Correspondence Seoul, KR

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blank field note, title / date / client / scope / solution
창세기 book cover, watercolour lotus and dragonfly

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book cover, 2025

O Come Emmanuel, monotone mountain line study

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AI Challengers symbolmark, sparkle over a U-shaped cup

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창세기, read outdoors: Yeyesisters photography

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YeyesistersBrand & WebNo. 01
ESTcampBrand & WebNo. 02
O Come Emmanuel IllustrationsIllustrationNo. 03
WadizWebNo. 04
Chook Chook Restaurant MenuPrint & IllustrationNo. 05
City Guide: GyeongjuPrint & IllustrationNo. 06
Book Trailer: Letting You GoMotionNo. 07
The Old Letters: Photo EssayEditorial & PhotographyNo. 08
YeyesistersBrand & WebNo. 01
ESTcampBrand & WebNo. 02
O Come Emmanuel IllustrationsIllustrationNo. 03
WadizWebNo. 04
Chook Chook Restaurant MenuPrint & IllustrationNo. 05
City Guide: GyeongjuPrint & IllustrationNo. 06
Book Trailer: Letting You GoMotionNo. 07
The Old Letters: Photo EssayEditorial & PhotographyNo. 08

Designed as a system, collected by hand.

I'm a brand designer. I build identities, websites and design systems made for the AI era: the brand's history and rules organised so a client can keep making on-brand work after handover, even with no designer in house. Illustration is the expertise I bring to that work: when a brand needs a hand-made layer, I can paint it myself.

Method

Field method

01 · Observe

I start by noticing how a story wants to be told: who the brand belongs to, and what people already feel about it.

02 · Collect

I collect visual inspiration from daily life, and I listen: to the client's story and the brand's history, to the market it is entering, and to the people who will meet it for the first time.

03 · Catalogue

I sort what I've heard into something written down: the identity, the rules, and the brand's history organised into files that both people and AI can read.

04 · Build the system

I build a design system that keeps working after handover: the identity and guidelines, plus an AI agent set up on the brand's own files. A client with no in-house designer can still make on-brand work and keep it consistent. I run my own practice the same way.

SunYoung Kim

Collector

Brand & Web designer
Seoul

Correspondence

sunyoung.kim.design@gmail.com

Field marks

Instagram

Index

Catalogue
About

Portfolio concept, swap in your own photography and illustration plates before shipping.