info — WANGZHIHONG CO.

Founder
Design Director
Wang Zhihong

Art Director
Business Manager
Hsu Yuwen

Fujin St.
Songshan Dist.
Taipei, Taiwan

“Wang Zhihong crafts a brand new design style that blends classicism and modernism by pursuing every possibility of typography. Whether we look at the way in which Wang references history and culture or his focus on technical details, he has proved particularly adept at both, as evidenced by his array of impressive book covers. Wang has used Asian perception to drive his deconstruction of modern typography, with his inspiration and ideas containing their own power to perhaps facilitate new movement and exchange in the world of Chinese characters.” MUROGA KIYONORI, Former editor-in-chief of IDEA magazine, Tokyo, Japan

A graphic designer and a member of AGI. He is committed to incorporating typography into his design projects across the cultural and commercial sectors. He launched his publishing imprints with major publishers, featuring translated books by internationally renowned artists and on their works, including Dieter Rams, Nobuyoshi Araki, Tadanori Yokoo, Takuma Nakahira, and COMME des GARÇONS. Among his recognitions are D&AD Awards, ADC Awards, TDC Awards, TOKYO TDC Annual Awards, and many other awards.

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AWARDS

D&AD Awards, Wood Pencil ^{x 1}, 2023, London, UK︎
ADC Awards, Silver Cube ^{x 1}, Merit ^{x 1}, 2021-2023, New York, US︎
TOKYO TDC Annual Awards, Prize Nominee Work ^{x 3}, Excellent Works^{x 16}, 2009-2023, Tokyo, JP
TDC Awards, Winner – Certificate of Typographic Excellence ^{x 1}, 2021, New York, US ︎
International Poster Triennial Toyama, Shortlist ^{x 1}, 2021, Toyama, JP
PAJU Book Award, Book Design Award, 2014, Paju, KR
HKDA Asia Design Awards, Kaoru Kasai’s Choice Award, Silver Award ^{x 2}, Bronze Award ^{x 2}, 2009, Hong Kong, CN
Golden Butterfly Award, Golden Award ^{x 6}, Silver Award ^{x 2}, Bronze Award^{x 3}, 2005-2022, Taipei, TW

MEMBER

Alliance Graphique Internationale, 2015-, Zürich, CH ︎

JUDGE

D&AD Awards, Typography, 2022, London, UK
Latin American Design Awards, Editorial Design, 2021, Lima, PE
Top Awards, Packaging Design, 2017, Tokyo, JP

BOOK

Design by wangzhihong.com: A Selection of Book Designs, 2001-2016, Faces Publications, 2016, Taipei, TW ︎

EXHIBITIONS

Modes and Characters (もじイメージ Graphic), 21_21 Design Sight, 2023, Tokyo , JP︎
TOKYO TDC in Hangzhou, 2023, Hangzhou, CN
The Palace of Typographic Masonry, Grote Kerk, 2023, Breda, NL
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
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
TDC 2018, Ginza Graphic Gallery, 2018, Tokyo, JP
Flags of Peace, A Lab, 2018, Amsterdam, NL
21X21 Cake Design Exhibition, 751D·PARK / Power Station of Art, 2016, Beijing / Shanghai, CN
Monotype 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
Ingenuity Follows Nature, Songshan Creative & Cultural Park, 2011, Taipei, TW

PRESS AND PUBLICATIONS

Slanted Magazine No.42 Books, Slanted Publishers UG, 2023, Karlsruhe, DE ︎
TOKYO TDC Vol.34 The Best in International Typography & Design, DNP Art Communications, 2023, Tokyo, JP
It’s Nice That: Five designers and studios creating beautiful book covers, 2022, London, UK ︎
It’s Nice That: Wang Zhi-Hong highlights the importance of typography in his considered book designs, 2022, London, UK ︎
Hanzi • Kanji • Hanja 2: Graphic Design with Contemporary Chinese Typography, Victionary, 2022, Hong Kong, CN
Palette Mini Series 0: Nude, Victionary, 2022, Hong Kong, CN
Typomania Moscow International Festival Catalog, 2021, Moscow, RU ︎
De Monsterkamer: Wang Zhihong on paper, 2021, Amsterdam, NL ︎
How Design Makes Us Think: And Feel and Do Things, Princeton Architectural Press, 2021, New York, US︎
Palette Mini Series 5: Pastel, Victionary, 2021, Hong Kong, CN
A Book on Books: New Aesthetics in Book Design, Victionary, 2020, Hong Kong, CN
It’s Nice That: A Book on Books looks into the past, present and future of book design and publishing, 2020, London, UK
Palette Mini Series 1: Black & White, Victionary, 2020, Hong Kong, CN
TOKYO TDC Vol.30 The Best in International Typography & Design, DNP Art Communications, 2019, Tokyo, JP
It’s Nice That: Wang Zhi-Hong on his shifting approach of “hiding information” in graphic design, 2019, London, UK
Bi-Scriptual: Typography and Graphic Design With Multiple Script Systems, Niggli, 2018, Salenstein, CH
IDEA Magazine No.380, Recent Works of Tadanori Yokoo Since 2010, Seibundo Shinkosha, 2018, Tokyo, JP ︎
AGI New Members 2007-2017, Hesign, 2018, Berlin, DE
TOKYO TDC Vol.29 The Best in International Typography & Design, DNP Art Communications, 2018, Tokyo, JP
It’s Nice That: Wang Zhi-Hong’s work aims to highlight the “importance of text in Chinese graphic design”, 2017, London, UK
Typeroom: Wang Zhi-Hong roams the path of typographic wisdom with grace, 2016, Athens, GR
It’s Nice That: Taiwanese graphic designer Wang Zhi-Hong’s sublime cover designs, 2016, London, UK
IDEA Magazine No.375, Phenomenology of Koichi Sato, Seibundo Shinkosha, 2016, Tokyo, JP ︎
Ligature: Wang Zhi-Hong — Interview, 2016, Zurich, CH
Design Drawer No.28, Graphic-sha Publishing, 2016, Tokyo, JP
Design 360° Magazine No.62, Designer’s Home, Sandu, 2016, Guangzhou, CN
It’s Nice That: Wang Zhi-Hong’s thoughtfully designed book about Dutch modernism, 2016, London, UK
T5: Taiwan Book Design Forefront, Tokyo University of the Arts, 2015, Tokyo, JP
Tricky Taipei: Wang Zhi Hong, Taiwan’s Award-Winning Book Designer, 2015, Taipei, TW
Design 360° Magazine No.55, Designer’s Phtotgraphy, Sandu, 2015, Guangzhou, CN
It’s Nice That: Restraint and solitude - the wonderful pared-back work of Wang Zhi-Hong, 2014, London, UK
Design 360° Magazine No.49, Designer’s Archive, Sandu, 2014, Guangzhou, CN
Asian Creatives: 150 Most Promising Talents in Art, Design, Illustration and Photography, Ubies, 2014, Tokyo, JP
Fully Booked: Ink on Paper – Design & Concepts for New Publications, Gestalten Publishers, 2013, Berlin, DE
Desktop Magazine #294, Trade Routes, 2013, Canberra, AU
Bracket Vol. 05, Hustle, Anonymous, 2012, SG
Typojanchi: International Typography Biennale, Korea Craft & Design Foundation, 2011, KR
Typographics ti: Magazine No. 266 Type Trip to Taipei, Japan Typography Association, 2011, Tokyo, JP
Book Worm, Hesign, 2010, Berlin, DE
Small Studios, PageOne & Hesign Berlin, 2009, SG

CURATOR

Source 34: Dieter Rams: The Complete Works, Klaus Klemp, Faces Publications, 2023, Taipei, TW
Source 33: Dynamite Graffiti, Akira Suei, Faces Publications, 2023, Taipei, TW︎
Source 32: My Back Page, and the Memory of Youth Japanese Graphic Culture: 1960-1980, Shinbo Minami, Faces Publications, 2022, Taipei, TW︎
Source 31: Koreeda Hirokazu’s Voyage with Kiki Kirin, Hirokazu Koreeda, Faces Publications, 2021, Taipei, TW ︎
Source 30: Plastic Thinking, Taku Satoh, Faces Publications, 2021, Taipei, TW ︎
Source 29: Creative Selection: Inside Apple’s Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs, Ken Kocienda, Faces Publications, 2021, Taipei, TW
Source 28: When Marina Abramovic Dies, James Westcott, Faces Publications, 2020, Taipei, Taiwan
Source 27: The Work of Making Fonts, Osamu Torinoumi, Faces Publications, 2020, Taipei, Taiwan
Source 26: Sphere Photo Dualism: My Philosophy of Photography, Eikoh Hosoe, Faces Publications, 2020, Taipei, TW ︎
Source 25: Frank to Tell You: My Perspectives on Photography, Eikoh Hosoe, Faces Publications, 2020, Taipei, TW ︎
Source 24: Let’s do Anything: My History of Photography, Eikoh Hosoe, Faces Publications, 2020, Taipei, TW ︎
Source 23: The Thirteen People Who Build the Graphic Culture of Contemporary Japan, Edited by IDEA Magazine, Faces Publications, 2019, Taipei, TW
Source 22: The Man Who Changed Japan’s Lifestyle, Kaitaro Tsuno, Faces Publications, 2019, Taipei, TW
Source 21: Typo Sampo in Taiwan, Kentaro Fujimoto, Faces Publications, 2019, Taipei, TW
Source 20: Memory of Vermilion: The Autobiography of Yusaku Kamekura, Makoto Baba, Faces Publications, 2018, Taipei, TW
Source 19: The Most Important Thing Before Creative Thinking, Morimoto Chie, Faces Publications, 2018, Taipei, TW
Source 18: Chroma: A Book of Colour, Derek Jarman, Faces Publications, 2018, Taipei, TW
Source 17: What I Thought While Shooting Films, Hirokazu Koreeda, Faces Publications, 2017, Taipei, TW
Source 16: Why an Illustrated Botanical Dictionary?, Takuma Nakahira, Faces Publications, 2017, Taipei, TW
Source 15: Design by wangzhihong.com: A Selection of Book Designs, 2001-2016, Wang Zhi-Hong, Faces Publications, 2016, Taipei, TW ︎
Source 14: My Hand-Drawn Characters, Kouga Hirano, Faces Publications, 2016, Taipei, TW
Source 13: Invisible Sound / Unheard Picture, Shinro Ohtake, Faces Publications, 2016, Taipei, TW
Source 12: Tokyo Drift, Shinya Fujiwara, Faces Publications, 2015, Taipei, TW
Source 11: A Clear Dream: Visual Identity, Design Agencies and Modernism in The Netherlands 1960-1975, Wibo Bakker, Faces Publications, 2015, Taipei, TW
Source 10: Memories of a Back, Yurie Nagashima, Faces Publications, 2014, Taipei, TW
Source 9: Making Clothes, Yohji Yamamoto, Faces Publications, 2014, Taipei, TW ︎
Source 8: Fifty Years of Photo Albums in Japan, Akiko Otake, Faces Publications, 2014, Taipei, TW
Insight 7: The World as Design, Otl Aicher, Ecus Publishing House, 2014, Taipei, TW
Source 7: 1972 Young Battleship Island, Hiroshi Ohashi, Faces Publications, 2013, Taipei, TW
Source 6: The Study of COMME des GARÇONS, Minamitani Eriko, Faces Publications, 2013, Taipei, TW
Source 5: Duel on Photography, Kishin Shinoyama and Takuma Nakahira, Faces Publications, 2013, Taipei, TW
Source 4: The Way of Kashiwa Sato, Yukichchi Amano & Kashiwa Sato, Faces Publications, 2013, Taipei, TW
Source 3: The Life Aquatic!!: The Autobiography of Tadanori Yokoo, Tadanori Yokoo, Faces Publications, 2013, Taipei, TW
Source 2: We Love Yayoi Kusama, Yayoi Kusama, Faces Publications, 2012, Taipei, TW
Source 1: The Whale was Blowing., Taku Satoh, Faces Publications, 2012, Taipei, TW
Insight 6: White, Kenya Hara, Ecus Publishing House, 2012, Taipei, TW
Insight 5: Infinity Net: The Autobiography of Yayoi Kusama, Yayoi Kusama, Ecus Publishing House, 2011, Taipei, TW ︎
Insight 4: Herman Miller Stories, Riki Watanabe, Ecus Publishing House, 2010, Taipei, TW
Insight 3: Dialogue in Design, Kenya Hara & Ave Masayo, Ecus Publishing House, 2009, Taipei, TW
Insight 2: My Words on Photography, Nobuyoshi Araki, Ecus Publishing House, 2009, Taipei, TW
Insight 1: Kashiwa Sato’s Ultimate Method for Reaching the Essentials, Kashiwa Sato, Ecus Publishing House, 2008, Taipei, TW