From a trained ballerina to graphic designer, Boah Kim creates synergy between client and designer
Having cut her teeth at Bureau Borsche and in-house at Balenciaga, the Paris-based designer and art director explains how she came to establish Studio Boah Kim.
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We often hear about unusual routes into graphic design, but Boah Kim’s is something of an exception. Born and raised in Seoul, the designer who is currently based in Paris, trained to be a ballet dancer until the age of 17. Growing up with a sports teacher dad and an opera singer mum, Boah evolved amidst a merging of both talents. She went onto study journalism at university where she immersed herself in literature and art history. And it is here that she was first introduced to Apollinaire’s poems and concrete poetry; Boah’s first discovery of typography.
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