Yeseul Kim (b. Busan) is an information designer, design critic, researcher, lecturer, and writer based in South Korea and the Netherlands. Her work focuses on developing design criticism that centers on the politics of design, information, and technology as underlying forces that shape human development and progress amid ongoing global crises. She explores these themes through critical inquiry, using visual representation and narrative. Recently, she published “The Vessel of Randomness: Three short stories on futurity” (nondesigncritic, 2026).
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Yeseul Kim (b. Busan) is an information designer, design critic, researcher, lecturer, and writer based in South Korea and the Netherlands. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Design from the Korea National University of Arts and a Master of Science in Industrial Design from KAIST. She began her career as an information designer at the Office of the President of South Korea.
Since then, she has expanded her practice across many interdisciplinary projects in the performing arts, creative writing, and artistic research.
One particular project, the performance drawing series, The Extreme Landscape, was presented in several solo and group exhibitions across South Korea and the United States, and was selected as an official art poster for the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics by the International Olympic Committee.
Another foundational experience was the collaborative project, BAR 25: Bio Art and Design Movement (fully funded by the Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture), during which she directed the exhibition Techné Paranoia at Platform-L Contemporary Art Center.
She then completed a master’s degree at the Critical Inquiry Lab at Design Academy Eindhoven, the Netherlands, further expanding her work as a design critic, lecturer, and writer. She has contributed to design education and social initiatives, including the collective projects Moving Shorelines and Floating Worlds: Re-imagining Tomorrow’s Water Climate through the Arts and Sciences with RASL (Rotterdam Arts and Science Lab) and the design educational program Thinking Beyond Papanek—Decolonizing Design Education: What’s on now and next? at Design Museum Den Bosch.
Her recent writings have been featured in the Netherlands in Technology&Desire (Nieuwe Instituut, 2026), TechNOpolitics (Fictional Journal and Baltan Laboratories, 2025), and in South Korea, in Forking Room research lab 2026 and Fem-Tech-Talk. She published “The Vessel of Randomness: Three short stories on futurity” (nondesigncritic, 2026).
Her current work focuses on developing design criticism that centers on the politics of design, information, and technology as underlying forces that shape human development and progress amid ongoing global crises. She continues to explore these themes through critical inquiry, using visual representation and narrative.
