ILLUSTRATION
The Time Traveler Finally Falls in Love
by T.S. Leonard
Poetry Magazine by The Poetry Foundation
“and it ends, of course, in fabulous heartbreak, like anything—
it’s not an if, but when—so the trick is learning how to bend
the days you get: nailing our flowers to the wall, reading
side by side; memorize his body curving like a question
mark, asking, can we stay like this forever?”
母念 // 思母
By Evan Wang
Poetry Magazine by The Poetry Foundation
“…
but her body is a sun drowning on the bed’s horizon. She
once dragged motherhood out from a girl to escape her rifted
past. Now thirty-nine, she rarely calls home. All her life,
she has met the wrong people, never clearing out the rifts
…”
HOW TO TALK ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH IN VIETNAMESE
By Phi Do
Los Angeles Times
AD Taylor Le
On the last day of AANHPI Heritage Month and Mental Health Awareness Month, the LA Times published this multimedia guide to how to talk about mental health in the Vietnamese community across generations and drawn from months of conversations with mental health experts, researchers, linguists, community members, family and friends.
I contributed a series of animated chapter illustrations to this project combined research and data journalism, web development, audio production, and animation. View the mental health resource can be here.
WOK HEI IS VANISHING FROM HONG KONG. MY MOM WANTED TO TASTE IT AGAIN.
New York Times Magazine
AD Annie Jen
Interactive feature for NYT Magazine‘s Food Voyages issue, sending writers and photographers on personal culinary quests. This one accompany’s Alex Lau‘s photography and memories of his mother revisiting Hong Kong.
THE CLEAVING: VIETNAMESE WRITERS IN THE DIASPORA
By Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network. Edited by Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, Lan Duong and Viet Thanh Nguyen.
Published by UC Press.
CÂYlendar 2025
For ‘Museum, a Tiny One,’ a poem by Vivian Pham.
Fundraiser for Đùm Bọc Collective and Gaza Sunbirds.
THE CHANGING FACE OF PROTEST
Rest of World
AD Cengiz Yar , UX Joanne Lee
A series for a six month investigation on how facial recognition technology is being used by governments worldwide to suppress, punish and discourage protests. I illustrated 5 chapter illustrations, including an tall scrolling opener with responsive coded animation, and contributed design assets like chapter navigation, frames and breaks.
IF TRUMP WINS
The Atlantic
AD Elizabeth Hart
An illustration series for The Atlantic’s special issue entirely devoted to the ramifications if Trump wins a 2024 reelection.
IT’S HIGH NOON IN AMERICA
In our popular culture and in our politics, we’re returning to the Old West.
By Noah Hawley
The Atlantic
AD Paul Spella
Who Blew Up Nord Stream?
An animated series for an investigation into the suspects behind the Nord Stream pipeline bombing in the Baltic Sea, released on the one year anniversary of the attacks
Die Zeit / Zeit Online
AD Tina Ahrens
HAS THE MYSTERY OF THE BALTIC SEA ATTACK BEEN SOLVED?
Zeit Online
AD Tina Ahrens
Paying Homage to the Wounds
Harvard Divinity Bulletin
Autumn/Winter
AD Nathan Eames, Nikita Kataev
A first person account from a Afghanistan war veteran’s struggles with faith and trauma upon reintegrating to civilian life.
Minnesota lets nurses practice while disciplinary investigations drag on. Patients keep getting hurt.
ProPublica
AD Lisa Larson-Walker
LIFE IN DETENTION
The Los Angeles Times
AD Taylor Le
I’m a high risk obstetrician, and i’m terrified for my patients
New York Times Opinion
AD Shoshana Schultz
“What am I going to do when I meet this patient — when I am sitting in an examination room with her as a nightmare unfolds before us?”
David Hackney, a high-risk obstetrician in Ohio, shares his fear that he will not be able to help his patients in post-Roe America.
WEEKS WITHOUT A SHOWER: NEGLECT DEFINES COVID-19 CONTAINMENT IN CALIFORNIA JAILS
The Intercept
AD Soohee Cho
Shielded from public view, misconduct by corrections staff in illinois prisons received scant discipline
How the Illinois Department of Corrections conceals or fails to discipline officers for abuse and misconduct.
An investigation into risks to incarcerated people in Illinois correctional facilities.
ProPublica and WBEZ Chicago
AD Lisa Larson-Walker
The Penguin Book of Migrant Literature - Departures, Arrivals, Generations, Returns.
Penguin Classics
AD Matthew Varga
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Debt to Me
by M.H. Miller
The Baffler
AD Lindsay Ballant
Colonial ghosts
by Junot Díaz
The New York Times Book Review
ADs Aurora Colon, Matt Dorfman
A review of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Committed.
Rage: Narcissism, Patriarchy, and the Culture of Terrorism
The shared belief systems, personality traits and childhood experiences of terrorists and domestic abusers.
A review of “Rage: Narcissism, Patriarchy, and the Culture of Terrorism” by Abagail Esman.
Kenyon Alumni Magazine
AD Erin Mayes, Em Dash Design
The Privileged Have Entered Their Escape Pods
by Douglas Rushkoff
OneZero, Medium
AD Claire Merchlinsky
Survival of the Richest
By Douglas Rushkoff
Medium
AD Ryan Hubbard
The Misguided Idiot’s Quest for Immortality
by Alex Pearlman
Medium
AD Ryan Hubbard
The Misguided Idiot’s Quest for Immortality
by Alex Pearlman
Medium
AD Ryan Hubbard
Arnoldia Magazine
Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University
AD Nikita Kataev, Point Five Design
Lantern flies
WINTER WEDDING, WHITE PLAINS
SPRING RAIL AND RIVER BED, MONKSVILLE
FALL LEAVES AND WALNUTS, MORRISTOWN
SUMMER HAIL AND ACORNS, PATRIOTS PATH
Seasonal studies of flowers, feathers and nuts captured in cyanotypes and painted in sumi-e ink.
the smashing pumpkins
The Ringer
AD David Shoemaker
How Charles Manson Put an End to the Hippie Movement
VICE x CBS All Access.
AD Dersu Rhodes
Series on Los Angeles cults across three decades for VICE x CBS All Access.
1960s — THE MANSON FAMILY
This LA Cult Went from Making Salads to Making Psychedelic Rock
1970s LOS ANGELES — THE SOURCE FAMILY
VICE x CBS All Access.
AD Dersu Rhodes
This Buff, Speedo-Wearing Guru Started a 1980s Sex Cult
1980s LOS ANGELES — BUDDHAFIELD
VICE x CBS All Access.
AD Dersu Rhodes
Summer on 18th St
The Washington Post Magazine
AD Michael Johnson
House Party
The Washington Post
AD Michael Johnson
April 12, 2020, issue: “There’s a regular dance night here in New York with DJs and art installations. When the recent event was canceled because of the mandates about physical distancing, organizers announced a Zoom videoconference party instead. I love the idea of sharing a single soundtrack, being comfortable in your home environment and getting to be a little less self-conscious about your moves.”
OPEN IN EMERGENCY TAROT SET
Asian American Literary Review
ADs Mimi Khúc and Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis
A decolonized deck of tarot cards, featuring original art and text that work to reveal the hidden contours of Asian American emotional, psychic, and spiritual lives, as well as the systems of violence that bear down upon them.
Replacing the archetypes of the traditional major arcana (e.g., the Empress, the Hierophant, the Wheel of Fortune, etc.) are figures drawn directly from Asian American life--the Migrant, the Foreigner, the Shopkeeper, the Adoptee, the Model Minority, the Desecrated Temple-- reinterpreted by Asian American artists, poets, and writers.
Rhinos in Nebraska
by Alison Pearce Stevens
Henry Holt & Co
AD Liz Dresner
Nebraska Book Awards, Best Illustration Winner
FAlling into the dragon’s mouth
Macmillan Publishing
AD Liz Dresner
Freedom Calendar
Asylum Seeker Resource Center
AD Jess Lilley
A visual response to a tweet from a Manus detention center detainee.
The Runaway President
The Atlantic
AD Katie Martin
Alien NATION: 36 TRUE TALES OF IMMIGRATION
Edited by Sofija Stefanovic
Harper Via
AD Stephen Brayda
Freedom Manifesto: Humanity on the Move (2017)
Centrale Montemartini, Rome, Italy
AD Erin Bazos
A puzzle is a journey
The New York Times
AD Katherine Lee
A narrative crossword puzzle inspired by a mother’s immigration during the Fall of Saigon.
Can Historians be Traumatizd by History?
by James Robins
The New Republic
AD Lindsay Ballant
I WAS MISTAKEN FOR A U.S. SPY
by Suki Kim
The New Republic
AD Parker Hubbard
Venezuela's Hunger Games
by The New York Times Editorial Board
AD Melody Newcombe
HUNGRY GHOSTS
Production Designer Carrie Kennedy
Producer Timothy Hobart, Matchbox Pictures
When a tomb in Vietnam is accidentally opened on the eve of the Hungry Ghost Festival, a vengeful spirit is unleashed, bringing the dead with him. As these spirits wreak havoc across the Vietnamese-Australian community in Melbourne, reclaiming lost loves and exacting revenge, young woman May Le must rediscover her true heritage and accept her destiny to help bring balance to a community still traumatised by war.
Set dressing for 4-part TV mini-series that aired on SBS TV Australia (2020)
LET THIS DARKNESS BE A BELL TOWER
Directed and animated with Mila Nery
Read and translated by Joanna Macy
Written by Rainer Maria Rilke
Sound by Chris Heagle
AD Erin Colasacco
Publisher The OnBeing Project
Foo Dogs
Draft and Draw NYC
AAPI WOmEN lead,
Merch aid
Shirt and print design for AAPI Women Lead, with 100% of profits towards furthering their work strengthening the social and political power of AAPI communities.
AD Chloe Saintilan
DI an Di, merch aid
Exclusive merchandise for Vietnamese restaurant, with 100% of profits going back to the local business through the Covid-19 pandemic.
ADs Chloe Saintilan & Zack Roif from R/GA NY
THE SOCIAL OUTFIT
Dragons pattern for dresses, tops, scarves and face masks.
The Social Outfit is a social enterprise providing social support, training, and work in the fashion industry.
KAYA press x diasporic vietnamese artists network
Fundraising promotion for Kaya Press’s 25th Anniversary and DVAN’s 12th Anniversary.
book of curses advent calendar
Asian American Literary Journal
AD Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis
MOONCAKES
Luna New Year Festival
halloween B(r)ats
Bratty bats dressing a tree in TP for Fall
George: A magpie memoir
Vanity Fair
AD Khoa Tran
A memoir from painter/poet, Frieda Hughes, about the rescue and friendship of a baby magpie from a storm, and living with the legacy of her parents, Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes.
Kookaburra
‘The Laughing Jack-Ass’
Hope on the Wings of the Whooping Crane
The Texas Monthly
AD Victoria Millner
OTHER LIVES: RECONFIGURATION
World premiere at Brooklyn Academy of Music for the 2015 Next Wave Festival at BAM Howard Gilman Opera House
Director: Terry Kinney
Producer: Rebecca Habel / Mix Tape Productions
Music: Other Lives
Artist's Assistant: MJ Steele
Set design by Frank McCullough
Lighting design by Ben Stanton
Projection design by Daniel Brodie
Sound design by Drew Levy
Dungeons & Dragons on Death Row
by Keri Blakinger
Pop-Up Magazine
AD Leo Jung
Pop Up, Dungeons and Dragons Reel
ADRIFT: HOW THE MARINE CORPS FAILED SQUADRON 242
Propublica
ADRIFT is an animated short documentary that tells the story of a midair crash that killed six Marines during a training mission over the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Japan in December 2018.
HONORS
The Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting (2020)
White House Correspondents’ Association Journalism’s Katharine Graham Award for Courage and Accountability
Society for News Design Award, Excellence in Illustration, Excellence in Animation and use of Video and Digital Storytelling
Malofiej 28th International Infographics Awards (2020), Silver
Adrift Reel
AD Katie Campbell, Reporters T. Christian Miller, Megan Rose and Robert Faturechi,
Editor Joseph Singer, Motion Producer Lucas Waldron, Animator MacGregor Campbell
Kung Fu Zombies vs Shaman Warrior
Animated projection for live reading
Playwright Saymoukda Vongsay
Music by DJ Kool Akiem & Justice Shroomcloud.
Smithsonian APA's CTRL+ALT Culture Lab (2016)
477 Broadway, SoHo/Chinatown NYC
Trailer - Kung Fu Zombies vs Shaman Warrior
AN AMERICAN IN SYDNEY
A memoir comic for The Washington Post’s By The Way travel vertical that remained unpublished when the spread of covid-19 rendered it most parachronistic.
The Occupied Wall Street Journal Newspaper (2011)
The Commute: Corruption and Danger on The Streets of Kampala
by Apophia Agiresaasi, Nakisanze Segawa
The Global Press Journal
AD Katie Myrick
CANLEY VALE BAKERY
Signage design, typography and character illustration
summer in the tidal basin
The Washington Post
AD Michael Johnson
June 7, 2020, issue: “When I hear stories of flora and fauna thriving among the absence of humans, I picture unthreatened, un-self-conscious animals taking advantage of summer in all the ways we’ve taken for granted and will be missing.”
ROLL’D
The Thrills
Personalized character designs and illustration for the Hoang family’s pantry line expansion with new broths, sauces and noodles.
World Brand Design Silver Award
roman candle
pinot noir
Communal Brands & Grochau Cellars
AD Kent Johnson
UNSW Center for Ideas, Kaldor Center for International Refugee Law & Guardian Australia
AD Kara Jensen-Mackinnon
Editor Lauren Martin
Interaction designer Pat Armstrong
Podcast series telling the stories of six refugees and asylum seekers as intimate examples of the 30,000 people caught in legal limbo under Australia’s ‘Stop the Boats’ campaign.
2021 Webbys Award Honoree, Podcast Documentary
University of Minnesota’s Open Rivers Journal
Environmental Justice Issue Cover
Verge: Studies in Global Asias, Vol. 6 No. 1, Spring 2020
University of Minnesota Press
JOURNEY TO THE WEST
This 9m long granite mural features hand painted ornament. It was designed with Popperbox collective and commissioned by South Western Sydney Freight Line, Cabramatta Station.
Four Divine Beasts of Chinese Constellations
Made in NY Media Center by Independent Filmmaker Project
3D Constellations Projected on Manhattan Bridge
AD Albert Chau
a fistful of pain
Limited edition print and pin-up for graphic novel.
ComixTribe
govote.org
Animated gif for social media campaign for govote.org
Oatly
Raincoat designs for climate change fundraiser
hulk
Doomsday
Splash page for Death of Superman fan comic