Jiwon Kim

Jiwon Kim was born in Seoul, South Korea at 1975, and went to Kyung Gi High school, and he started Fine Art practice, major in Visual Communication. In 1994, after he graduated high school, he changed his major to Sculpture, and went to University of Suwon at Suwon, Kyung Gi Do. During the college year, he recruited by Korean Army, and went to Korean Army School of Military and Technology, and served a squad Leader at 37 division Headquarter of Korean Army, and he trained as a professional graphic designer, handled an annual report, official government shipping documents, and propaganda prints for supply department. After he served Korean Army, he went to Western Illinois University (WIU). In 2003, he graduated with a BFA in Graphic Design, and Minor in Drawing, and he has won numerous art awards from WIU and his exhibited several shows in WIU Art Gallery. And he has exhibited in Seoul, Taipei, Istanbul, and Syracuse University.

After he holds a BFA, he immediately went to Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) to accomplish better career in Teaching and Graphic Design field. Before he graduate SCAD with Master of Fine Arts, He started working as a creative director for a private sector to serve many clients, and continuing his education, Jiwon completed a Master of Art in Illustration Design and a Master of Fine Arts in Graphic Design at the Savanna College of Art and Design. After he finished his degrees, he opened the Stuziwon M with his wife, Mihyun Chung at Seoul, Korea, and split his time between teaching and graphic design.

"We are graphic designers, and visual communicators who have been raised in a world in, which the techniques and apparatus of advertising have persistently been taught to be us as the most lucrative, effective, and desirable use of our talents. Designers are no longer truly perceived as the artist but money hungry designers who just click the mouse. I don’t want to be a money hungry designer like the everyday designer, so I will do governing my doctrines. I will learn, think, explore other edges, collaborate with others, study more, and make my own tools for design, then become a different designer than others. Even if consumerism of Graphic Design demands the everyday designers, we, professional graphic designers demand that the true graphic designer differentiate from the never learned and unprofessional computer person who sets up documents in software for follow the money."