ABOUT__WANG ZHIHONG was born in Taipei in 1975. 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 TADANORI YOKOO, SHINRO OHTAKE, NOBUYOSHI ARAKI, TAKUMA NAKAHIRA, and COMME des GARÇONS. Among his recognitions are D&AD Awards (Wood Pencil), ADC Awards (Silver Cube), TDC Awards, TOKYO TDC Awards (Prize Nominee Work), and many other awards. He is also the author of DESIGN BY WANGZHIHONG.COM: A SELECTION OF BOOK DESIGNS, 2001–2016. ︎

ART DIRECTOR, DESIGNER__WANG ZHIHONG, HSU YUWEN
STUDIO__2F., No. 5, Aly. 3, Ln. 359, Fujin St., Songshan Dist., Taipei 105-010, Taiwan

SERVICES__Visual Identity, Art Direction, Book Design, Signage, Packaging & more.
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AWARDS__2005–2023
D&AD Awards, Wood Pencil, 2023, London, UK
ADC Awards, Merit, 2023, New York, US
TOKYO TDC, Prize Nominee Works, 2023, Tokyo, JP
Golden Butterfly Awards, Silver, 2023, Taipei, TW
TOKYO TDC Awards, Excellent Works, 2022, Tokyo, JP
ADC Awards, Silver Cube, 2021, New York, US
TDC Awards, Certificate of Typographic Excellence, 2021, New York, US
International Poster Triennial Toyama, Shortlist, 2021, Toyama, JP
TOKYO TDC Awards, Excellent Works (x2), 2021, Tokyo, JP
TOKYO TDC Awards, Excellent Works (x3), 2020, Tokyo, JP
TOKYO TDC Awards, Prize Nominee Works / Excellent Works (x2), 2019, Tokyo, JP
TOKYO TDC Awards, Prize Nominee Work / Excellent Works, 2018, Tokyo, JP
TOKYO TDC Awards, Excellent Works (x3), 2017, Tokyo, JP
TOKYO TDC Awards, Excellent Works, 2014, Tokyo, JP
PAJU BOOK Awards, Best Design, 2014, Paju, KR
TOKYO TDC Awards, Excellent Works (x2), 2013, Tokyo, JP
TOKYO TDC Awards, Excellent Works (x2), 2012, Tokyo, JP
Golden Butterfly Awards, Gold / Silver, 2012, Taipei, TW
TOKYO TDC Awards, Excellent Works, 2009, Tokyo, JP
HKDA Awards, Kaoru Kasai’s Choice / Silver (x2) / Bronze (x3), 2009, Hong Kong, CN
Golden Butterfly Awards, Gold, 2009, Taipei, TW
Golden Butterfly Awards, Gold (x2), 2008, Taipei, TW
Golden Butterfly Awards, Gold (x2), 2005, Taipei, TW

JUDGE__
D&AD Awards, Typography, 2022, London, UK


MEMBER__
Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI), 2015–, Zürich, CH


GROUP EXHIBITIONS__2011–2023
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
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
PRESS__2014–2022
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
De Monsterkamer: Wang Zhihong on paper, 2021, Amsterdam, NL︎
It’s Nice That: A Book on Books looks into the past, present and future of book design and publishing, 2020, London, UK
It’s Nice That: Wang Zhi-Hong on his shifting approach of “hiding information” in graphic design, 2019, London, UK
It’s Nice That: Wang Zhi-Hong’s work aims to highlight the “importance of text in Chinese graphic design”, 2017, London, UK
It’s Nice That: Taiwanese graphic designer Wang Zhi-Hong’s sublime cover designs, 2016, London, UK
It’s Nice That: Wang Zhi-Hong’s thoughtfully designed book about Dutch modernism, 2016, London, UK
It’s Nice That: Restraint and solitude - the wonderful pared-back work of Wang Zhi-Hong, 2014, London, UK

PUBLICATIONS__2009–2024
TYPEONE Magazine Issue #8: The Japanese Graphic Design x Typography Issue, TYPE01 Ltd., 2024, Surrey, UK
Modes and Characters: Poetics of Graphic Design, Graphic-sha, 2023, Tokyo, JP
Slanted Magazine No.42 Books, Slanted Publishers UG, 2023, Karlsruhe, DE
Graphic Languages: A Visual Guide to the World’s Writing Systems, Oliver Häusle, 2023, DE
TOKYO TDC Vol.34 The Best in International Typography & Design, DNP Art Communications, 2023, Tokyo, JP
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
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
takeopaper.com: Golden Pin Design Award Yearbook 2018, 2020, Tokyo, JP
A Book on Books: New Aesthetics in Book Design, Victionary, 2020, Hong Kong, CN
Palette Mini Series 1: Black & White, Victionary, 2020, Hong Kong, CN
takeopaper.com: The Catcher in the Rye, 2019, Tokyo, JP
TOKYO TDC Vol.30 The Best in International Typography & Design, DNP Art Communications, 2019, Tokyo, JP
takeopaper.com: Frankenstein, 2019, Tokyo, JP
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
IDEA Magazine No.376, Graphic designers and exhibitions, Seibundo Shinkosha, 2017, Tokyo, JP
takeopaper.com: On Food and Cooking, 2017, Tokyo, JP
Typeroom: Wang Zhi-Hong roams the path of typographic wisdom with grace, 2016, Athens, GR
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
T5: Taiwan Book Design Forefront, Tokyo University of the Arts, 2015, Tokyo, JP
Design 360° Magazine No.55, Designer’s Phtotgraphy, Sandu, 2015, Guangzhou, CN
Asian Creatives: 150 Most Promising Talents in Art, Design, Illustration and Photography, Ubies, 2014, Tokyo, JP
Design 360° Magazine No.49, Designer’s Archive, Sandu, 2014, Guangzhou, CN
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__2008–2023
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, TW
Source 27: The Work of Making Fonts, Osamu Torinoumi, Faces Publications, 2020, Taipei, TW
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 Importance of What Happens Before Ideas are Born, 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 and 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, Edited by Pen Magazine, 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 and 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