Taekyeom is currently an Assistant professor of Graphic Design at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC. He is an interdisciplinary artist although he prefers to call himself a designer using artistic force. He received an MFA degree in Graphic Design from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has made three-dimensional type as a series of typographic explorations to strive challenge and seek a new way to create tangible type in three-dimensional space. Recently, he infused CAD design and 3D printing into his research and has been working on ceramic 3D printer and 3D printing process.
