The Gathering 2004| Seoul Book

Client: International Korean Adoptee Associations Life imitates art. I am a Korean Adoptee, when this organization approached me to design the conference booklet, I jumped at the chance. This international organization supports local Korean Adoptee organzations around the world holds an international conference every 3 years. They asked me to design this booklet. Over 200 adotpees from all over the world gather for this week long conference. I brought in a lot of my own wishes and desires into this book and to create a booklet that goes beyond the conference info. The goal of the book had 2 goals: 1.) to education the Korean Adoptee community about our history (I suggested the timeline to show our history) 2.) function as a directory for the attendees: their precious directories has the adoption photo as well as a current photo. Next to the photos is the original Korean name given to the adoptees, the date they were adopted and the organization they were adopted from. These are key information that helps the adoptees start a dialogue, to bond, to find each other who were adopted through the same organizations. The current photo is to help them find each other. -Interesting note: i felt it important to leave "blank" for people who didn't have adoption photos. Not all of us have access to these photos so easily due to family, government and life. 3.) resouce to find each other: Since we came from all over the world (Australia, Denmark, Sweden, Italy, U.S. to name a few) the book was created to find each other. -I organized the "directy of attendees" by country. This functioned in 2 ways. It was easier to remember the country someone came from, you could also see who else from you country was attenting. The other, by seeing how many were from each country it was a fast visual way to understand where a lot of adoptees were adopted into which country. This is improtant for the adoptees to know, for us to understand where we came from and where we ended up. It created a strong starting point to find each other. The book was 112 pages. Printed in Korea. Cover Design: the Crane is the national bird and since we were flying in from all over the world, I had the cranes in flight with the names of all the countries we were flying in from for this conference as the backdrop.

Client: International Korean Adoptee Associations

I am a Korean adoptee, so when this organization approached me to design its conference booklet, I jumped at the chance. This international organization supports local Korean adoptee organzations around the world and holds an international conference every three years. More than 200 adoptees from all over the world gather for this weeklong conference. I folded a lot of my own wishes and desires into this book to create something that went beyond the basic conference information.

This book had three goals:
1. To educate the Korean adoptee community about our history (I suggested the timeline to show our history).

2. To function as a directory for the attendees. The directories have the adoption photos as well as current photos. Next to the photos are the original Korean names given to the adoptees, the dates they were adopted and the organizations they were adopted from. This is key information that helps the adoptees start a dialogue, to bond, to find each other and to find others adopted through the same organizations. I left blank spaces for people who didn't have adoption photos. Not all of us have access to these photos for myriad reasons.

3. To serve as a resource for attendees to find each other because we are scattered all over the world (Australia, Denmark, Sweden, Italy, the U.S., to name a few). I organized the directory of attendees by country. It was easier to remember the country someone came from and attendees could also see who else was from their countries. It also allowed them to see how many adoptees were living in specific countries and where the Korean diaspora had landed. This is improtant for the adoptees — for us to understand where we came from and where we ended up. It created a strong starting point to find each other.

The book was 112 pages and was printed in South Korea.

Cover design: The crane is a powerful image and often is depicted in Korean art. I designed the cranes in flight with the names of all the countries represented at the conference as the backdrop.

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