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01 MEMORIES IN DOTS2025
02 LUKELLY: BEFORE IT FADES2025
03 ON THE BUTTON2025
04 BENEATH THE SURFACE +
BEYOND THE SURFACE 2024
05 ETCHING2024
06 2025 KOREAN CALENDAR +
HISTORY BOOK 2024
07 TIME CAPSULE 2024
08 SKY MAP: SATELLITE CONSTELLATIONS2024
09 HANBOK’S ENDURING ELEGANCE 2023
10 AMA, ET FAC QUOD VIS 2023
11 CONSCIOUSNESS 2023
12 PHOTOGRAPHY ARCHIVES 2019–
2025 KOREAN 
CALENDAR + HISTORY BOOKInspired by the Korean tradition of gifting calendars as a gesture of gratitude and good wishes, this project reimagines a 2025 Korean calendar as both a cultural object and a personal gift. Designed entirely in Hangeul, it celebrates the beauty of Korean typography while combining traditional and contemporary aesthetics. The calendar functions as an everyday tool and a visual archive meant to be displayed and used throughout the year. Along with it, a companion book explores the history of Korean calendars through research and archival references. Both were created to expand accessibility, history, and cultural connection. 

Book: 5.5 x 8.5 in
Calendar: 11 x 16 in

Calendar cover
Book cover
 
Highlights from the Book
Highlights from the Calendar
2025 is the year of the Blue Snake in South Korea. Inspired by the Korean calendar archives, I intended to create my calendar using limited graphic elements (e.g., photographs, gradients, 3D, etc.) and mainly typography. Using the shapes of Hangeul (Korean language) and numbers, I created graphics that resemble blue snakes by stretching them instead of using a condensed font to represent snakes in an abstract way for the cover. 

With the limited graphic rule that I created for myself, I used one of the Korean alphabet letters, “ㄹ” to represent a blue snake. As I was experimenting with the shapes, I realized that when “ㄹ” is vertically flipped, it looks like number 5. Also, when it’s not flipped, it looks like number 2. Therefore, I created a progress bar that represents both the snake and the year 2025 on the top page, bottom left corner for each month.

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SEO YEON (KELLY) KIM