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Stacy Nguyen (she/her)
This week, I wrote a news story for @nwasianweekly This week, I wrote a news story for @nwasianweekly, one that features a number of really amazing API chefs sharing their stories and their thoughts on their industry and the culture within it that upholds cycles of abuse and power disparities. You can read the story via link in my bio. . This is a difficult story to write, but I do believe that it's an ongoing conversation we must keep having. Something that I didn't cover in the story is our own complicity, as consumers and as patrons of restaurants --- how our desire to have unreasonably "affordable" food comes at a really high cost, with implications that ripple out and affect people's livelihoods, their happiness and health, and their safety. . Big thanks to the following people for their help, their time, their words, their vulnerability, and their truth: @memoirsofagay_chef @diepette @bb6twpopup @butchery101 @meltronica @brothers.and.co, @christineswu, and one other. And thanks to editors @ruthremi and @itsmehan_8 for being pals and pros.
Ahhh I'm posting this in between meetings and I ne Ahhh I'm posting this in between meetings and I need to go pee! So real quick caption. Dude, this is something that has cropped up for me a lot this week, so I wanted to share some thoughts around it. Just want all of us to love the shitty things we create more! 💓
Here's another illustration for @redboatfishsauce, Here's another illustration for @redboatfishsauce, of their KHO SAUSSS. I feel like the two other illustrations in this series were whimsical and cute, so want to bring elegance, a sense of gravity, and sex appeal with this one. . On second slide, there's a pic of my sketch. I've been enjoying the sketching process and sharing them with you guys. It makes me wonder if I should sketch for fun. But then I realized I don't believe in having fun for fun's sake, so then I shut that idea down quickly. 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️
It's been a little while since I've done a self po It's been a little while since I've done a self portrait. I did this one in between a bunch of looming deadlines just to reset and do something for fun. It's kinda about how creativity is finite and how the creative process is not always effortless.
Here's another stickie I illustrated for @redboatf Here's another stickie I illustrated for @redboatfishsauce. It's a stickie of thit kho voi trung, which is a braised pork and egg dish. Red Boat recently launched a new product, their kho sauce! Kho is an entire suite of Vietnamese dishes, much like casserole is an entire suite of dishes in American cuisine. Kho is very much home cooking and you don't often see it in restaurants. A kho is a savory and sweet caramel-based braise that you eat with rice. It's super yummy. . It was really amazing doing work for Red Boat (to work with @phaminist @phamtasticjj and @diepette), and it was especially special because, being Vietnamese, I was able to illustrate with a lot of specificity and add in a few inside jokes and illustrate with nuance. It was nice not to guess! It was nice to just know stuff for once! . You can flip thru and photos and see the preliminary sketch. Sometimes I feel like the sketch is more dynamic than the finished product. Not in this instance, but SOMETIMES I feel that way. Anyway, it was nice talking to you. Have a great Friday!
Stacy's Unboxing Show: Red Boat. Fish sauces are s Stacy's Unboxing Show: Red Boat. Fish sauces are soooo integral to Vietnamese cuisine, so it was such a treat to open a box full of @redboatfishsauce goodies. I illustrated some stickers to promote the launch of Red Boat's brand new #khosauce, which is another Vietnamese staple: an amazing savory, caramel-y, fishy braising sauce. I made this unboxing video because it seemed so selfish to keep the joy that came out of this box all to myself!
This illustration was a commission from maybe 7 or This illustration was a commission from maybe 7 or more years ago and it was one of my more negative experiences. I was paid $100 for this one, and the client art directed me a lot and would request big changes that required really labor intensive redrawing because they had real shit taste. 😂 Or I guess we can say they had a different interpretation of the subject. . I pushed back on a lot of the requests and the working relationship became tense, which was super fun. . But I'm glad I went through it because it taught me a lot about being mindful of who I do work for and creating processes so that this kind of thing doesn't happen as often. . Anyway, I call this illustration, "The male gaze."
While I am a big proponent of leaning into mistake While I am a big proponent of leaning into mistakes (because that's where the most growth happens!), there are some mistakes I've made in work that still make me wince when I think back on them. I mostly wince because I'm a little ashamed over how long it took me to STOP making the mistake! Also, I framed this as "mistakes in work" but as I was writing these out, it struck me that these can easily be "mistakes in life" or "mistakes in relationships." . . . . #hottips #worktips #graphicdesign #stacyshottips #mistakes #careerlessons
Bruh, my favorite brand in the world @redboatfishs Bruh, my favorite brand in the world @redboatfishsauce released a kho sauce today, for all you sugar-burners out here (me! it is me!). I illustrated stickers for this momentous occasion. Here's tom kho. Flip through to check out some concept art, read my super deep notes to the super amazing Red Boat ladies (@phaminist, @diepette, @phamtasticjj) and generally peruse through the rejects before you see the winner at the end!
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