Taekyeom Lee's research explores unconventional materials and digital methods to graphic design to create 3D type, graphics, and even designed objects. This research began with two questions: Where does typography belong in the post-digital age? How do we bridge digital and physical experiences? Post-digital typography is engaged with tangible experience assisted and/or created with various digital controls. For the post-digital typography, the cutting-edge digital techniques play a crucial role in turning intangible ideas into tangible design products with physical substance, also combined with augmented reality to build the strong connection between analog and digital realms. In response to this movement, his research actively adapts digital design and various fabrication methods, specifically 3D printing and CAD design. In a broad sense, his research is aiming to develop, test, and find the place of the emerging technologies in the design process and creative practices.
Taekyeom Lee is an educator, maker, and designer using the artist's material and artistic sensibility. He is currently an Assistant professor of Graphic Design at Illinois State University in Normal, IL. He received an MFA degree in Graphic Design from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.