Polish Design in Eastern Asia 2025
the DESIGN
NETWORK
Tokyo
Seoul
Taipei
The goal of TDN is to connect and integrate design communities from Asia and Europe.
In 2025, TDN will host a series of conferences, seminars, exhibitions, installations, lectures, discussions, and meetings in Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei.
These activities are part of the EuroAsiaDesign programme to promote Polish design in Asia.
Agenda and Venues
Tokyo
Zine Festival Tokyo 2025
Festival
Workshops, an exhibition, and art prints will be created by independent publishers: Mulu Office, Oficyna Peryferie, Togu Riso Press, Puresu de Tokyo, and Hand Saw Press.
Workshops, an exhibition, and art prints will be created by independent publishers: Mulu Office, Oficyna Peryferie, Togu Riso Press, Puresu de Tokyo, and Hand Saw Press.
Experimental workshops and a design lab will be part of Zine Festival Summer 2025
The program will feature: Michał Chojecki, Liu Chao-Tze, Zhou Junsheng, Daniel Gutowski, Marta Tomiak, Hikaru Takata.
Seoul
Taste against Taste - POSTER REX
Exhibition
Poster Rex Seoul for a screen printing session and exhibition driven by collaboration and cultural exchange
Taste Against Taste is not about flavor alone. It’s about cultures colliding, blending, and shifting. In Korean, taste goes beyond sweet, bitter, or spicy—it can describe a person, a mood, even a moment. The exhibition uses this expanded sense of taste as a lens to explore identity, feeling, and expression.
Lars Harmsen, Kuki Iwański, Hezin O, Lee Sanha, Jung Sung-hun, Martyna Wędzicka-Obuchowicz, Lee Yunho.
TAIPEI
Support Independent Type - A New Culture of Type Specimens
Exhibition
An exhibition showcasing the independent type design scene in Europe.
The display features promotional prints, small-run publications, and experimental works that champion independent typography. It marks the first large-scale presentation in Taiwan of original, printed materials dedicated to letterforms, retail + custom fonts and independent typography.
The exhibition includes works by renowned type designers and studios such as ABC Dinamo, Swiss Typefaces, UMPRUM Type Design Studio, Production Type, and many others.
Taipei
Brutalism in Typography: A No-Compromise Approach to Type Design
Lecture
This talk explores a world of bold, raw, and monumental forms—both in letters and buildings. It examines how form, scale, and style link brutalist architecture with expressive typography. The session will reimagine architectural structures as typographic expressions, encouraging designers to explore new, experimental directions.
Marian Misiak
Seoul
lectures at Hongik University
Lectures
A short lecture series exploring Polish design through the lens of locality, globality, and glocal perspectives in contemporary design.
Lars Harmsen, Kuki Iwański (Poland), Martyna Wędzicka-Obuchowicz
Taipei
Size Matters: Crafting Big, Provocative and Brutal Letterforms
Workshops
A hands-on workshop exploring scale, expression, and power in typography. Participants will experiment with various tools and methods—from testing the limits of letter enlargement and legibility to constructing bold, oversized letterforms. This session is all about pushing typographic boundaries—mental, material, and digital.
Marian Misiak
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