Jiwon Yu

After graduating from Seoul National University’s Department of Visual Communication Design, Jiwon Yu worked as a book designer at Minumsa Publishing Group. She went on to study typography at Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig, Germany. After graduation, she returned to Korea and worked as a senior researcher at Sandoll Communications. She wrote and designed the specimens of the Hangul typefaces, Sandoll Neo Series. Currently she is a typographer and a research professor at Hongik University. Jiwon occasionally writes columns on typography and classical music.

At HK Between black & white Jiwon Yu will be speaking at:

• Talnemo module, as an equivalent of italics in Hangul typesetting Sun 14 Oct 1140

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