Mun is driven by an interest in language—its limitations, its fluidity, and how it shapes design. Not coincidentally, he speaks a few of them. Born in South Korea, he grew up in Jakarta, Indonesia, before moving back to Seoul. After studying in Chicago in 2006, he returned to South Korea to serve his two-year mandatory term in the Korean Army. There, working with U.S. troops under the NSA, he learned yet another language: code. «It was intense,» he says. «I cannot really talk about the details of what I did there.»

Calling three countries home changed Mun. «There was this triple consciousness in what I did and what I wanted to do.» His work is characterized both by alienation and an ability to adapt. A piece called «Cultural Camouflage» layers torn bits of national imagery into digital banners. In another, he created a set of passports that open to reveal treatises on national identity.

via Print Magazine.