Sun Young Oh is an independent Christian designer from South Korea.

She specializes in type and visual materials, which encompass fluid media without a physical format. Her focus lies on branches derived from letter(form)s and the narratives they create in various contexts. She obtained a diploma in graphic design from HfG Karlsruhe in Germany. With a background in fine art and graphic design, she merges these disciplines to explore the dynamic interplay between them.

Services: Retail Typefaces, Bespoke Typefaces, Custom Typefaces, Letterings, Logotypes and Typographic Experiments.

Open for commissions and collaborations.
Please contact me via email, including project scope, description, deadline/time period, and budget.

Currently in timezone GMT+9.

2024/Feb/09
Feature

My work is featured on It’s Nice That— “Designer Sun Young Oh focuses on words, through fonts or cat flow charts”

2024/Jan/31
Feature

Flefixx project is featured in ‘The Index’ newsletter of It’s Nice That, referenced under the section ‘Flow charts and Diagrams’ on ‘Five Micro Trends.’

2023/Oct/06
Talk

Talk at Inscript Type Festival (online)
04 – 08. October 2023
Inscript exists at the overlap of cutting-edge technologies and experimental thinking that dictate our emergent realities. Focusing on design, language, and communication, Inscript explores boundaries and provides a space for sharing, learning, and brazen experimentation.

“Visual Narratives: Typing Letters and Connecting Words”
What if a typeface itself could tell stories? I would like to share the approach and process of a new way of storytelling through the “Flefixx” project—an idiosyncratic visual language and typeface system that explores typography as a medium for storytelling. It’s not about etymology; rather, it’s a way to find and create images in the common combinations of letters that make up words. It allows to connect unrelated words into a sequence of narratives.

2023/Sep/25
Talk

Online Talk for the Workshop “A Cabbage, A Wolf and A Sheep” by Gruppo Due at HfG Offenbach.

2023/Jul/13
Feature

Interview for Readymag about Anthony regarding the exhibition at Poster House.
“They shape the global visual landscape: Exploring the impact of up-and-coming female type designers”

2023/Jun/15
Feature

Interview as part of the exhibition at Poster House for the Art and Design Magazine in China, issue 281.
“Type Poster is a Design Ritual”

2023/Apr/27
Exhibition

Anthony specimen poster is on display as part of the “Advertising Type: Women in Digital Design” exhibition at Poster House in NYC.
From April 27th to November 5th, 2023.
The exhibition is organized by TDC x Type01 x Poster House.

2022/Aug/03
Feature

Designed two different versions of the letter “R” for the Research & Realities section of DAMN Magazine No.82, titled “Radical Domesticity.”

2021/Feb/12
Feature

Flefixx Website is featured on hoverstat.es

2019/Sep/25
Opencall

Designed the Academic Year Planner 2019-20 for Creative Lives In Progress.