This Typography is awesome, amusing, and inspiring!

 

These are some of Chang Kim’s recent designs that are based on his personal exercise. We really enjoyed them. My favourite is the first one were he plays with his name and his.. expressions. Click on links to view more of these series.

 

Self-portrait series

 

Typogram totem pole: variation of the name “CHANG” in chinese characters and in korean characters(hangle)

 

Mr. “R” series: The last day of life

 

Chang Kim “make you turn green

 

Daily typographic pun, theme: Man & Woman

 CHANG’s four seasons

 

 

Daily typographic pun, theme: Animal

Birthday dinner on 3.11

 

Chang Sik Kim has expertise in metamorphic image making with experimental typography and book design as well as visual identity design.

His recent works and research have emphasized dynamic interactive design. He was an assistant professor at An Yang Technical College and a lecturer at several other universities in Korea. He also taught graphic design courses in the University of Illinois at Urbana–champaign, and received the “Teaching Excellence Award,” 1999–2000.

Chang has published three complete books and articles and held three solo exhibitions that contain works on extremely diverse experimental subjects. Professionally, he designed several newspapers, magazines, and more than 150 book covers besides creating many successful characters in Korea and on-line class web sites.

His research papers, articles, and works have appeared in various professional publications.

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Maria Papaefstathiou

VISUAL DESIGNER since 1996 and blogger since 2010. Living in Athens, Greece. She has been focusing her research on poster design and particularly on social poster design and portrait design. Her main poster project is a series of posters celebrating great personalities of traditional and popular culture in Greece and Jamaica. These include actors, singers, musicians, poets etc. This is an ongoing project. “I believe that design is a powerful tool that we designers can use to spark enthusiasm, change mindsets and bring positive actions to our world and our culture”. FOUNDER AND EDITOR OF GRAPHICART-NEWS.COM BLOG. She carefully curates high-quality designs, illustrations, and art, from all over the world that will teach and provoke other designers. Many consider her blog to be an exceptional educational tool. CO-FOUNDER OF THE INTERNATIONAL REGGAE POSTER CONTEST which was launched on December 2011, partnering, the creative activist Michael Thompson aka Freestylee. (www.reggaepostercontest.com)

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