김현지/ 김살구/ 핸D
Handi Kim
Very Handy - Handi's name transition
Hoya Lee wanted to make her daughters name Salgu (apricot) as she could only eat apricot while she was pregnant. However, it was common for a man to name the baby, so eventually she was named by her father's older brother. He named her Hyunji (live smartly/cleverly)!
Hyunji became HyunD when she was a high school girl. The reason? She was too lazy to spell out her whole name. Sooner or later, her friends started to call her '핸디' (Handi) with no specific reason. And people around her also started to call her as Handi. After moving to the Netherlands, she chose by herself to keep 'Handi' as her designer name.
I am from South Korea
Currently based in the Hague, Netherland.
Education
2017 -
Graphic Design at Royal Academy of Art, the Hague(KABK), Netherland
2014-2016
Ceramic Craft at Kookmin University, Seoul, South Korea
Participation
Digi.gxl (Int) | Fflaghigh! FDSC summer workshop (KR) | Bergen Art Book Fair (NO)
| Bergen Art Book Fair mini talk (NO) | The Seoul illustration fair (KR)
| Exhibition Royal Cult Club in KABK gallery(NL) | Exhibition Untopian Cultural Herritage
in the Grey Space (NL) | Exhibition Gaps, Margins & Fillers
in KABK Gallery (NL)
Commission
Illustration for Polyesterzine (UK) |
Exhibition Identity design
for Ssangssangstudy (KR)
Work/Internship
2014-2016
Chief Assistant of designer ‘Yomsnil’ (KR)
Features
Itsnicethat(2020)
Polyesterzine(2017)