Jeewon Kim


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Jeewon Kim is a multidisciplinary designer based in New Haven and Seoul. She is currently an MFA candidate at Yale School of Art, working across various mediums. Specializing in visual identities and web design, she often creates custom typefaces and explores the interplay between digital and physical user interactions. She is particularly drawn to developing and repurposing tools and technologies in her projects.

Born in Seoul, with a brief early childhood in Washington D.C., Jeewon has a deep interest in language and translation. She sees translation as an act of mirroring—a process of defamiliarization and refamiliarization, encoding and decoding—methodologies that also occur in design. In an experiment with friends, she had them mimic what she was writing on their backs, turning the body into a site of translation. She continues to explore new mediums where translation can take “shape.”

She writes a blog called in:draft.

Previously, she was designing identities and UX/UI for mobile and web services, including Samsung Card, Hyundai Motor Group, and CJ OliveNetworks. Coming from an Industrial design background, she also designed the products for the Netflix sci-fi TV series The Silent Sea. Her responsibilities included research, concept sketches, 3d-modeling and rendering.

Reach out for freelance work, collaboration or request a PDF portfolio.jeewonkim.work@gmail.com
+1 203 390 0655
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2025    Yale School of Art, MFA in Graphic Design, CT, US
2020    Hongik University, BFA in Industrial Design, Seoul, KR, Thesis show art director, Thesis project sponsored by Model Solutions
2018    HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd, Baden-Württemberg, DE, Student Exchange Program

Experience

2015 – Present    Freelance Graphic Designer
Aug 2024 – Dec 2024    Teaching Assistant at Yale School of Art
Jun 2023 – Aug 2023    Yale CCAM Ultra Space Fellow
Sep 2020 – Feb 2023    Graphic Designer at Hidden Figures
Arp 2020 – Sep 2020    Pre-production Designer at Netflix Korea The Silent Sea, 2021, dir. Choi Hang-yong

Selected Clients

Audi Korea
CJ One
Hyundai Motor Group
Mystic Entertainment
Netflix Korea
Samsung Card
Sejong City
Seoul Museum of Art
Wicked Wife
Yale CCAM
Yale School of Architecture
Yale School of Art


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