instructional books & zines by Jean Y. Kim
RISO printed in fluorescent pink, green, and yellow.
2019
All citrus fruits are hybrids and re-hybrids of four ancestral fruits: mandarins, pomelos, kumquats, and papedas. The first of EC editions, Citrus Hybrids & Cultivars, illustrates the relationships between modern citruses and their predecessors.
The zine unfolds into a poster featuring the ancestral citruses. Holes punched throughout the zine creates connections between the images on different pages and folds. (e.g. the yellow behind the hole indicating lemon comes from the image of the fruit on a different page!)
RISO printed in saekdong colors (red, blue, yellow, fluo pink, green, black). Notebook spiral bound; 5x8 inches;
2019
A fun guide for English speakers to learn how to make sense of Hangul (한글); features mini-pages that flip and combine to create different single-syllable words.
RISO printed in fluorescent pink, orange, and black.
2019
An origami kit that includes 1 open faced box and 48 paper stars. Folding instructions are printed on the objects.
a RISO printing color chart for: Yellow, Orange, Fluorescent Pink, Bright Red, Violet, Cornflower Blue, Blue, Teal, Green.
2019
There are around 300 flavours of Kit Kats in the world. Most originate from Japan. According to Nestlé, Kit Kats, whose names sound like the Japanese phrase “kitto katsu”, or “surely win” are the country’s most popular candy. In Japan, you can find Kit Kats in department stores, with flavours that showcase the signature flavours and fruits of a particular region. The first of these was a strawberry flavour that debuted in Hokkaido at the start of strawberry season. Miniature Kit Kats such as Sweet Potato (Okinawa), Adzuki Bean Sandwiches (Nagoya), Tokyo Banana (Tokyo), give tourists a way to share the scents, tastes, and colours of their time abroad with loved ones.
Dedicated to Gorka & Eki.
REFERENCES:
• “Big in Japan”
• Anders Maysland
Riso printed & staple bound.
4.5x3.25”
2019
If you know you know. A tribute to the Asian/Pacific-Islander supporting stars who lit up our screens in the 90s & early 2000s.
Featuring: Grace Park, Sandra Oh, B.D. Won, Sung Kang, Rick Yune, Daniel Dae Kim, Kelly Hu, Keiko Agena, Lucy Liu, Brenda Song, Paolo Montalbán, Dante R. Basco, Devon Aoki, Nicole Bilderback, Thùy Trang, Verne Yip Maggie Q
RISO printed in assorted duotone. Perfect/tape bound; 3.75x2 inches;
2019
A tribute to the last days of the New York DIY scene and some relief to those of us who enjoyed it a little too much. One side of this flipbook features photos by Leia Jospe and a millennial twist on an old saying: “we do not inherit our bodies from our twenties, we borrow them from our thirties”; the other shows some handy back exercises for neck, shoulders, and backs wrecked from moshing and crowd-surfing in basements and warehouses around Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan.
RISO printed in faux CMYK; staple bound; 8x11 inches
written in collaboration with Chelsea Baken
2021
What makes a fruit snack different from a jelly candy? Pectin is a type of starch (heteropolysaccharide) that can be found in high quantities in fruits like apples, grapes, and citrus rinds... In search of the best overall fruit snack, we raided our local grocery stores, bodegas, and Targets for every flavor we could find and put together this index. We’ve rated them on three categories: appearance, texture, and flavor. Consume and enjoy!
2023 edition RISO printed in orange and brown. Approximately 4x4”
2021, 2023
Gam (감) in Korean can mean two things - feeling/sense 感 as in 공감, 불안감, or persimmon fruit. This is an infinite folder featuring the configurations of gam as well as my mom’s recipe for 수정과 (sujeonggwa), a ginger-y persimmon and cinnamon tea.
5.5 x 8.5”
2022, 2023
A collection of translations of (mostly) English movie titles. Find out what American classic was released in Korea as “Shoot Towards Tomorrow” (Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid) and what the translators thought would be better titles for movies like Ghost (Love & Soul) and Rescue Rangers (Squirrel Rescue Team)!
Riso printed & spiral bound.
7x7"
2022
Jogakbo is a method of patchwork commonly used to make bojagi, Korean wrapping cloths. These bojagi have been generated using the p5.js and p5.riso libraries. The patterns you see are recursive. Recursion in computer science is when a function in code calls itself, used to make things like fractals and mazes. Here, the bojagi squares are divided into sections, then those section are divided in the same way. The division happens again and again until the areas are too small to be divided any further.
Riso printed in black, aqua, fluorescent pink, and yellow.
Dimensions Variable
2022
A double-sided print that makes use of an asymmetrical box pop-up mechanism to add some dimension to illustrations of a public bathhouse. Public bathhouses are a rarer and rarer sight in modern Korean cities. This particular one was ‘drawn’ with code! The tiles, fixtures and banana milks were put together using the P5JS library. P5JS is a JavaScript library for creative coding. P5JS is free, open-source and easy to learn.
