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Kim Young Se Presents Acme Taeguk CollectionInspired by the emblem that situates itself in the middle of the South Korean national flag, local industrial designer Kim Young-se takes the simple lines of the 'taeguk' and plays it into a ACME collection that is made up of a set of cuff links, a business card case and pen.
This is the first time ACME, the international product design label behind the making of funky writing tools, stationary, accessories and various other design objects in cooperation with world famous artists, architects and designers, has worked with a designer of Korean nationality.
And starting this season the line inspired by the Taeguk motif will be found in museum shops all around the world along with the collections of Frank Lloyd Wright, Vernor Panton, Andy Warhol, Keith Hering and others.
'The rigid lines of the emblem sport a sense of integrity and the curves, a softness. The taeguk symbol defines South Korea and its peoples all so well,' Kim said when The Korea Times met with him before last Friday's launching party of the much anticipated Taeguk collection.
'My taeguk-inspired pieces show how modern day beauty can be found in something from an age old traditional emblem and how something so local can be reborn as something very global,' he added.
Enabling Koreans to get reacquainted with taeguk and showing the world the bea
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