"Allow Design in Quarantine" Mokwon University Visual Design Department 'Tteumjeon' Graphic Exhibition

An image photo of "The Safest Shield in the World" submitted to the exhibition by Choi Myung-gil (4th year), Department of Visual Design, Mokwon University. Provided by Mokwon University

[Asia Economy (Daejeon) Reporter Jeong Il-woong] A public service advertisement exhibition incorporating design will be held in Daejeon. Reflecting the prolonged COVID-19 situation, the exhibition is expected to play a role in fully highlighting the public function of design by visually conveying the importance of quarantine.

The Department of Visual Design at Mokwon University announced on the 12th that it will hold the public service advertisement exhibition "Dduim (DDUIM) Graphic Exhibition" at the on-campus art gallery from the 13th to the 19th.

The Visual Design Department has held exhibitions 42 times to date, starting with its inaugural exhibition in 1980. After researching submitted works by current students, the department holds an exhibition every first semester to publicly showcase the works.

This year's exhibition focuses on changing social disorder and improper practices encountered in daily life, with themes including COVID-19, animal protection, water pollution, and the harms of social networking services. The works are submitted as posters and app designs.

In particular, this year’s exhibition features works that raise awareness about individual quarantine activities, which may become lax due to the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic, thereby strengthening the exhibition’s public service function.

The university is also enhancing quarantine measures during the exhibition. After careful consideration, since the exhibition will be held in person, the university plans to apply quarantine rules stricter than government guidelines. To this end, access by outsiders will be partially restricted, and only one visitor per 10㎡ will be allowed inside the exhibition hall, according to the university.

Im Hyun-bin, Dean of the College of Art and Design, said, “Walk-through and drive-through screening clinics, which introduced K-quarantine to the world, are positive examples showing that ‘design can also be a vaccine’ by remodeling existing environments,” adding, “Mokwon University’s College of Art and Design plans to expand convergent creative education to nurture innovative and creative designers required by future society.”

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