Young Sensibility! Craft Design Star Products in 2020

Even with the same lacquer, the feeling of painting on the surface and the inside is different when working with glass, but the artist flexibly accepts these variables as the charm of the material.

The Pep Button series started from the memory of the artist picking up smooth stones over a long period of time on the beach and keeping them like pleasant totems—reminiscent of nature—by windows or desks.

With the symbolism of blessings captured in traditional Korean patterns as its motif, a fabric series called The Tiger That Brings Blessings described tigers in a modern sense.

The broom, handmade by weaving natural materials such as straw, sorghum, and bush clover, was a symbolic tool for gathering blessings and sweeping misfortune away in the past.

During the Joseon Dynasty, embroidery artisans in the royal court’s workroom were called Hwaajang (“children of flowers”). The title of the Children of Flowers series was made based on that tradition.

Depending on the type of cocktail, different shapes of cups are used. Attracted by the forms of cocktail cups and a jigger, a measuring tool used to make cocktails, the artist completed small white porcelain cups in the form of miniature cocktail cups.

Chilbo is a traditional craft that mainly decorates metal objects or ornaments by applying melted glassy glaze powder, and it first appeared in gold jewelry during the Three Kingdoms Period (57 BC to 668 AD).

Among the various materials of ceramics, the artist is especially interested in glaze, and thought about a not-too-excessive decoration that could be a defining feature in the simple forms of cups.

To make the Conch series ornaments, the artist imagined something that could capture the voice of one’s heart like a conch shell that delivers the sound of the sea. This series includes norigae (a traditional ornament) and brooches (a modern ornament).

Somoksobok is a craft brand that uses Korea’s unique mother-of-pearl technique called tabalbeop (a method of cracking shells by tapping them with a chisel to attach them to a flat surface) to inscribe various patterns in wood.