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Stacy Nguyen (she/her)
This is a graphic recording that I recently did fo This is a graphic recording that I recently did for @seattle_neighborhoods' I Love Census Data virtual conversation. These virtual conversations are part of a series that brings together community members, city agencies and staff, data professionals, and community artists to explore how demographics data is resonant to the lived experiences of real people in Seattle, esp our communities of color. This series is a collab between the Dept of Neighborhoods, the City of Seattle Demographer, and the Seattle Office for Civil Rights. FYI, their next virtual convo is April 26th, on housing, education, and economic opportunities. . For those who may not know, a graphic recording is basically live illustration + notetaking that happens in real time as spontaneous discussion and conversations happen. It's really do or die, though nobody who has hired me has articulated the stakes that way --- I JUST LIKE TO DESCRIBE IT THAT WAY to stress people out. 😋 I enjoy doing graphic recordings every now and then because I think it's one of those rare activities that marries my journalism background with my ability to draw REALLY FAST. Pre-COVID, I used to do these in-person, in front of people, with markers and sharpies on a big roll of paper.
Oregon-Trail-in-the-computer-lab vibes. Illustra Oregon-Trail-in-the-computer-lab vibes. Illustrations: Nintendo Gameboy, TV-VCR combo, rotary phone, camera film, cassette tapes, floppy discs, boom box, VHS tape, 3D glasses, floppy diskettes
HEADLINESSSSSSSSSS! ARE HARD! Titles are hard! So HEADLINESSSSSSSSSS! ARE HARD! Titles are hard! So here's a silly little cheat sheet that's all formulaic so you can hopefully title your things faster and move on with your life already!!! I crafted these tricks out of years of boiling down other writers' beautiful, nuanced words into pithy one-liners with impunity! Have a great weekend everyone. . . . (transcript): . When I write or oversee content, I like to pretend that my audience is a bunch of ADHD 12-year-old boys who all just ate a bag of Swedish Fish gummies. This means that the attention span of my audience is microscopic, and I have to be strategic and think about how to present content that engages right away. Here are some pretty easy tips on writing engaging titles. . 1. Make your title a full sentence. For some weird reason, after we lovingly craft an opus of a million words, we often self-sabotage by giving it a title that is just a broad phrase. Something like: “Flying without wings.” Try making it a full sentence: Flying without wings is possible.” . 2. Be ultra-specific. Titles should give people a really good idea of what the content is about. Here’s an example of a title that only gives a general idea: “My trip to Flower World.” Here’s a title that gives a really good idea: “My trip to Flower World was the worst day of my life.” . 3. Put a number on it. Titles with numbers, especially odd numbers like 3,5,and 7, are a great way to hook brains. Consider “7 health benefits of green tea” rather than “The health benefits of green tea.” Also, try to put the number first in the title (don’t lead with “the”) and write is as a numeral, not as a word. . 4. Keep it simple, get to the point. Nerds like us like to overcomplicate and jargon-up titles, but resist and go with efficient, easy-to-understand words in titles. Write: “Teach your pet dog how to dance in only an hour” instead of “Efficiently increase canine companions’ aptitude for calisthenics.” . (see rest in comment below)
Me and other AAPI artists contributed to a @deutsc Me and other AAPI artists contributed to a @deutschla NFT collection that is open for auction on @rariblecom thru April 23! (Link in my bio!). Proceeds will go to @stopaapihate. . This gif is called "Why Isn't This $6?" and it's basically about how ANNOYING and racist it is that ppl will gladly pay $10 to buy a white ppl footlong sandwich at Subway but will FREAK OUT if they have to spend more than $5 for a Viet banh mi like y'all think pate is easy to make. It's about how we devalue "ethnic" food, which is often made by small business owners of color. . Pls help spread the word by sharing. And big thanks to @su.y0n, who invited me to contribute, and for also hustling so hard so everyone knows about this NFT collection. Tytytyty. ♥️♥️
Last week, we lost a really impactful and importan Last week, we lost a really impactful and important community leader. Kim Pham was the publisher, editor, heart, and soul of Nguoi Viet Tay Bac newspaper. I knew his newspaper before I knew him --- my parents spent most of the 90s hunting for copies of it to read over lunch in pho restaurants --- and when I finally met him in adulthood, I was struck by how strong-soft of a leader he was, how empathetic he was, and how much he loved and was proud of our Vietnamese community. He devoted his life to displaying our accomplishments. . In the last year, we also had the great honor of refreshing the Nguoi Viet Tay Bac brand, on the web, in print, and on social media. Flip through the slides to see some of the work. I felt so humbled to have been able to work on his newspaper. . My friend Julie asked me to write something about her dad's passing for @nwasianweekly. I've written probably a million obits in my time, but it didn't feel quite right to write an obit for him. So I wrote a remembrance. You can find a link to it in my bio.
This is the second part of my "Women in boxes" ser This is the second part of my "Women in boxes" series. #womaninbox
Yo, there are a lot of emotions that fly around wh Yo, there are a lot of emotions that fly around when you go from not drawing yourself at all to drawing yourself a lot. Here are the lessons I learned while doing so. They are all lessons with great outcomes, so I really recommend that people draw the shit out of themselves! (Or find your version of that). ❤❤❤ . . (Post transcript below here) . Title slide: Life lessons learned while drawing my face a lot. Growth happens all the time, man! . Slide 2: Why I started drawing me: I started drawing self-portraits in 2020 kind of on a whim. Part of it was that I wanted to practice drawing faces without the pressure of having to “make it pretty.” But more than that, I think I was frustrated with how anonymous I felt in my design work at times. Maybe I started drawing myself because I wanted to be seen. Here are unexpected life lessons that came out of this exercise. . Slide 3: LESSON 1: realized I didn't feel worthy of the treatment I was giving myself: It felt very egotistical in the beginning to draw self portraits of me looking like I think I’m cool and fun. We are so used to “important” people or “beautiful” people being rendered artistically. I didn’t realize how insecure I subconsciously felt about my face until I had to share my portraits. Sharing my face felt like I was declaring that I thought I was important. . Slide 4: LESSON 2: Repetition yields to tolerance!: After applying a GAZILLION hours toward scrutinizing my own face, I found that I stopped applying loaded emotions to it. I started seeing it as just shapes, lines, and colors instead. Not being bogged down by complexes gave me the bandwidth to mess around artistically and have fun with it. This taught me that, seriously, seeing non-white faces and non-white features matter a lot. It de-stigmatizes. . (continued in comments)
Fast food buddies. From left you have soda, ice cr Fast food buddies. From left you have soda, ice cream sundae with hot fudge, and a vanilla milkshake. . These were done in a method I used before I had touch screen devices to draw on. I drew these on paper, in sharpie, scanned, converted to vector in illustrator, and then colored in photoshop. So the line art and coloring have that kinda rough sketchy quality.
Woman in box. This piece features a woman with his Woman in box. This piece features a woman with history (wisdom) etched into her body, contained tightly in a finite space. #womaninbox
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