SUNKYUNG CHO
By Yvonne Gilbert
Every year we have gone to Bologna we have gravitated towards the far eastern publishers first as their sensitivity towards all things paper and their meticulous approach to book design is consistently the best at the show. Danny and I have worked closely with Grimm Press of Taiwan for many years and it has been an eye-opening experience.
This year we were lucky to meet Sunkyung Cho an artist, lecturer and book designer from Korea and have a brief chat with him about his work. He is a truly outstanding individual whose work takes book design to a higher art form. He lives and works in Seoul where he also runs an intensive course in book design. Here are three books we bought from him—delicate, enigmatic and unique.
