She/her | thurnguyen@gmail.com |
San Francisco Bay Area
B.Arch 2024 Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo

Hello, my name is THU

and I am an interdisciplinary designer interested in how design can be a tool for communication as well as a means for experience. I enjoy exploring creative outlets and finding new ways of how design can create a better world.

I like Sewing, Film photography, Reading, and walking my dog, Benson!

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is an architectural and found art exploration of golf, infrastructure, and how different aspects of society can be constructed to impose control and distribute power.

2024 | Tags: Collage, Mapping, Thesis, Social justice

is an architectural project that produces a new definition for a public / civic space through reproductive health and care.

2022 | Tags: Modelmaking, Collage, Manifesto, Architectural drawings, Social justice

is a housing community for creative hermits based on the cycles of life. An open meadow is joined together through housing units, a community center, a columbarium, and the people that inhabit it.

2021 | Tags: Collage, Character, Community

is an architectural project of the Kearny Street Pedestrian Bridge in Chinatown, San Francisco, focusing on the immigration of Chinese laborers and how movement has affected spatial qualities and time in relation to government, community, and social systems.

2023 | Tags: Render/Visualization, Collage, Mapping, Social justice, Community

PR + graphics for the National Organization of Minority Architecture Students at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.

2021-2024 | Tags: Social media, Social justice, Student community/resources

Branding and graphics for AppeTea, a soon-to-be launching family-owned boba tea shop in the Bay Area.

2022 | Tags: Branding, Logo design, Social media, Menu layout

Design and photography for the Best Zucchini Bread recipe page.

2023 | Tags: Recipe layout, Typography, Cooking, Chocolate

Rising Asian Activist Alliance (RAAA) is a community organization focusing on making accessible education as a process of politicization and activation, founded on radical Asian diasporic activisms.

2020 | Tags: Activism, Social media, Social justice, Community, Education

Rat lover

A personal project launching a sticker sale where proceeds were donated to support BIPOC artists during COVID-19.

2020 | Tags: Sticker design, Social media, Social justice, Community, Rat

Architecture blurs the line between work and play, classroom and home. This visual installation explores the tension of toxic studio culture with the potential for creative spaces to foster a supportive, familial atmosphere. Palestinian motifs are featured as a subtle form of protest in a heavily trafficked public setting.

2023 | Tags: Installation, Architecture as a surface for communication, Social justice

Thu Nguyen