Minjoo Ham is a type designer, typographer and graphic designer from South Korea. She studied graphic design in Seoul (2005-2009), where she discovered her interest in type design. After graduation, she worked for several years at S-Core (CoreFont) foundry as a type designer. In 2014-2015 she completed the TypeMedia master course at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in The Hague, Netherlands, concentrating on research and type design of a Latin and Hangul double-script. After graduation, she was invited to come to Berlin, Germany to work for some months with Fust & Friends, where she designed the Teddy family. She is now an independent type designer in Berlin, producing multi-script font families for corporate clients and various foundries.
Manteuffelstraße 58
10999 Berlin Germany
Phone +49(0) 15756776122
minjoo85@gmail.com
AWARDS
2019
Dunkel Sans: Granshan Competition Korean Typefaces 1st Prize
2018
Teddy: TDC64 Certificate of Typographic Excellence
2016
Koppla: Pangramme, International student typedesign Exhibition
2008
Tokyo TDC
2006-2012
Korean Typeface Design Competition, Sejong Korea
PUBLICATIONS
Graphic Magazine #44 BERLIN ISSUE - STUDIO RENTAL GUIDE
GQ Korea September 2019
TypoJanchi 2019
Outlook variable: Eye Magazine blog
Making Teddy: ilovetypography.com
타입 디자인 정보 교류의 장, 타이포랩스 2018 _ 함민주: the T No.12
Connecting Scripts: Building bridges between Latin and Hangul: Typolabs 18
Fust&Friends: Page
Type Design: LetterSeed 글자씨 16
2017
A new generation of type designers: TypeMagazine
Photo: Norman Posselt
TALKS & WORKSHOPS
Learning Hangul script design: from writing to type | atypi18 Antwerp
Connecting Scripts: Building bridges between Latin and Hangul | Typolabs 18
SELECTED CLIENTS
Grilli Type, Monotype, Sharp Type
CV