Field of Activity
Jinsu Ahn teaches Typography, Book Design, and Conceptualization in the BA and MA degree programmes at the Institute Digital Communication Environments (IDCE). He is also in charge of the BA proofs of performance and the next-generation exhibition of the institute.
Biography
Jinsu Ahn has been a lecturer in the BA and MA programmes at the Institute Digital Communication Environments (IDCE) at the FHNW Basel Academy of Art and Design (HGK) since 2014. He has been teaching Typography, Book Design, and Conceptualisation since 2011.
Before graduating with the UIC/HGK International Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Graphic Design, he completed the FH diploma specializing in Typography at HGK Basel and the BA in Visual Communication Design at Kyoungpook National University in Daegu, South Korea.
He has successfully completed various design projects, including a research project to develop a public design strategy in Daegu City, a documentation project for the Novartis Campus and the development of a visual identity for the Upper Rhine Region – Switzerland, France, and Germany. He has also translated Jan Tschichold's books Typographische Gestaltung and Ausgewählte Aufsätze über Fragen der Gestalt des Buches und der Typographie as well as Emil Ruder's work Typographie into Korean. Jinsu Ahn regularly publishes in international specialist journals on the subject of typography and heads workshops in the CAS Visual Literacy advanced-education programme of HGK Basel.
Projects
- Translation of Emil Ruder: Typographie (Teufen 1967) in Korean. Ahn Graphics, Seoul 2023
- Translation of Jan Tschichold: Ausgewählte Aufsätze über Fragen der Gestalt des Buches und der Typographie (Basel 1975) in Korean. Ahn Graphics, Seoul 2022
- Translation of Jan Tschichold: Typographische Gestaltung (Basel 1935) in Korean. Ahn Graphics, Seoul 2014
- Ich bin das Licht, video documentation for the annual book of Theater Basel, 2009
- Novartis Campus documentation project, 2005 to 2008
Talks
- Learning from critical voices, Swiss-Korean Design Educators Exchange, Embassy of Switzerland in Seoul, 2023
- ER Typography, Ahn Graphics / ujd.promenade, Seoul, 2023
- On “on form of the book”, Ahn Graphics / Sojeonseolim, Seoul, 2022
Publications
- Jinsu Ahn: Univers, in: Typozimmer 1–6, Seoul 2021
- Jinsu Ahn: Variable Font 2 – seen from the principle of Avenir, in: the T, No.13, Seoul 2019
- Jinsu Ahn: Variable Font, in: the T, No.12, Seoul 2018
- Jinsu Ahn: The dynamism of Hangeul’s vertical strokes and the flow of its lines of writing, in: Visible Language. The Journal of Visual Communication Research, Vol. 51 Issue 3-52.1, Cincinnati 2017
- Jinsu Ahn: On Schiff nach Europa, in: the T, No.11, Seoul 2017
- Jinsu Ahn: Sabon, in: LetterSeed 10, Vol.6 No.2, Seoul 2014
- Jinsu Ahn: A Study on the Proposition in Contemporary Posters in Japan, Tsukuba 2003
Exhibitions, awards
- DMY International Design Festival Berlin, 2011
- Time and Image, eikones, The National Centre of Competence in Research NCCR Iconic Criticism and HGK FHNW, Basel, 2010
- The Visual Materialization of Remembrance-images, Swiss Design Network Symposium ’09 (SDN), Lugano, 2009
- Ornament and Design Process, eikones, The National Centre of Competence in Research NCCR Iconic Criticism and HGK FHNW, Basel, 2008
- Nomination: Design Network Switzerland (DNS) Award, 2008
- Say what you see – Sori: Phonetic alphabet for learning Korean, Royal College of Art, School of Design, London, 2008
- 2nd price at the Competition of ideas: Vision for the Upper Rhine Region, Germany, France and Switzerland, 2008