Dong Yoon Park, a designer and creative technologist in the MFA program at Parsons New School for Design, was featured in The Atlantic recently for creating Typography Insight, a tablet application meant to help designers study fonts.

Inspired by his own experiences in the classroom, Park decided to take advantage of touch screen technology to help beginners understand the subtleties of spacing and curvature. Rather than relying solely on textbooks to study the extremely subtle differences between certain typefaces, the touch screen allows for a precise manipulation of letters that can be compared side-by-side and examined more closely by the user.

According to his Parsons student profile, Park received his Bachelor’s Degree from Korea University and worked as a software research engineer at Samsung Electronics before arriving at Parsons. He recently published a how-to book, iCan iPhone4 Programming, which became a bestseller in South Korea. Park will start working for Microsoft this July.

[Photo of Dong Yoon Park: Parsons; Screenshots: Typography Insight]