about
Yongwook Seong [ joŋuk sʌŋ ] is a designer, holding a Master of Architecture degree from University of British Columbia, Vancouver. His interest lies in various fields including architecture, furniture design, lighting design, visual arts and etc. He lives in Banff, AB, Canada.
EDUCATION:
Architecture, Master of Architecture,
University of British Columbia, Vancouver/Canada
International Relations, Bachelor of Arts,
University of Calgary, Calgary/Canada
High School Diploma,
Whimoon High School, Seoul/South Korea
AWARDS & HONOURS:
2021, Bronze, A’ Design Award, Como/Italy
Coral Blanche, Lighting Products and Lighting Projects Design Category
2021, Good Design Awards, Chicago/USA
Eiffel, Furniture Category
2020, Bronze, A’ Design Award, Como/Italy
Accordio, Pet Supplies and Products for Animals Design Category
2020, Bronze, A’ Design Award, Como/Italy
Froggie, Lighting Products and Lighting Projects Design Category
2020, LIT Lighting Design Awards, Los Angeles/USA
Comet 2020, Honourable Mention, Professional Categories/Hanging Lights
2020, LIT Lighting Design Awards, Los Angeles/USA
Coral Blanche, Honourable Mention, Professional Categories/Desk Lamps and Floor Lamps
2020, LIT Lighting Design Awards, Los Angeles/USA
Miss Osculation, Honourable Mention, Professional Categories/Hanging Lights
2020, Good Design Awards, Chicago/USA
Miss Osculation, Lighting Category
2020, Good Design Awards, Chicago/USA
Pisa, Furniture Category
2019, LIT Lighting Design Awards, Los Angeles/USA
Sleepless Architect, Professional Categories/Hanging Lights
2019, Architecture MasterPrize, Los Angeles/USA
Becoming Salmon, Architectural Design/Other Architecture
M.Arch Thesis Project: Becoming Animal Ch. 3 (Thesis Advisor: Prof. Chris Macdonald)
2019, Architecture MasterPrize, Los Angeles/USA
Becoming Salmon, Architectural Design/Misc. Architecture
M.Arch Thesis Project: Becoming Animal Ch. 3 (Thesis Advisor: Prof. Chris Macdonald)
2019, Architecture MasterPrize, Los Angeles/USA
Becoming Raven, Landscape Architecture/Other Landscape Architecture
M.Arch Thesis Project: Becoming Animal Ch. 1 (Thesis Advisor: Prof. Chris Macdonald)
2019, Architecture MasterPrize, Los Angeles/USA
Becoming Raven, Landscape Architecture/Gardens
M.Arch Thesis Project: Becoming Animal Ch. 1 (Thesis Advisor: Prof. Chris Macdonald)
2018, Silver, International Design Awards, Los Angeles/USA
Becoming Salmon, Architecture Categories/Other Designs
M.Arch Thesis Project: Becoming Animal Ch. 3 (Thesis Advisor: Prof. Chris Macdonald)
2018, Bronze, International Design Awards, Los Angeles/USA
Becoming Raven, Architecture Categories/Landscape
M.Arch Thesis Project: Becoming Animal Ch. 1 (Thesis Advisor: Prof. Chris Macdonald)
2017, Editors’ Choice, LAKA Competition: Architecture that reacts, Poland
Tide Interactive Seaplane Terminal, Selected to LAKA Editors’ Choice 2017
2017, Gold, International Design Awards, Los Angeles/USA
Tide Interactive Seaplane Terminal, Architecture Categories/Other Architectural Designs
2017, Gold, International Design Awards, Los Angeles/USA
Tide Interactive Seaplane Terminal, Architecture Categories/New Commercial Building
2017, Silver, International Design Awards, Los Angeles/USA
Walking Caterpillar, Architecture Categories/Institutional
2017, Bronze, A’ Design Award, Como/Italy
Tide Interactive Seaplane Terminal, Architecture, Building and Structure Design Category
2016, Shortlist, Red Dot Award: Design Concept, Singapore
Bookhouse Latrine, Public Space Category
2016, Shortlist, Red Dot Award: Design Concept, Singapore
C 39, Furniture Category
2016, Silver, International Design Awards, Los Angeles/USA
Digital Inunnguaq, Architecture Categories/Lighting
2016, Silver, A’ Design Award, Como/Italy
C 39, Furniture, Decorative Items and Homeware Design Category
2016, Iron, A’ Design Award, Como/Italy
Bookhouse Latrine, Social Design Category
2015, Iron, A’ Design Award, Como/Italy
Metro Highway, Furniture, Decorative Items and Homeware Design Category
ACCOLADES:
2016, Nominee for the Designer of the Year
International Association of Designers, Como/Italy
SELECTED PRESS APPEARANCES:
2023, “Yongwook Seong Reimagines Inuit Community's Dwellings And Cultures With Midjourney”, April
Nuna was published on World Architecture Community, World
2023, “God is in the details”, April
Pisa and Coral Blanche were published on Modern Decoration Magazine, Shenzhen/China
2023, “Neo Coral City by Yongwook Seong”, April
Neo Coral City was published on Amazing Architecture, Mexico City/Mexico
2023, “Nuna by Yongwook Seong”, March
Nuna was published on Amazing Architecture, Mexico City/Mexico
2023, “AI imagines surreal structures that fuse arctic land with living forms and mythical figures”, March
Nuna was published on Designboom, Milan/Italy
2023, “A’ Design Award & Competition – Call for Entries”, February
Coral Blanche was mentioned on Design Milk, Seattle/USA
2023, “Comics with AI art: what’s out there, what’s to come”, January
Mask Temple at Seorak Mountain was mentioned on The Beat, NYC/USA
2022, “3D printed marine structures revive perishing neo coral city in yongwook seong’s AI art”, November
Neo Coral City was published on Designboom, Milan/Italy
2022, “yongwook seong depicts banff as extraterrestrial park in new AI-generated series”, Designboom, October
Banff Extraterrestrial Park was published on Designboom, Milan/Italy
2022, “yongwook seong’s AI graphic novel depicts a mystical journey through seorak mountain”, Designboom, September
Mask Temple at Seorak Mountain was published on Designboom, Milan/Italy
2022, "TOP 10 LIGHTING DESIGNS TO ILLUMINATE YOUR LIVING SPACE", Yanko Design, July
Coral Blanche was selected as one of top 10 lighting designs by Yanko Design, Yanko Design, Vancouver/Canada
2022, "THIS CORAL-INSPIRED LIGHTING INSTALLATION ALSO HELPS RAISE AWARENESS AGAINST CORAL BLEACHING", Yanko Design, July
Coral Blanche was featured on Yanko Design, Vancouver/Canada
2022, "Impossible Birdhouses", KoozArch, July
Impossible Birdhouses was featured on KoozArch, Italy
2022, "2022年 A' 设计奖照明类获奖作品欣赏", Art and Design, May
Coral Blanche was mentioned on Art and Design, Beijing/China
2022, "建模简单又特别出效果，难怪设计师都喜欢用「房子」做设计！", Art and Design, April
Accordio was mentioned on Art and Design, Beijing/China
2022, "A’ Design Award: Your Chance To Take Your Work Onto The Global Stage", Design Taxi, Feb
Accordio was mentioned on Design Taxi, Singapore/Singapore
2021, "PET-FRIENDLY PRODUCTS TO KEEP YOUR PET COMFORTABLE + SAFE ON YOUR NEXT HOLIDAY!", Yanko Design, May
Accordio was mentioned on Yanko Design, Vancouver/Canada
2021, "矽膠寵物屋 折疊收藏不佔地", on.cc Hong Kong, May
Accordio was featured on on.cc Hong Kong, HKSAR/China
2021, "The Conceptual 'Accordio' Pet House Allows for Easy Storage", Trend Hunter, May
Accordio was featured on Trend Hunter, Toronto/Canada
2021, “THIS PET HOUSE IS DESIGNED LIKE AN ACCORDION WITH SILICONE AND MAGNETS SO IT CAN BE FLAT-PACKED!”, Yanko Design, May
Accordio was featured on Yanko Design, Vancouver/Canada
2021, “The unusual basketball hoops by Yongwook Seong”, Collater.ai, April
The Hoops was featured on Collater.ai, Milan/Italy
2021, “bizarre basketball hoops by yongwook seong explore alternative designs for the sport”, Designboom, April
The Hoops was featured on Designboom, Milan/Italy
2021, “是什么让灯具变得纤细了”, Art and Design, March
Miss Osculation was mentioned on Art and Design, Beijing/China
2021, “My Character Design Project “The Pins”, Bored Panda, March
The Pins was featured on Bored Panda, Vilnius/Lithuania
2021, “可堆疊的設計家具 收納變成世界遺產”, Cool3c, March
Eiffel/Pisa were featured on Cool3c, Taipei/Taiwan
2021, “一人暮らしにもぴったり！テーブルや椅子に変身する「エッフェル塔」はいかが？”, TABI LABO, February
Eiffel was featured on TABI LABO, Tokyo/Japan
2021, “Коллекция мебели в виде Эйфелевой башни”, ELLE Decoration, February
Eiffel was featured on ELLE Decoration, Moscow/Russia
2021, “Yongwook Seong reimagines the Eiffel Tower as a stackable furniture collection”, Designboom, February
Eiffel was featured on Designboom, Milan/Italy
2021, "Pluripremiato designer crea set d'arredamento da salotto ispirato alla Torre di Pisa", Finestre sull'Arte, January
Pisa was featured on Finestre sull'Arte, Massa/Italy
2021, GOOD DESIGN AWARD 2020, TUTTI I VINCITORI, Ville e Giardini, January
Pisa was featured on Ville e Giardini, Milan/Italy
2021, Pisa furniture por Yongwook Seong, Ambientes Digital, January
Pisa was featured on Ambientes Digital, Santiago/Chile
2021, Il set di arredamento che “scompone” la Torre di Pisa, Sky Arte, January
Pisa was featured on Sky Arte, Milan/Italy
2021, "ΕΙΚΟΝΕΣ: Έπιπλα για το σπίτι εμπνευσμένα από… τον Πύργο της Πίζας!", Parallaxi Magazine, January
Pisa was featured on Parallaxi Magazine, Thessaloniki/Greece
2021, "与LOEWE和《龙猫》一起，开启奇妙森林之旅", ELLE Men, January
Pisa was featured on ELLE Men, Beijing/China
2020, “比薩斜塔融入家中”, on.cc Hong Kong, January
Pisa was featured on on.cc Hong Kong, HKSAR/China
2020, “比萨家具”, IDEAT China, December
Pisa was featured on IDEAT China, Beijing/China
2020, “Кореец предложил разобрать «Пизанскую башню» ради мебели”, December
Pisa was featured on LENTA.RU, Moscow/Russia
2020, “Yongwook Seong deconstructs the Tower of Pisa into stackable home furniture”, Designboom, December
Pisa was featured on Designboom, Milan/Italy
2018, “Post-Facebook : The Future Of Social Media”, Bored Panda, June
Post-Facebook was featured on Bored Panda, Vilnius/Lithuania
2017, “A' Design Award and Competition Results: 20 of Our Favorite Award-Winning Projects”, Core77, August
C 39 was selected as one of the top 20 winners from 1958 A’ Design Award winners, Core77, New York/USA
2017, “20 Award-Winning Designs at A’ Design Award 2017 That Caught Our Eye”, Homecrux, May
C 39 was selected as one of the top 20 award-winning designs from 1958 A’ Design Award winners, Homecrux
2017, "The Winners Of 2017’s A’ Design Award & Competition Have Just Been Announced, And They’re Genius", Bored Panda, April
Bookhouse Latrine was selected as one of the most handy inventions, Bored Panda, Vilnius/Lithuania
Language:
Korean (Native)