URBAN VISUAL SYSTEMS

This research investigates the visual language of the street in its broadest sense: signage, colour systems, wayfinding, layered paint, territorial marks, material surface accumulation, and the readable visual ecology of urban space. The street is treated as a legible record of economic development, labour culture, and urban change, documented through photography, field observation, mapping, and interview. Research is focused primarily on vernacular and industrial signage across East Asian cities, with particular depth in Korean postwar commercial and manufacturing districts, and extends to communal littering patterns and informal waste systems as indicators of spatial behaviour and urban governance.

Projects and archives:
Korean Signboards Archive, 2019 to present
Hangeul Hype research and documentation project, 2019 to present
Demolition Typographies, 2019 to present
Communal Littering and Waste Pattern documentation, ongoing