Jeewon Kim


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Jeewon Kim is a multidisciplinary designer based in New Haven and Seoul, 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. She received her MFA at Yale in 2025 and BFA from Hongik University.

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.

She is 1/3 of Letterheads, a type collective formed with Kate Johnson and Allison yoon. She also writes a personal blog called in:draft.

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

Exhibitions

May 2025    an oblique character, Green Hall Gallery, CT, US
Sep 2024 – Oct 2024    Upward Spiral, Green Hall Gallery, CT, US
Oct 2023 – Nov 2023    Why do i always fall out of bed at night?, Green Hall Gallery, CT, US
May 2023 – Jun 2023 Sip from the Skull: Tipsy Shanghai 6, NY, US
Apr 2023    This Design is Very Human, 32 Edgewood Gallery, CT, US
Nov 2019    Design Doers, HoMA, Seoul, KR


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