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.

CV
Translate Real Estate 1.0. Exhibited in Art on Loop London–Athens at London, UK / Athens, GR.         Collaborated with Jaekook Han. 2024.      
Translate Real Estate 1.0. Exhibited in 72 Warren St, New York, NY, US. Collaborated with Jaekook Han. 2023.      
Swing. Projection installation, video performance. Collaborated with Avery Youngblood, Gabriela Rassi, Sophie Kyle Collins. Presented in the basement of 36 Edgewood, New Haven, CT, US. 2023.      
Personal Copy. Programming, Python. Dimensions variable. Developed by Kwanyoung Lee. 2022.      
Personal Copy. Video installation, typeface, publication. Mixed media, dimensions variable.         Exhibited in As they made their way out at Green Hall Gallery, New Haven, CT, US. 2023.      
This Manifesto is Silent. II. Installation. LCD Display, Acrylic on pillow. 5 inch, 28 × 20 × 6 inches.         Exhibited in A prologue to somewhere at Green Hall Gallery, New Haven, CT, US. 2022.      
This Manifesto is Silent. I. Installation. Mixed media, dimensions variable. Exhibited in 11th Hongik Art Exhibition at Hongik Museum of Art, Seoul. 2016.