Yoonho Choi

[Curatorial Advisor] - Advised curators as a professional especially to understand histories of ordinary objects related to Korean food culture. [Guest interviewer] - Interviewing and writing articles dealing with Korean makers and producers based on small-scale production. from 2013. [Co-translator] - Stephan Bailey & Terence Conran, Design: Intelligence Made Visible, Design House, Seoul, Kr, 2009.

Directing an internet news media dedicated to the Korean tech and startup scenes.

Directing digital projects and activities in the company’s Media department, including digital magazines such as Olive Magazine Korea, Lonely Planet Magazine Korea, in-flight magazine ASIANA, digital titles labeled as Lonely Planet, magazine websites, mobile applications, and other emerging media platforms.

Prepared a newly launched journalism magazine Delayed Gratification’s Korean edition as its editorial director in communication with the UK edition’s editorial team in London.

Managed core researches for the launch of D&Department Project Seoul, originally founded by a Japanese designer Kenmei Nagaoka. The goal of the research was identifying local productions and makers, and their products. Edited the Korean edition of Kenmei's book 디앤디파트먼트에서 배운다, 사람들이 모여드는 전하는 가게 만드는 법.

Design History course (3 hours) - Dept. of Crafts, Graduate School, Sungshin Women's University

Managed e-publishing projects in the company's Media and Publishing divisions, including Lonely Planet Magazine Korea(under-licensed from BBC Worldwide and Immediate Media, UK), in-flight magazine ASIANA, Lonely Planet(wireless mobile travel guide under-licensed from Lonely Planet in Australia), and several ebooks labeled as ‘Ahn-graphics’ and its imprint ‘Culturegrapher’. Lonely Planet Magazine Korea’s Digital Edition was one of the first digital magazines (next to GQ Korea) in Korea.

Managed web-based design news service Designflux and curated several exhibitions as a staff researcher for such as Design Olympics for Seoul Metropolitan Government, in co-operation with US and Italy-based design media and contents agencies like CORE77 and DESIGN BOOM.

Designed websites and digital works as a senior graphic designer, including SK Telecom, LG AD, YAHOO Style Korean edition, Lonely Planet Korea and ABROAD projects.

Created a whole website for a commercial magazine My Wedding as a student free-lancer, and it was a very rare case in 1997. HTML hard-coding and some design works such as photoshop image processing were included.

Analysis of Alternative Design Exhibitions since 2000

Metal product design