# 참고로 민구홍은…

Born March 5, 1985. I received formal Montessori education in 1989, around the age of five. I first encountered a computer, a Macintosh LC, in 1991, around the age of seven, and made my first website for a dear friend in 1995, around the age of eleven. I studied literature and linguistics at Chung-Ang University and computer programming at the School for Poetic Computation (SFPC) in the US (though I prefer to call it “literature and linguistics in a narrow sense,” or simply “poetic computation”), and learned various practical skills, including knot tying, ikebana, and design, through Google. I worked as a researcher in Professor Ahn Sang-soo’s laboratory at Hongik University (also known as “Wing House”) (despite the title, there was hardly any work to do). After working in the Publishing Division at Ahn Graphics, I work as an editor, designer, and programmer at Workroom, planning books such as Practical Books and Ametora and building websites large and small. Meanwhile, I run the one-person company Min Guhong Manufacturing. I discuss and teach coding from the perspective of “practical yet conceptual writing” at New Order, a self-described “cultural course for modern people.” I have given lectures and workshops large and small at Kaywon University of Art and Design, Asia Culture Center, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Kookmin University, Nanji Art Studio, The Book Society, Tokyo University of the Arts, Studio Pie, Workroom, Ewha Womans University, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul National University, the University of Seoul, Chwimiga, Fruitful School, Hongik University, Korea National University of Arts, and whatreallymatters, among others. I teach at Paju Typography Institute, whose founding I also took part in. Books I have written include New Order (Mediabus, 2019). Books I have translated include Forget All the Rules About Graphic Design. Including the Ones in This Book. (Studio Ghost, 2017). My favorite fruits, in order of size, are watermelon, melon, peach, fig, and cherry.

![The Workroom website redesigned for its fifteenth anniversary. It has since been redesigned again.](https://minguhong.fyi/images/workroom-website-1.png)
![The Workroom website redesigned for its fifteenth anniversary. It has since been redesigned again.](https://minguhong.fyi/images/workroom-website-2.png)
![“thisisneverthisisneverthat,” thisisneverthat, 2020, Kwak Minyoung and Hwang Seokwon. “Ten years of thisisneverthat.”](https://minguhong.fyi/images/thisisneverthisisneverthat-1.png)
![“thisisneverthisisneverthat,” thisisneverthat, 2020, Kwak Minyoung and Hwang Seokwon. “Ten years of thisisneverthat.”](https://minguhong.fyi/images/thisisneverthisisneverthat-2.png)
![“Typojanchi 2021: Turtle and Crane,” International Typography Biennale, 2021, Kim Hyungjin, Park Hwalsung, Yoo Hyunsun, and Lee Jaemin. “Turtle mode to savor the content slowly; crane mode to survey it quickly.”](https://minguhong.fyi/images/typojanchi-2021.png)
![“Seoul Museum of Art’s Open Research Platform, Coral”, Seoul Museum of Art, 2021, Kim Ayoung, Kim Jinju, and Lee Soim. “The tags connecting the content overlap like coral reefs.”](https://minguhong.fyi/images/sema-coral.png)
![“Things like websites should disappear.” (Kim Hyungjin, graphic designer)](https://minguhong.fyi/images/kim-hyungjin.jpg)