Chang Sik Kim is a professor at San Jose State, a typographer, and a visual communication designer. His specialty is type and image integration, especially in the use of visual metaphors and methodologies to conceptualize complex ideas. Chang has published three complete books, written multiple articles, and has held 18 solo exhibitions in Spain, the United Kingdom, Poland, Armenia, Japan, Korea, and the United States. He is the founder and Chairman of ideec and has also been a juror of several International design competitions such as ‘Poster for Tomorrow,’ ‘Granshan,’ ‘Wow Design Festa,’ . Chang’s clients have included Samsung, Yahoo, Amazon, HP, Hyundai Motors, and Hammer Theatre among others. His research papers and works have appeared in professional conferences and publications including Graphis, Print, How, Baseline magazine, ICOGRADA conference, Granshan conference, AIGA Munich Design Week, etc.