Dung Ngo is a design writer, the founder and editor-in-chief of AUGUST, a print journal on travel and design, and the publisher of August Editions, a bespoke publishing house with a focus on historical and contemporary visual culture. For over a decade he was the creative director and senior editor at Rizzoli International Publications, where he worked on the definitive monographs with such designers as I.M. Pei and Andrée Putman. He is the author of several books, including Bent Ply, a history of 20th century plywood furniture; Tom Kundig: Houses; and the forthcoming Knife Fork Spoon, a history of modernist cutlery design.