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2024 Best Book Design in Korea
Nominated to 2025 Best Book Design from all over the World

The Closing Ceremony series is an archive of faded city heritage. This series contains the records from artists' perspectives on a city's heritage in each book.
For the first book, Graphicabulary, the design studio based in Seoul, archived Seoul's monumental hotel into artworks, which disappeared after 40 years of business from 1983 to 2022.

About Hilton Seoul
Hilton Seoul has a modern architectural heritage with great architectural significance. It was the second international chain hotel to open in Korea and greatly influenced the industry. Above all, this hotel contains all the visitors' memories and meanings.
The architecture was designed by Jong Soung Kimm, one of the successors of Mies van der Rohe.
The first edition is a lay-flat paperback with 150 pages. It is offset printed on archival paper with conservation grade, and the cover has bronze-coloured foil stamping.

50 limited edition oil painted by Chansong Kim on the cover of her monograph, Blurry Solid.

Blurry Solid is an artist's monograph of Chansong Kim.
Her artistic world parallels two series, Uncanny Gap and Garden of Mistrust, each containing bodies and gardens. The book contains 169 artworks, including artist notes.

An artist's monograph of Seula Yi, based in Seoul, Korea.
The paintings were shown to the public for the first time in 2016, her exhibition in Tokyo, City People.
This book contains 27 drawings and 65 paintings drawn between New York City and Seoul. You can feel her perspective and attitude towards the busy cities in her works, which range from watercolour to oil painting, pencil drawing, and digital art.