My name is Viet-Triet, my legal birth name, but you can call me John. My middle name is Hoa. Nguyen is a common Vietnamese surname, pronounced similarly to "win."
I am an award-winning multidisciplinary graphic designer and artist with 15+ years of experience in the creative industry, working on both the client and agency sides. My passion for the arts began in early childhood, exploring painting at a young age. As a teenager, I discovered graphic design, which became my focus during college.
Much of my work is inspired by different cultures, social justice, and the spontaneous joys of the universe. My current motivation is to create work that amplifies voices that need to be heard—especially LGBTQIA+ and AAPI communities.
I have worked with global brands such as Taco Bell, Penguin Random House, Nickelodeon, and Hot Topic. My experience spans both agency and client-side roles, and I hold a BFA from California State University, Fullerton. My work has been featured in publications including Out Magazine, AdWeek, and LGBTQ+ Nation.
I currently reside in Southern California, USA. In my free time, I enjoy traveling, playing Pokémon GO, and watching films across all genres.
Countries I’ve traveled to: Vietnam, Italy, Spain, Mexico, Portugal, Sweden, Argentina, Indonesia, Singapore, Cuba, Thailand, and Costa Rica.
Bucket List:
• Swim alongside a manatee.
• Travel to all seven continents.
• Produce honey and care for my own beehive and bee colony.
The world always has room for improvement. Let's all be advocates to those in marginalized communities. Join me in amplifying the communities and organizations below. (This list is constantly evolving and changing.) Have a suggestion, question or solution? Contact John
SOCIAL ISSUE: Reading should be more acessisbile to everyone.
📚📖 Allstora: This bookstore champions creators, fosters community, and splits profits with authors. Join their book club to receive a selected book and exclusive content at your doorstep each month. Support your favorite authors, discover stories that resonate with you, and connect with like-minded people.
SOCIAL ISSUE: The LGBTQIA+ Community continues to have their rights, opportunities and safety at risk.
💙🟰 The Human Rights Campaign spent more than 40 years creating the most powerful movement for equality our country has ever seen. But despite this progress, our most marginalized are still suffering from violence, discrimination and fear. Our goal is to ensure that all LGBTQ+ people, and particularly those of us who are trans, people of color and HIV+, are treated as full and equal citizens.
SOCIAL ISSUE: Abortion is healthcare and other related healthcare resources are not accessible to all.
🤰🏻💗 Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. (PPFA) works to protect and expand access to sexual and reproductive health care and education, and provides support to its member affiliates. Planned Parenthood affiliates are separately incorporated public charities that operate health centers across the U.S. as trusted sources of health care and education for people of all genders in communities across the country.
SOCIAL ISSUE: The LGBTQIA+ community in Orange County, CA need to have their voices heard.
🎵🍊 The MenAlive Gay Men's Chorus of Orange County shares their voices (singing and non-singing) to build bridges from the LGBTQ+ community to the greater community at large. MenAlive is part of the larger choral movement which began in 1978 with the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus. Join their community events or a concert.
SOCIAL ISSUE: Racial and economic injustice continue to effect the most vulnerabe. Second chances shoudl be offered to many who have been victims to a currupt and unfair sysytem.
🟰💛 The Equal Justice Initiative is committed to ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the United States, to challenging racial and economic injustice, and to protecting basic human rights for the most vulnerable people in American society.
SOCIAL ISSUE: Asian Americans and the rest of the AAPI community continued to treated unjustly.
🌏⚖️ Asian Americans Advancing Justice (AJSOCAL) is a social justice organization that protects and strengthens the rights and dignity of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities, especially those that are most disadvantaged. The Southern California is one of many chapters.
SOCIAL ISSUE: Independent bookstore need empowerment to make books and reading more accesible.
📗🛍️ Bookshop.org works to connect readers with independent booksellers all over the world. Every purchase on the site financially supports independent bookstores and gives independent bookstores tools to compete online and financial support to help them maintain their presence in local communities.
SOCIAL ISSUE: National Parks and other natural spaces need to be celebrated, protected, and nurtured.
🌲⛰️ Since 1916, the National Park Service has been entrusted with the care of our national parks. With the help of volunteers and partners, we safeguard these special places and share their stories. Also supporting tribes, local governments, nonprofit organizations, businesses, and individual citizens.
SOCIAL ISSUE: Mental Health is a real issue and it need to be embraced by all.
🧠💖 NAMI is the National Alliance on Mental Illness, the nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illness.
SOCIAL ISSUE: People have abilities that have the potential to outshine their disabilties.
🧩👩🏻🦼 RAD Camp offer awesome programs and camps for adults and children with developmental disabilities, much-deserved respite for their caregivers, and a life-changing volunteer experience for the local community. RAD stands for Rising Above Disabilities.
