Workroom — Seoul, South Korea

"The entry barrier is not high for a new designer to start a career in this country. However, if your goal is to work with like-minded colleagues in a great-looking studio producing deeply satisfying art, you may have to go through a lot of trial and error and frustration before you reach it. It’s the same no matter where you are."

Workroom is a graphic-design studio and publishing house based in Seoul. Founded in December 2006 by four individuals from different creative fields – a photographer, an editor and two graphic designers who shared the same objectives – it has primarily worked on communication design and publishing, at the same time providing different design services for clients from the arts and culture sectors.