[Herald Design Forum] Boundary-pushing consultants share insights at Herald Design Discussion board 2024

The Herald Design Discussion board 2024 passed off Tuesday at Sebitseom in southern Seoul, within the floating cultural advanced in Han river with the theme of “Inspiration, Limitless?” inviting architects, designers, visible content material creators and prime consultants in cutting-edge know-how who push their boundary within the fields.

“For the previous 13 years, the Herald Design Discussion board has introduced collectively greater than 100 design consultants to debate how design has developed and altered our society, joined by greater than 1,000,000 audiences thus far,” mentioned Choi Jin-young, the CEO and writer of Herald Corp. on the discussion board.

“This yr’s discussion board ‘Inspiration, Limitless?’ casts a query about how far we are able to push ahead our inspiration and curiosity when it comes to design. I’m very wanting ahead to listening to the insights from the consultants in the present day,” he added.

The 14th version of the discussion board introduced collectively 13 audio system for 3 periods – structure, prolonged actuality (XR), synthetic intelligence (AI), visible results (VFX) and Creators.

The discussion board started with congratulatory remarks from Yu In-chon, minister of tradition, sports activities and tourism and Seoul’s Vice Mayor on Political Affairs Kim Byung-min.

“I want to specific my honest congratulations to opening the Asia’s largest design discussion board. I hope the discussion board supplies a chance to audiences to be taught the worth of design via the world’s famend designers. The federal government will put full efforts to assist the fields of design and visible content material,” mentioned Yu on video remarks.

As the primary audio system, Pritzker-winning architect duo Anne Lacaton and Jean Philippe Vassal delivered a lecture titled “Optimism” and shared their ideas on structure design, expressing a respect to the prevailing and the way they’ve averted the method to demolishing buildings or nature to construct a brand new one.

French architect Jean-Michel Wilmotte talked about the Centre Pompidou challenge which is ongoing in Seoul on the 63 constructing in Yeouido. The Centre Pompidou department in Seoul is about to open subsequent yr.

The three architects had a chat at a roundtable session for Q&A session the place they shared their very own philosophy in structure. “(My architectural) philosophy is eager to do one thing for others, not for myself. I believe that is actually essential,” mentioned Wilmotte.

The XR session adopted after lunch break, opening with a lecture by Johnny Lee, founding father of iStaging, a Taipei-based tech agency specializing in digital actuality options, with the theme of “Design a journey to see creativeness via XR.”

Ahn Chang-wook, a professor on the Gwangju Institute of Science and Expertise and the creator of South Korea’s first AI composer, spoke for the AI session, introducing Korea’s first AI composer EvoM.

The VFX session was led by award-winning movement graphic designer Kim Gryun and two consultants from Weta FX, one of many world’s main visible results firms. Weta CG supervisor Choi Jong-jin who devoted to crafting the sensible and gorgeous water scenes within the 2022 blockbuster “Avatar 2: The Method of Water” and Hwang Jung-rock, a senior facial modeler at Weta FX, emphasised the significance of artists’ creativity in facial modeling, by sharing his work on “Avatar 2: The Method of Water.

A particular discuss was held because the final session with visible content material creators — visible artists Kim Ha-na, Koo Ji-min and Hong In-hye – sharing their experiences as a webtoon creator, emoji designer or cartoonist. They mentioned the importance of common arts kinds and delved into the place they draw inspiration.

The Herald Design Discussion board 2024 held the inaugural design contest, titled “Herald Eco Emoticon Contest” to award designers for one of the best emoticon, or emotion icon, that raises an consciousness concerning the local weather disaster.

The grand prize went to Kim Jae-hyo for the character “Jikigom” successful 5 million gained ($3,724) prize cash whereas Jo Eun-yee, Yang Eun-seo, Jang Yun-jeong and Kim Joo-hui gained the excellence award, given 1,000,000 gained prize cash for every winner.