and spaces that surround them and derives guidance related to design. In the scope of my design…
Design that Captures the Values of Someone Here are a few thoughts that came to mind when I asked designers to talk about values this year at YSID. When I was learning design, I thought the most about who would be the beneficiaries. When problematizing a certain…
COVID-19 diary 2020 I had thought during going for work whether the confirmed cases at Korea University Hospital and Daegu City might be rare cases accidently visited hospitals out of the virus carriers widely walking on the street. The reason of my thinking is…
Tracing back 2020: COVID-19 regret Vast virus attack started from the beginning of 2020. The nature has been collapsed precipitously by the random development through taking it as the highest virtue by the blinded human to the capital revenue only. All five great…
Standing at a crossroad of blocking and liberation…. The designer should know evidently what should be blocked in order to design the blocking. The blocking existed in the meantime and exists now. The upper classes in many countries with restless political situation…
Social changes and design at ‘With corona’ era The most spoken rhetoric at year-end is a year of events and difficulties. But nobody has ever experienced it as much as in this year. On January 20, 2020, we met spring with a wish that it will extinct as weather warms…