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2019“Perfectly beautiful things don’t attract me”: Heesun Seo on her nontraditional practice
At the age of 12, Seoul-based designer Heesun Seo first ventured into the world of graphic design when she came across an online forum for Photoshop and HTML. She talks us through her unusual route into the medium and how she “didn’t know what the term ‘graphic design’ was," finding it out for herself.
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Jaeho Shin explores letters as polyhedric sculptures, then designs posters from his findings