EunSook Kwon: Viewing Plastic Materials Through the Prism of Korean Design
November 11, 2009 | Levent OZLER
South Korean designer EunSook Kwon has an overarching view of how plastics are perceived as materials, both in Asia and North America, and from the perspective of professional designers and design students alike.
And she has witnessed some dramatic changes in that regard during her varied career.
In addition to consulting for some of the Korea's most innovative manufacturers such as Samsung Electronics and LG, Kwon also taught design in Korea, earned her Ph.D. at Ohio State University, and founded the industrial design program at the University of Houston, where she now serves as a professor and its director.
And a year ago she served as director general of the 21-day Seoul Design Olympiad, which brought more than 2 million people to the South Korean capital in October 2008.
In a video interview at the Industrial Designers Society of America's recent international conference in Miami, Kwon shared her views on how far plastics have come in the eyes of many.
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