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Byung-hak Ahn
www.designsai.com
ahn@designsai.com
Birthplace: Seoul, Korea
Residence: Boston, USA
Connecting cities: Tokyo, Japan/New York, USA/Boston, USA
numerous projects, several of which have
earned him international distinctions.
In addition, he is actively involved as a
professor and lecturer in an academic
context.
“I oppose the characteristic distinction
between design and art as creative
activities. I am motivated by everything
I fi nd stimulating and I always aim to
place myself at the frontiers of design
and any other discipline. This is not
somewhere with coordinated data, but
BYUNG-HAK AHN IS a Korean graphic
designer who currently lives in Boston,
where he works for the Design Sai studio
located in Seoul. Design Sai is a renowned
Korean Graphic studio which specializes
in editorial and printed projects, visual
identity, signage, information design, and
interactive design for important local and
international clients.
He studied visual communication at the
University of Hongik and has worked
in graphic design and art direction for
a space in continual movement and
the marks that this movement leaves
behind. I call this ‘Sai’ in Korean and I
believe that it is a place for creation and
experimentation.”
For Ahn and Design Sai the twenty-fi rst
century is a time for “diversity of thought
and ideas,” an historic moment where
the celebration of differences and the
appreciation of all things multicultural
will see the blossoming of a new creativity.
New York, USA
Tokyo, Japan
Seoul, Korea
Boston, USA
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Kaywon Art & Design Festival/Poster No.1/Designer: Sun-soon Shin, Se-mi
Yoon; illustrator: Young-soo Kim/2006
Kaywon Art & Design Festival/Poster No.2/Designer: Sun-soon Shin, Se-mi Yoon;
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FID/Brochure/Designer: Byung-hak Ahn/2002
GICFF/Flyer/Designer: Dong-young Lee/2005
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