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.”
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.
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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