Taekyeom is an interdisciplinary artist, although he prefers to introduce himself as a designer using the artist's material and artistic sensibility. He is currently an Assistant professor of Graphic Design at Iowa State University in Ames, IA. He received an MFA degree in Graphic Design from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

His research explores unconventional methods of creating the multi-dimensional type, graphics, and even designed objects with materials and techniques unique to typography and graphic design. As a design researcher, he is trying to develop, test, and find the place of the emerging technologies in artistic and creative practices. He infused 3D printing into his research and has been experimenting with various digital methods and conventional and unconventional materials in 3D printing, like ceramics.