Cabbage Thoughts

• Dance performance poster
• 2009 
• offset lithograph, spot varnished
• 594 x 841 mm

The “wrinkling” effect used in the typography reminds of the cabbage referred to in the performance’s title, but the technique itself had originally been developed for a rejected sketch for a different project.

• Project type:
• poster

• Typeset in:
• HY Gungseo
• Minion

• Printed on:
• matte coated paper

• Printed by:
• Top Process

• Commissioned by:
• Park Na-hoon

• Exhibited as part of:
• How Posters Work (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, 2015–16)
• Korea Now! Craft, Fashion, and Graphic Design in Korea (Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris, 2015–16)
• Korea: Design + Poster (Die neue Sammlung, Munich, 2017)
• Typojanchi 2017 (Culture Station Seoul 284, 2017)
• Graphic West 9: Sulki & Min (Kyoto DDD Gallery, 2021)
• Modes and Characters: Poetics of Graphic Design (21_21 Design Sight, Tokyo, 2023–24)
• Digital Witness: Revolutions in Design, Photography, and Film (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2024–25)

• Included in the collections of:
• Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (New York)
• Die Neue Sammlung (Munich)
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art
• Musée des Arts décoratifs (Paris)
• Victoria and Albert Museum (London)