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Tiffany [Thu] Nguyen (she/her) is a Tkaronto based Designer and Visual Artist.

After (design) interning at Universal Music Canada and recently graduating from George Brown’s Graphic Design Program, Tiff is now freelancing and looking for an internship at a design studio. Tiff advocates for equality and hopes to work with a team that remains critical of the world post-grad. She believes in a collaborative, justice-centred, and fluid creative practice that centres care and community.

Her focus lies in editorial design, branding and is interested in exploring art direction.
Her hobbies include painting, reading & social justice. 
Her growth model resides in finding more time to play and linger in conversation.


1.ARTICULATE (2024): Branding  

Tkaronto, CAN
Designer: Tiffany Nguyen
Video & Edit: @Mohtohsoh

Description:
Handwritten wordmark.
Interchangeable logos/icons.

Logo design for Articulate, a video interview series between artists in Toronto. The brand aims to create community and share resources to uplift each other. It is designed to be timeless, bold, versatile and artistic. The double headed animal represents the host Asma and her interviewee, both are extensions of the Creative Body.


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SCHOOL OF MEDIA (2023-4) : Branding & Social Media 

Tkaronto, CAN
Work: IN Store
Client: George Brown School of Media
Designer: Tiffany Nguyen
Type: Acumin Variable Concept by Robert Slimbach.
Description:
Brand language dev.
Social Media Guidelines
Content Creation

Special Thanks
Lori Endes
Trent Scherer
Content Creation and Social Media Guidelines for George Brown School of Media Program. My objective was to increase traffic & brand recognition of the George Brown School of Media Instagram page. My strategy was to create a consistent brand language and create new categories of content. The design is energetic, with modern treatments that reflects the future-ready programs offered. We were able to surpass 1k by the end of the term.




3.HONEY PANCAKE (2024) : A zine on the Vietnamese Visage  

Tkaronto, CAN
Author: Tiffany Nguyen, Danni Nguyen
Designer: Tiffany Nguyen
Photographer: Tiffany Nguyen
Production: Jukebox
Dimensions: 4x6.5in, 20pgs
Bound: Saddle Stitch
Paper: 80lb & 100lb Uncoated
Type: Rungli by Kaj Lehmann, Work Sans by Wei Huang

S/o to @issuesmagshop and @zine___dream for providing a space and community to sell/stock this zine!

Special Thanks
To my family & friends

HONEY PANCAKE is a zine that aims to honour the Vietnamese visage, embracing all the feelings and challenges that come with it. It is filled with images of my Viet family and friends and touches on the estrangement of living in these faces in the west and back at Home.



4.

READY-TO-EAT CURRY SOUP (2023) :  Hypothetical Packaging for Aroy-D Soup Line 

Tkaronto, CAN
Class: GRAPH1033
Designer: Tiffany Nguyen
Illustrator: Tiffany Nguyen
Type: Monaco by Susan Kare and Kris Holmes, PT Mono by Alexandra Korolkova, Helvetica

Description:
Packaging for Aroy-D’s Curry line.

Special Thanks
Robert Cortez

My task was to design the packaging for Aroy-D’s curry line for Upper middle-class busy moms that are unpretentious, enjoys brands like ‘No Name’ and main priority is to fulfill their basic needs. My approach was to strip back the design of the iconic asian brand just enough to keep a nostalgic and eclectic feeling of through the mix of 4 typefaces and simple illustrations.



5.OUROBOROS (2024) : A publication on Time Poverty [thesis]  

Tkaronto, CAN
Author: Tiffany Nguyen
Designer: Tiffany Nguyen
Illustrator: Tiffany Nguyen
Production: Moveable Type
Dimensions: 5x8in, 54pgs
Bound: Wir-o
Paper: 80lb & 130lb Cougar Smooth Cover

GBC 2024 Thesis Honourable Mention
RGD 2024 Editorial Honourable Mention


Special Thanks
Raj Graigner
Gilbert Li

OUROBOROS is a publication that critiques the past, present, and future of time poverty. [Time poverty: The feeling of not having enough time for what you need/want to do.] Designed with no beginning or end, the reader can start at any chapter, experiencing the book as an endless loop like the snake eating its own tail. This non-linear structure embodies abundant anti-capitalist perspectives on time. The four chapters touch on the development of our shifting relationship with time, critiquing capitalist clock time, discussing the science of space time and the search for time affluence.

Has time stress always existed?
What is its toll? 
Who can afford to slow down?




6.

UTTERSLEV UDVEKSLING/EXCHANGE (2023) : Branding & Strategy Charette  

Copenhagen, Denmark
Author: Tiffany Nguyen
Designer: Tiffany Nguyen
Illustrator: Tiffany Nguyen
Type: Meursault VF by Gunnar Vilhjálmsson & Kalapi Gajja, Acumin Variable Concept by Robert Slimbach.

Description:
Feild Research
Branding
Poster
Stickers

Branding and roll-out design for an urban mining workshop in Utterslev Torvs; a neighbourhood in Denmark during a 5-day Design Charette. 

This workshop works with local waste to teach repair skills & facilitate the sharing of resources & knowledge. Referencing the local pond and ducks in the area, the visual language is nostalgic, playful and Danish, fostering comfort amongst the largely elderly and children residents. The stickers are for doors and mailboxes to indicate the resources (tools or advice) neighbors are willing to share. 



The land I am writing, researching, designing and standing on today is the traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples that were violently removed by colonialism and is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples that do not have equal rights to their land. I stand in solidarity with the Indigenous community. Free Turtle Island. #freepalestine #freecongo #freesudan