Assistant Professor
Graphic Design Program, San Jose State University
http://design.sjsu.edu/graphic/faculty/kim/kim.html

Principle and Art Director,
NeoAlchemia Design Studio
Graphic and Information Design Firm, USA
www.neoalchemia.com

Visual Identity Series
Digital Prints

Kowork Group Inc., USA
Business and language consulting service
2000

Korean IT Network, USA
Korean Information Technology Network Organization
2001

NeoAlchemia Design, USA
Graphic and interactive information design service
2001

Oki Graphics, USA
Professional pre-press and on-press service
2001

Chang Sik Kim is a graphic designer and interactive information designer as well as assistant professor at San Jose State University. He has expertise in metamorphic image making with experimental typography and book design as well as visual identity design. However, his recent works and researches have emphasized the dynamic interactive design. He was an assistant professor at An Yang Technical College and a lecturer at several other universities in Korea. He started his educational career in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to teach graphic design courses as an instructor, and received "Teaching Excellence Award" of year 1999~2000.

Chang Sik Kim has published three complete books (Electronic Publication Design, Graphic Idea Notebook, and Letter and Images) and numerous articles. For last 10 years as an educator, he held three solo exhibitions that contained works on extremely diverse experimental subjects such as: typography, Character design, and image making). His research papers, articles, and works have appeared in various professional publications including PRINT magazine, MONTHLY DESIGN, COSMA, IMPRESS, MAC World KOREA, Weekly DESIGN NEWS, LG AD Magazine, KIDP and VIDAK annual. He has also received numerous design awards from professional organizations.

Beside educational activities, since 1989 he has been involved various degrees of visual communication design areas such as: publication design, visual identity design, advertising design, time-base-media design, etc. Particularly in the field of publication design, he designed many newspapers, magazines, and more than 150 book covers. His another creativity has been recognized by creating many successful characters in Korea His initiated web site design for the distance learning course of UIUC was announced "the most effective and comprehensive site" as a appropriate model among National French language Institutions in the US.