15 March 2025

The second collection of essays written by Moonae is being edited by the studio for a book publication.

3 December 2024

ORIGINAL-B, the studio's design album series, is on the way to this website.

5 October 2024

The first collection of essays written by Moonae is being edited by the studio for a book publication.

11 June 2024

Mor Ro has returned from the Scandinavian vocational school after two years. Three years were planned, but the Nordic country's changed VISA policy left him no choice.

16 May 2024

As an art practice, another ceremonial staff for a graduating student from the craft school is being carved. This one is a direct translation of the student's character.

3 March 2024

The making of a chess table finally sees progress after a long procrastination. Achieving a high level of accuracy in woodwork has been making Mor Ro stressed out.

21 January 2024

Mor Ro opened a drawing class with 10 wannabe designers at the craft school after having a beta test with a smaller group. This class doesn't cover CAD, but goes deeper into the principles of drawing instead.

3 November 2023

Mor Ro started reading a book, Arbetets ära, written by Thomas Tempte, a craftsman and a self-taught scholar. It's been a long, long while since the last book reading.

25 August 2023

As a woodcraft practice, an automata is being designed and built. This moving sculpture captures Mor Ro's first niece's childhood, which might be a souvenir for her when she gets old and lost in adulthood.

14 May 2023

A chess table making project has begun. This was originally individual woodwork skill practice, but Mor Ro recruited two student artisans from the school and started a collaboration project with which he intended to demonstrate an effective educational methodology.

3 May 2023

A graduation ceremony from the craft school's woodwork department is traditionally combined with ceremonial staffs given to the graduating student. These staffs symbolize a walking aid to their future path. Being made by 1st and 2nd year students at the department, the staffs are shaped in representation of the receiver's character. Mor Ro is designing and building one.

19 March 2023

A sculpture about the culture of crafts is being designed and built. Mor Ro's cynical opinion is disguised by aesthetic expression.

12 February 2023

Stockholm Furniture Fair is being participated in and visited by groups of people from the craft school. This biggest design event in Scandinavia is facing a big change and searching for a new organizer and venue.

10 January 2023

A prototype of a wooden first-aid box is being built after three mock-ups. This project was planned to introduce a usual design process to a craft-oriented educational program at the craft school.

3 December 2022

Mor Ro is attending a furniture history class. The lectures focus on Northern and Western European culture. The lecturer's ability to convey ideas is impressive. His lecture begins even before attendants enter the lecture room by playing back a piece of classical music that represents the era he is about to explain. 

4 October 2022

Woodwork hand tool skills are practiced with a stool making project. There may be nothing special about this practice, but people who learned woodwork with power tools experience enormous difficulties without the convenience. It is the same situation with drawing technical drawings without CAD.

18 September 2022

Walking 17 km round trip to a grocery store every Saturday became a routine, a physical and psychological measure to maintain stamina and ventilate stress.

29 August 2022

Morro's Online Design Book Club went on hiatus due to the poor wifi connection in the school dormitory facility.

21 August 2022

Mor Ro moved his workspace to a wood workshop at a craft school in Scandinavia after discontinuing a lease contract for a workspace in Seoul. The craft school is a vocational education institute. He will add muscles to his skills and knowledge of woodwork by taking lessons from Scandinavian woodworkers while continuing his design work.

1 December 2021

A furniture design class is extending to a group of people who have already taken the class before. They asked Mor Ro to guide their individual commercial projects with design tutoring. The classroom is the studio's meeting room and their own workshops.

24 August 2021

A design magazine DOMUS KOREA's final volume, issued in August, has an interview with Mor Ro.

12 June 2021

A series of built-in furniture for a small flat in Jamsil-dong in Seoul is being designed, built, and installed. The client is a book lover, which resulted in countless bookshelves among other furniture piecies.

29 April 2021

A built-in PC station for a client who lives in a big flat in Seocho-dong in Seoul has been completed. The client in her 70s likes to sit before a PC monitor and read the Internet news all day long in her parlor with her other family members around.

2 October 2020

A Half Chair is being exhibited at a folk museum in Onyang. Its organizer is the same as the exhibition in the previous month, a furniture designer, So Dong Ho.

15 September 2020

A Half Chair is being exhibited at TMO, Cultural Station Seoul 284 in Seoul. The exhibition was organized by a furniture designer, So Dong Ho.

4 August 2020

Mor Ro started a drawing tutoring for a writer who has an aspiration for her own book illustration.

1 December 2019

A series of 3D CAD lectures using Fusion360 is being prepared for Morro's furniture design class. Autodesk's Fusion360 is still free for amateurs.

6 November 2019

Tutoring on technical drawing is being given to a professional designer who has changed her field from fashion design to industrial product design.

1 August 2019

A series of 2D CAD lectures using DraftSight is being prepared for Morro's furniture design class. Dassault System's DraftSight is very similar to, but way cheaper than, Autodesk's AutoCAD.

28 July 2019

With a chair prototype test event at a furniture design academy in Seongnam realized, Morro's furniture class has reached its climax in its development since its inception about four years ago.

21 May 2019

Coffee tables for a cafe in Gangneung have been designed and built. Mor Ro invited two other designers to the project and shared the commission with one who finished his work in due time.

25 April 2019

A custom-made crate requested by a client was designed by Mor Ro. Several pieces were built and delivered to the client by a small manufacturer. The design was not luxurious. Nor was its profit.

20 March 2019

A wooden easel is being designed for Morro's drawing class. Several mock-ups have been made. Its prototyping will begin soon enough.

9 November 2018

A wooden stool is being designed for a client who lives in a Han-ok, traditional Korean housing, in Seoul. Two pieces were commissioned and will be built by a small manufacturer who has better woodworking skills than Mor Ro.

8 February 2018

A set of built-in furniture is being designed and built for a small flat in Yeonnam-dong in Seoul. The pieces are made with birch plywood sheets that are more economical and easier to handle than solid woods.

10 January 2018

A leasing contract for a workspace in Mullae-dong in Seoul has been made. The space will be used for an office and a prototyping workshop. It will be shared by another small company that produces wooden goods. Renovating the space is beginning shortly but won't end any time soon because Mor Ro is doing the job by himself.

1 November 2017

Mor Ro is flying to Helsinki for a public defense of his friend's doctoral dissertation at Aalto University. Fahrettin Ersin Alaca has worked on the subject of design heritage. This will be the first time for Mor Ro to attend this type of presentation.

3 April 2017

Mor Ro is flying to Milan for a small research project on legendary chair designs: Thonet series by Michael Thonet and Superleggera by Gio Ponti. It's been many years since he visited this world's largest design event last time when he was treated as an industrial spy for his ethnicity. 

1 March 2017

A woodwork academy in Seongnam hired Mor Ro for its ten-month-long furniture-building program with twenty students. The academy originally gave him just a short part of the program titled 'Design.' Mor Ro insisted on a more cohesive education between designing and manufacturing furniture pieces, which resulted in Mor Ro teaching the major part of the program during the ten months. 

2 January 2017

A series of lectures on furniture design by Mor Ro is happening at KN House in Gangneung. It consists of six weekly lectures, each of which lasts two and a half hours. The lecture starts on the 7th of January at 14.00. This event was organized by Hwang Sang Bong Wood Studio.

5 August 2016

A book club is being organized by Mor Ro. Only design-related books written in English will be chosen. A dedicated website for the club is also being prepared.

20 January 2016

A design magazine, 'WOOD PLANET,' has an interview with Mor Ro in its January issue.

3 September 2015

Mor Ro started his first furniture design class at the underground wood workshop.

16 August 2015

Half Chair ver. 3 is being developed.

21 April 2015

Mor Ro found an underground wood workshop in Seongnam for his new workspace. It is run by an entrepreneur and shared by several woodworkers. BLOODTYPE : B has launched with this workspace secured.