Hi there, I’m Zoe!

I’m a Vietnamese multidisciplinary designer working across visual identity, typography, editorial design, and digital experiences. I’m interested in how things come to mean something, how a letter becomes a voice, an image becomes a memory, or a collection of seemingly unrelated things begins to make sense together. Much of my work lives somewhere between structure and intuition, between knowing what I’m looking for and stumbling into something I didn’t expect.

I’ve spent the past several years studying, working, and making things between Vietnam and the U.S. Somewhere along the way, I learned that I enjoy figuring things out just as much as I enjoy making them. I like a good research rabbit hole, a new tool to experiment with, and a project that gives me a reason to learn something I didn’t know yesterday.

Outside of design, I’m usually taking photographs, paying attention to things most people walk past, or going down a rabbit hole I have no practical reason to be in. I’m also an enthusiastic collector of interests, and a person who will probably tell you more about a niche subject than you originally wanted to know. I’m a designer by profession, a chronic learner by circumstance, and an overthinker by absolutely no one’s request. I’m still figuring things out, and probably always will be.

Check out my résumé → to learn about the more practical details!

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Recognitions

Tyler School of Art & Architecture, Temple University

2024–2026

  • ☆ Full-ride Graduate Scholarship & Assistantship Recipient
  • MFA Thesis Exhibition
  • Allen Koss Memorial Award in Motion & Emerging Media
  • Research & Process Award

State University of New York at Plattsburgh

2019–2023

  • International Grant & Scholarship Recipient
  • BFA Senior Exhibition
  • Student Selection Exhibition
  • Tony Papa Memorial Award
  • Permanent Collection (Presidential Purchase)
  • Barbara Johnson Parnass Scholarship in Photography Recipient
  • Winkel Scholarship in the Visual Arts Recipient
  • Dean’s List Academic Achievement Award

American Institute of Graphic Arts Baltimore

2025

  • Flux Student Design Finalist

American Institute of Graphic Arts Philadelphia

2026

  • Featured in Locally Sourced, Issue 04

Education

Tyler School of Art & Architecture, Temple University

Philadelphia, PA

MFA Graphic & Interactive Design

State University of New York at Plattsburgh

Plattsburgh, NY

BFA Graphic Design & Photography

☆ Graduated with Great Distinction (Magna Cum Laude)

Good design begins with asking better questions, where every answer opens up a hundred thousand whys about design, meaning, and everything in between.

→ Researching

→ Observing

→ Making

→ Refining