WESS Exhibition \ Publication 2025 explores how exhibition experiences can be recorded and revisited through publications that remain after an exhibition ends. While exhibitions are often temporary and fleeting, publications continue to circulate across different times and places, generating new contexts. This project focuses on the lasting nature of publications and the time that unfolds beyond the exhibition itself.

In this design, Everyday Practice visualizes the layered and multifaceted character of exhibition publications. By juxtaposing different formats, colors, and textures, the design brings together exhibition, publication, and record as an intertwined state. A friendly character looking at a book serves as a central element, making the potentially heavy subject of exhibition publications more approachable. Rather than defining a clear hierarchy, the design allows multiple perspectives to coexist, suggesting the open-ended possibilities of publications after the exhibition.

The creative direction and design is by Joonho Kwon. They used Neue Sammlung for English text and AG Superblack Gothic for Korean.

Album art for Crumbling, featuring wavy, outlined, slightly-compressed AG Superblack Gothic.

Crumbling is the second album by independent Korean musician Mid-Air Thief (공중도둑). Released in 2018, it won Best Dance & Electronic album at the 2019 Korean Music Awards and gained a minor cult following outside of Korea through online forums such as Rate Your Music. From the webpage for its 2019 physical release by Topshelf Records:

Although sung almost entirely in Korean, Mid-Air Thief's cult-acclaimed album Crumbling exhibits a distinct universality, merging disparate sounds and styles into a cohesive, electronic-infused folk amalgam that tactfully blurs the lines between organic and synthetic. Listeners are led through enrapturing passages of swirling melodies underscored with eloquent plucks, strums, and bursts of bubbly glitches. Individual phrases drift into one another as if in a dream, cohered by guest vocalist Summer Soul's entrancing hooks and vocal soundscapes. Crumbling is a compelling accomplishment of both composition and production, bending as it does to its unique contours of consonance and dissonance, always resolving to a place of calm and beauty.

The album’s front cover, designed by the musician's cousin, features a grainy photo of a man fishing in the distance under a slate-blue sky. Outlined, wavy, and just a bit squished, AG Typography Institute's Superblack Gothic spells out the name of the artist and the title of the album in Hangul. Its back cover features the song titles set in the same typeface, with personnel and a short thank-you message in DX경필명조 Bold. On media related to the Topshelf vinyl release, English text is set in the label’s signature typeface, Base Mono Wide from Emigre.

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Back cover of Crumbling, using warped AG Superblack Gothic (track listing) and DX Gyeongpil Myeongjo (other text).