"Typographic Exploration In Hangul" By Designers Hyunju Lee & Phil Choo

"Typographic Exploration In Hangul" is an exhibition taking place in the Design Museum in Walker Hall at the University of California Davis that features typographical works of Korean designers Hyunju Lee and Phil Choo. The exhibition features pieces of typography in Hangul, the adopted script of North and South Korea.
Having recently read Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics, I viewed the gallery as a series of pictures telling a narrative and conveying action, emotion and history. I viewed the gallery as a comic. The stark white back-drop on some walls accompanied with the predominately square and rectangular pieces must have triggered this perception. The space between pieces became "gutters, the space between comic frames, leaving the mind free to create its own closure in discerning what happens between images and why they have happened. Some pieces were purposefully paired creating a moment-to-moment representation and before long it was on to the next piece which created a scene-to-scene experience. Viewing the entire gallery in sequence created some non-sequitur "frames", except for the fact that all the pieces revolved around the characters of a language that strung them together as much as any language has strung together the differences, commonalities, and heritage of any culture.
The sequence of all the images immerse you in another world, that of the Hangul script. Without knowledge of the language or the first clue of how to pronounce any characters, I could still feel and understand each piece as they created moments of joy as well as somber, quiet reflections and moments of uncontainable energy. It brought the characters of the language to life and they became more than symbols of sounds and ideas. They became symbols of the universal language of emotion conveyed by design.