Seongil Choi

Seongil Choi (b. 1984) is a Seoul designer who studies materials and processes and turns what he learns into furniture and objects. He took a BA in industrial design at Kookmin University, an MA in Design Products at the Royal College of Art in London, worked with Faye Toogood and co-founded the London practice Studio ilio, before returning to Korea in 2020 to set up Studio il Works.

Fabrication is the subject of the work: the Hardened Mesh Project (2022) fixes industrial mesh into rigid, almost geological forms, and the Mirror Block stool and the Soft to Hard series push the same logic into seating and lighting. Choi teaches at Chungnam National University and the Korea National University of Arts, is completing a doctorate in product design at Seoul National University, and was picked for Define Selection at DEFINE SEOUL 2024.