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About Publisher
Aprilsnow Press is a small publishing house based in Daegu, Korea. Launched in 2013, it publishes a small number of books per year, mostly photobooks. Run by design writer Kay Jun and book designer Jeong Jaewan, Aprilsnow Press revolves around three keywords: photography, text, and design. Having a shared background in graphic design, both Kay Jun and Jeong Jaewan see publishing as part of their investigation of the relationship among photography, text, and design. Each book published by Aprilsnow Press is thus interpreted as a live platform for practicing the relationship among these three key features.
For inquiries contact Kay Jun, info.aprilsnow@gmail.com
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Apartment Letters
The book is a collection of apartment letters photographed by book designer Jeong Jaewan and design writer Kay Jun. The book provides a fresh and interesting glimpse into one of Korea’s unique visual cultures.
Publisher: Aprilsnow Press
Artist(s): Jeong Jaewan, Kay Jun
Contributor(s): Text by Yerin Kang, Yoon Mingoo, Kay Jun; Translated by Im Yuna; Edited by Kay Jun; Designed by Jeong Jaewan; Printed and bound by INTIME
Publication Date: 2016
Binding: Swiss Binding
Dimensions: 130(w) x 210(h) x 15(d) mm
Pages: 160
ISBN: 978-89-969373-5-7 (03660)
Price: $18.90
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About Author(s)
Kay Jun is a design writer, lecturer, and publisher of Aprilsnow Press; based in Daegu, Korea.
Kay Jun's main interest and research area include the history of modern Korean graphic design and the interaction among text, image (photography), and graphic design. Since 2012, she has been running a small-scale independent photobook publisher Aprilsnow Press with book designer Jeong Jaewan, where she has the role of the sole planner and editor. Fifteen titles have been planned and published so far and Photobook Design by Chung Byoungkyoo and Ways of Working by Richard Hollis and Stuart Bailey are under way for release at the end of 2020. Jun is the author of several books including World’s Art Directors 10 (2009), World’s Book Designers 10 (2016; co-authored by Jeong Jaewan).
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Jeong Jaewan is a book designer, professor at the Department of Visual Communication at Yeungnam University; based in Daegu, Korea.
Jeong has been practicing as a book designer for more than 15 years. He started his career as a book designer at Chung Design—Korea’s first editorial design studio, which was founded in 1984. He then moved to Minumsa Publishing Group, and worked for its imprint Sciencebooks where his bold and simple typography for book design attracted attention. Currently, he is working as a freelance book designer, and teaches at the Department of Visual Communication of Yeungnam University. Since 2013, he has been the sole designer responsible for photobooks published by Aprilsnow Press. He is the author of Apartment Letters (2017) and World’s Book Designers 10 (2016; co-authored by Kay Jun).
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John Gall Collages 2008-2018
For the past 25 years, graphic designer John Gall has designed award-winning books and covers for the likes of Dave Eggers, Haruki Murakami, and Vladimir Nabokov. John Gall Collages 2008-2018 is a collection of personal and commissioned artwork by the designer. The collage work—which began as a personal pursuit to expand his way of visual thinking—soon became its own form of artistic expression. Through a popular Instagram account and a Tumblr, the work has gained legions of fans around the world. This book, the first to document this work, is an intimate look at Gall’s personal artistic explorations as well as a visual dialogue with the world we now live in. With a foreword by New York Times Book Review Art Director Matt Dorfman, this book also includes five years’ of Gall’s illustrations for the Times.
Publisher: Aprilsnow Press
Artist(s): John Gall
Contributor(s): Foreword by Matt Dorfman; Edited by Kay Jun; Book Cover Designed by John Gall; Book Designed by Jeong Jaewan; Printed and bound by Munsung Printing
Publication Date: 2018
Binding: Hardcover
Dimensions: 182(w) x 257(h) x 18(d) mm
Pages: 192
ISBN: 978-89-969373-9-5 (03600)
Price: $47
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About Author(s)
John Gall is a designer, artist, author, editor, and teacher. He is currently the Creative Director for Abrams Books. His design and illustration work for Vintage Books, Alfred A Knopf, The Criterion Collection, and The New York Times has been recognized by the AIGA, Art Directors Club, Print, Graphis, and American Illustration. Known for his design work for such authors as Haruki Murakami and Vladimir Nabokov, he is also an internationally exhibited artist and is featured in the books By Its Cover: Modern American Book Cover Design, Graphic: Inside the Sketchbooks of the World's Great Graphic Designers, and The Age of Collage: Contemporary Collage in Modern Art.
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Matt Dorfman is the Art Director of the New York Times Book Review.
Location
Location is photographer Choi Yongjoon’s first photobook documenting East Asian cities such as Tokyo and Seoul. Geometrically well designed, his photographs are a vivid reinterpretation of high-density cities in Asia. Hashtagging and index curation by architects Lim Jeeseon and Jun Hyunbai add another ‘flavor’ to the photographs. A number of snapshots collected by Choi while locating ‘photogenic’ places on a 3D Map are also included in the book.
Publisher: Aprilsnow Press
Artist(s): Choi Yongjoon
Contributor(s): Review by Kim Jihoon; Hashtagging and Index Curation by Lim Jeeseon and Jun Hyunbai; Edited by Kay Jun; Designed by Jeong Jaewan; Printed by Munsung Printing
Publication Date: 2019
Binding: Sewn Otabind
Dimensions: 170(w) x 240(h) x 10(d) mm
Pages: 112
ISBN: 979-11-89478-02-5 (03660)
Price: $33
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About Author(s)
Choi Yongjoon is a photographer based in Seoul, Korea.
Interested in topography, landmarks and urbanscape, Choi explores new perspectives on modern East Asian cities through photography. Recently, he uses tools such as Google Earth and 3D Maps to locate places; these places are then transferred to photography. Choi has taken part in exhibitions such as The Scrap and Poster Only, and collaborated with various magazines and designers.
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To Bury the Dog Properly
To Bury the Dog Properly is a compilation of two photo series, Light Volume (2015–2019) and Sight-Lag (2017–2019).
The series Light Volume is composed of photos Minji Yi had seen and unseen before and after the death of her grandmother. As it neared the end, Yi contemplates her grandmother’s life, as a Korean War refugee, laborer, and deacon who had to move constantly. Photography is believed to be a medium that records an object or scene in the most truthful way, but there is always the gray zone that photography misses. Minji Yi explores this liminal space through Light Volume, which is also her way of honoring the memory of her grandmother’s life.
The second series that makes up To Bury the Dog Properly is Sight-Lag, a bolder and more experimental approach to photography from Minji. In the aftermath of her grandmother’s death, Yi flew over to Iceland, a place she thought would be a contrasting distance from her grandmother’s place in the world. The landscape she saw in Iceland did not match what she saw on Google Earth. Through a conceptual investigation of the white landscape, Minji interprets the function of photography today.
Publisher: Aprilsnow Press
Artist(s): Minji Yi
Contributor(s): Text by Minji Yi; Translated by Jiwon Yu; Edited by Kay Jun; Designed by Jeong Jaewan; Printed and bound by Munsung Printing
Publication Date: 2019
Binding: PUR
Dimensions: 220(w) x 300(h) x 8(d) mm
Pages: 144
ISBN: 979-11-89478-04-9 (03660)
Price: $36
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About Author(s)
Minji Yi takes photos of things seen and unseen. Considering the difference between things she has seen and unseen (the so-called ‘sight-lag’), she occasionally writes text to accompany her photographs. Yi had her first solo exhibition Sight-Lag in 2018 at Hapjungjigu, Seoul and took part in various group shows such as Live Forever (Hite Collection, Seoul, 2019), Walking, Jumping, Speaking, Writing (SeMA Storage, Seoul Photo Festival, Seoul, 2018), The Scrap (Seoul, 2018, 2016) and Archive: International Singapore Photo Festival (DECK, 2016). Minji Yi self-published side_B (2015), Light Volume (2016) and Sight-Lag (2017).