Yuseon Park is a graphic designer, researcher, and educator whose work focuses on typography and research-based multidisciplinary practice.
She has a background in Visual Communication Design and Art Studies from Hongik University (BFA, BA) and an MFA in Graphic Design from the Yale School of Art. She is currently a Ph.D. researcher at the University of Reading, supervised by Gerry Leonidas and Irmi Wachendorff.
In 2019, she founded PLANE AND VERTICAL, and since 2024 has been co-publishing Soft Hard with Immanuel Yang. Before founding PLANE AND VERTICAL in 2019, She worked at Ahn Graphics, ONE O ONE Architects, and the AG Typography Institute.
She is currently an Adjunct Professor at Hongik University and serves as Director of Scholarly Publications at the Korean Society of Typography.
CONTACT
yuseon@planeandvertical.com
BIO (formal, long)
Yuseon Park (b. 1989, Seoul) is a graphic designer, researcher, and educator whose practice engages typography as a site of research, pedagogy, and multidisciplinary experimentation.
She has a background in Visual Communication Design and Art Studies from Hongik University (BFA, BA) and an MFA in Graphic Design from the Yale School of Art. She is currently a Ph.D. researcher at the University of Reading, supervised by Gerry Leonidas and Irmi Wachendorff.
In 2019, she founded PLANE AND VERTICAL, and since 2024 has been co-publishing Soft Hard with Immanuel Yang. Before founding PLANE AND VERTICAL in 2019, She worked at Ahn Graphics, ONE O ONE Architects, and the AG Typography Institute. She is currently an Adjunct Professor at Hongik University and serves as Director of Scholarly Publications at the Korean Society of Typography.
Personal Copy, the MFA thesis at the Yale School of Art, develops alternative instruments that reproduce and reorganize repetitive labor through processes of automation and autonomy, while preserving the agency and judgment of the designer. It also attempts to restore empathy for the conditions of design labor.
Design practice is approached as an activity that entails subjectivity, interpretation, intervention, and adaptation—qualities that constitute a foundation of visual culture. The project emphasizes the personal and situated nature of utterance, treating it as active and responsive data.
Within design environments structured by systems of hierarchy and control, Personal Copy involves the collection, archiving, and presentation of data sets, approaching technology and machines as collaborators. Automation is understood not only as a mechanism of efficiency but as a strategic device to transform repetitive tasks and expand the possibilities of designerly intervention. In this context, graphic design reveals how personal narrative can unfold into public discourse.
예일대학교 미술대학원 석사 학위 논문 Personal Copy는 자동–자율화를 통해 반복적 노동을 재생산하고, 디자이너의 판단과 실천을 보존하는 대안적 도구를 제안한다. 이는 디자이너의 노동에 대한 공감을 회복하려는 시도이기도 하다.
디자인 작업은 주관성과 해석, 개입과 적응을 포함하며, 이는 시각문화의 기반이 된다. 발화 위치의 개인적이고 개별적인 성격에 주목하며, 이를 활기차고 능동적인 데이터로 간주한다.
구조와 위계를 내포한 디자인 환경 속에서 데이터의 수집, 아카이빙, 제시를 수행하고, 이 과정에서 기술과 기계를 협력자로 다룬다. 자동–자율화는 반복적 노동을 전환하고 디자이너의 개입 가능성을 확장하는 장치로 작동한다. 이러한 맥락에서 그래픽 디자인은 개인적 서사가 공적 담론으로 이어지는 과정을 드러낸다.