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Art Direction
Visual Identity
Campaign
Signage
Packaging
Book Design
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Fujin Street
Songshan District
Taipei City
Art Direction
Visual Identity
Campaign
Signage
Packaging
Book Design
STUDIO LOCATION__
Fujin Street
Songshan District
Taipei City
WANGZHIHONG CO. is the Taipei-based independent design studio founded in 1997 by Wang Zhihong and Hsu Yuwen. The studio’s practice spans both cultural and commercial sectors, creating visual identities, book designs, and branding for clients across the fields of art, architecture, and photography. In addition to its local clientele, the studio works with clients in Japan, the United Kingdom, China, and Hong Kong. As the studio’s co-founder and art director, Wang Zhihong has been renowned since 2000 for his pioneering approach to integrating typography into graphic design, significantly influencing the development of contemporary book design in the Chinese-speaking world. Through the publishing imprints INSIGHT *1 and SOURCE *2, he pioneered the publication in Taiwan of the works of Tadanori Yokoo, Takuma Nakahira, Nobuyoshi Araki, and Rei Kawakubo (COMME des GARÇONS), making their works systematically available to Taiwanese readers for the first time and significantly enriching the local creative discourse.
His work has received international recognition, including a D&AD Wood Pencil, an ADC Silver Cube, and selections in the TDC Annual and the Tokyo TDC Prize Nominee Works. He has been a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI) since 2015. In 2016, he published the monograph DESIGN BY WANGZHIHONG.COM: A Selection of Book Designs, 2001–2016︎. In 2022, he served as a jury member for the Typography category of the UK's D&AD Awards. The following year, his work was featured in the exhibition Modes and Characters: Poetics of Graphic Design︎, curated by 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT in Tokyo.
NOTE *1*2: The publishing imprints INSIGHT and SOURCE have introduced works by the following individuals to Taiwan: Akira Suei, Derek Jarman, Dieter Rams, Eikoh Hosoe, Hirokazu Koreeda, Kashiwa Sato, Kenya Hara, Kishin Shinoyama, Kouga Hirano, Nobuyoshi Araki, Osamu Torinoumi, Otl Aicher, Rei Kawakubo, Shinbo Minami, Shinya Fujiwara, Shinro Ohtake, Tadanori Yokoo, Taku Satoh, Takuma Nakahira, Yasuji Hanamori, Yayoi Kusama, Yohji Yamamoto, Yurie Nagashima, Yusaku Kamekura, among others. (listed alphabetically)
AWARDS__
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS__
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS__
© 1997–2026 WANGZHIHONG CO. All content is protected by copyright law. This material is provided solely for personal, on-site viewing. Any reproduction, downloading, public distribution, or commercial use without prior permission is prohibited.
His work has received international recognition, including a D&AD Wood Pencil, an ADC Silver Cube, and selections in the TDC Annual and the Tokyo TDC Prize Nominee Works. He has been a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI) since 2015. In 2016, he published the monograph DESIGN BY WANGZHIHONG.COM: A Selection of Book Designs, 2001–2016︎. In 2022, he served as a jury member for the Typography category of the UK's D&AD Awards. The following year, his work was featured in the exhibition Modes and Characters: Poetics of Graphic Design︎, curated by 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT in Tokyo.
NOTE *1*2: The publishing imprints INSIGHT and SOURCE have introduced works by the following individuals to Taiwan: Akira Suei, Derek Jarman, Dieter Rams, Eikoh Hosoe, Hirokazu Koreeda, Kashiwa Sato, Kenya Hara, Kishin Shinoyama, Kouga Hirano, Nobuyoshi Araki, Osamu Torinoumi, Otl Aicher, Rei Kawakubo, Shinbo Minami, Shinya Fujiwara, Shinro Ohtake, Tadanori Yokoo, Taku Satoh, Takuma Nakahira, Yasuji Hanamori, Yayoi Kusama, Yohji Yamamoto, Yurie Nagashima, Yusaku Kamekura, among others. (listed alphabetically)
AWARDS__
- D&AD: Wood Pencil, London, UK
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ADC: Silver Cube, Merit (x2), New York, US
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TDC: Certificate of Typographic Excellence, New York, US
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Tokyo TDC: Prize Nominee Works (x3), Excellent Works (x20), Tokyo, JP
- Paju Book Awards: Book Design Award, Paju, KR
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HKDA Design Awards: Kaoru Kasai’s Choice, Silver (x2), Bronze (x3), Hong Kong, CN
- Golden Butterfly Awards: Gold (x6), Silver (x2), Taipei, TW
- International Poster Triennial in Toyama: Shortlist, Toyama, JP
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS__
- Main Exhibition of the 29th IPB in Warsaw, Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Czapski Palace, 2025, Warsaw, PL
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Tokyo TDC 2025, Ginza Graphic Gallery, 2025, Tokyo, JP
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Modes and Characters: Poetics of Graphic Design, 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT, 2023, Tokyo, JP
- Tokyo TDC in Hangzhou, 2023, Hangzhou, CN
- The Palace of Typographic Masonry, Grote Kerk, 2023, Breda, NL
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Tokyo TDC 2023, Ginza Graphic Gallery, 2023, Tokyo, JP
- Typomania 2021, Typography Center for Contemporary Art, 2021, Krasnodar, RU
- Spinning East Asia Series I: A Compass in Hand, CHAT Museum, 2021, Hong Kong, CN
- 13th International Poster Triennial Toyama, Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art and Design, 2021, Toyama, JP
- Typomania 2021, Museum of Moscow, 2021, Moscow, RU
- Aranya Poster Festival, Aranya, 2020, Qinhuangdao, CN
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Tokyo TDC 2019, Ginza Graphic Gallery, 2019, Tokyo, JP
- Birmingham Design Festival, Market Hall, 2019, Birmingham, UK
- The Foundertype Poster Exhibition, Lei Shing Hong Art Center, 2019, Beijing, CN
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Tokyo TDC 2018, Ginza Graphic Gallery, 2018, Tokyo, JP
- Flags of Peace, A Lab, 2018, Amsterdam, NLMonotype Type Pro, Not Just Library, 2016, Taipei, TW
- systems 14 - BRAUN Vinyl Archive (A re-imagining), Walter Knoll, 2014, Beijing, CN
- Typojanchi - International Typography Biennale, Seoul Calligraphy Art Museum, 2011, Seoul, KR
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS__
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It’s Nice That: The graphic trends you’ll want to bookmark for 2026, 2026, London, UK
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+81 Magazine Vol.96: The Future of Book Design and Publishing issue, Plus81 Inc., 2025, Tokyo, JP
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The Brand Identity: Wang Zhihong on typography as a precise language for structuring ideas, 2025, Norwich, UK
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Best of Publishing, Fedrigoni, 2025, Verona, IT
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Living Magazine, November Issue, RCS MediaGroup S.p.A, 2025, Milan, IT
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29th International Poster Biennale in Warsaw, Academy of Fine Arts Warsaw, 2025, Warsaw, PL
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TYPEONE Magazine Issue #8: The Japanese Graphic Design x Typography Issue, TYPE01 Ltd., 2024, Surrey, UK
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Modes and Characters: Poetics of Graphic Design, Graphic-sha, 2023, Tokyo, JP
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Slanted Magazine No.42 Books, Slanted Publishers UG, 2023, Karlsruhe, DE
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It’s Nice That: Five designers and studios creating beautiful book covers, 2022, London, UK
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It’s Nice That: Wang Zhihong highlights the importance of typography in his considered book designs, 2022, London, UK
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De Monsterkamer: Wang Zhihong on paper, 2021, Amsterdam, NL
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Typomania Moscow International Festival Catalog, 2021, Moscow, RU
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How Design Makes Us Think: And Feel and Do Things, Princeton Architectural Press, 2021, New York, US
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It’s Nice That: A Book on Books looks into the past, present and future of book design and publishing, 2020, London, UK
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It’s Nice That: Wang Zhihong on his shifting approach of “hiding information” in graphic design, 2019, London, UK
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Bi-Scriptual: Typography and Graphic Design With Multiple Script Systems, Niggli, 2018, Salenstein, CH
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IDEA Magazine No.380, Recent Works of Tadanori Yokoo Since 2010, Seibundo Shinkosha, 2018, Tokyo, JP
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AGI New Members 2007–2017, Hesign, 2018, Berlin, DE
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IDEA Magazine No.376, Graphic designers and exhibitions, Seibundo Shinkosha, 2017, Tokyo, JP
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It’s Nice That: Wang Zhihong’s work aims to highlight the “importance of text in Chinese graphic design”, 2017, London, UK
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It’s Nice That: Wang Zhihong’s thoughtfully designed book about Dutch modernism, 2016, London, UK
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IDEA Magazine No.375, Phenomenology of Koichi Sato, Seibundo Shinkosha, 2016, Tokyo, JP
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It’s Nice That: Taiwanese graphic designer Wang Zhihong’s sublime cover designs, 2016, London, UK
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It’s Nice That: Restraint and solitude - the wonderful pared-back work of Wang Zhihong, 2014, London, UK
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Fully Booked: Ink on Paper – Design & Concepts for New Publications, Gestalten Publishers, 2013, Berlin, DE
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Typojanchi: International Typography Biennale, Korea Craft & Design Foundation, 2011, KR
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Typographics ti: Magazine No. 266 Type Trip to Taipei, Japan Typography Association, 2011, Tokyo, JP
© 1997–2026 WANGZHIHONG CO. All content is protected by copyright law. This material is provided solely for personal, on-site viewing. Any reproduction, downloading, public distribution, or commercial use without prior permission is prohibited.