Life: A User’s Manual
Exhibition catalog
offset lithograph, adhesive-bound
189 x 255 mm, 208 pp
Life: A User’s Manual was an exhibition that explored new connections between life and design in Korea. For the graphic identity, a photo essay by the Italian designer Bruno Munari – Seeking Comfort in an Uncomfortable Armchair (1949) – was reenacted in a new context. In the original pictures, which show how designers’ intentions are unpredictably met in real life, the dressed-up, middle-aged, white male designer is trying to find a comfortable posture in a heavy armchair. For this reenactment, however, a young, female Korean designer wearing Uniqlo jeans and a t-shirt tried to strike the same poses on a light-weight Muji office chair. The pictures were taken in the empty venue before the show was installed.
For the catalog, we extended the idea and applied it to the exhibited works, which were photographed while being variously used, misused, or abused.
- Project type:
- publication
- Photography by:
- Nam Kiyong
- Typeset in:
- AG Book
- Yoon Gothic
- Printed on:
- Invercote
- smooth uncoated paper
- Printed by:
- Top Process
- Commissioned by:
- Kim Sungwon
- Korea Craft and Design Foundation
- Modeling:
- Kim Jung Yun
