The Journey of Arita
A typographic design book with various stories including the importance in the development of Korean terminology and collaboration between designers. The book The Journey of Arita covers everything related to the Arita font, which has long been veiled, encompassing how the corporate typefaces were born, the story behind the font design, cases where these typefaces were used, interviews with 14 of the designers involved in the design per font, documentary photographs showing the process of creating typefaces, and products and books that use the Arita font.
The Journey of Arita Book Design by Sunghoon Kim was recognized as an innovative example of communication design by the A' Design Award. The Journey of Arita Book Design won the Silver A' Design Award in Print and Published Media Design in 2021. The A' Print and Published Media Design Award is an international, juried, academic and meritocratic design recognition program that celebrates superior design of brochures, posters, magazines, catalogs, flyers, business cards, billboards, books and more.
