Dinh Truong*

is a Multidisciplinary Designer who prides themselves in Material Respect.

Selected Featured Work*

Design BFA Thesis 2023

The Dragon's Eye

A Grill Table paying respect to Vietnamese Heritage, Ancestry and Mythology.

Gemini Collection 2023

Castor and Pollux

Exploration of Moveable Transforming Furniture

Adaptive Reuse Architecture 2022

Wayfinding

Interior Redesign of the Rhode Island School of Design Dining Hall Disposal System

Gemini Collection 2023

The Twins

Ergonomic Low Stool Exploration

Visual Development Architecture 2022

NoCom

Mentored under Eric Mason*Architectural Reimagining of what a "Kitchen" would look like for a community.NOCOM investigates what home is for individuals who don't have nuclear families in hopes of creating meaningful connections. Initial Designs focused on how furniture within kitchens, specifically the island, can bring people together. This later evolved and became a spatial reimagining of what a "kitchen" is and can be.

Brown | RISD Exhibition Design 2022

SteamRAVE

Interactive Exhibit Design with Brown | RISD SteamRAVE at the Production Workshop @Brown.Worked alongside Erica Song on Logistics to secure space. Worked with Linus Sun, Vivian Li and Joanne Lee on VFX.

Exhibition Design 2022

Recollections

Mentored under Ayako Maruyama*Working alongside Design for Public Engagement (XPE) to curate an open studio exhibit for RISD's Industrial Design Department for the RISD Centennial

UI/UX Development 2022

Plexus.Earth

Contracted by a machine learning network startup to create mockup UIs and ideate on what the future user experience and brand feel would look like.

Exhibition Branding Design 2022

Collapse Symposium

Mentored under Rene Payne*Developed the Collapse Symposium brand identity through motion graphic design and concept generation as part of an Internship with included by FAVOR Design Co.

Selected Featured Works*

Mutable Apparel 2023

Magnetic Manipulation

Exploration of fabric embedded with neodymium magnets for mutable folding garments

PLA and Scanning Experimentation 2023

The Number e

Featured in Wild Bodies and Genderless Landscapes Gelman Gallery Show 2023Exploration of body documentation through scanning, 3D printing and iterating on the self. Reconceptualizing senses of self according to numerical and linguistic letter "e"

Áo dài and Sound Design 2022

Betta Splendens

Hand draping and embedding a traditional Vietnamese Áo dài with speaker units and based off of historical research on the Betta Fish (Betta Splendens)

Military Historical Research 2023

1980s Recycling

Converting a 1980s Military-Grade chemical suit jacket to an adorned garment. Used as a historical research tool to analyze post-war reclamation and acknowledgements

Architectural Material Studies 2022

Dew

Tin Plate material studies to create handheld potentially usable forms within an architectural building context

Wooden Studies 2021

Material Explorations

Wooden craftsmanship studies utilizing hand planes, rasps, lathes, bent lamination, and handiwork

Handpainted Digital Works 2021

Selected Digital Paintings

Concept Visual Development work painted using Photoshop and Clip Studio Paint

Selected Featured Works*

Dinh Truong*

Dinh Truong (they/them)* is a Vietnamese-American Multidisciplinary Designer.Trained in Industrial Design and Literary Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design Dinh loses and finds themselves in the stories of materials. Their making process centers paying utmost respect to every found material, their origins, and exploring their unlimited potential.

Found previously at:
A Market that Never was V.1 Magazine
Reflections and Refractions 2023 Provwash Gallery
Wild Bodies and Genderless Landscapes 2023 Gelman Gallery
Recollections Exhibition 2022 ID Gallery

Selected Featured Works*

The Gemini Collection 2023

Inspired by constellations, movability, and clean forms this collection was made for an ever moving world.

Castor and Pollux Table

Cherry, Walnut, Danish Oil 2023Acknowledging histories of both western and eastern occupation in Vietnam, this table is about reweaving, reconfiguring, and reunderstanding home.

The Twins

Cherry, Walnut, Danish Oil 2023Bringing low stools even lower; paying respect to the history of Vietnamese moveable plastic stools while using materials that feel more permanent and more slow.

The Dragon's Eye

150 year-old Spalted Beech Wood, Bluestone, Mirror Polished Stainless Steel, Aluminum GrillAs a celebration of Vietnamese origins, mythologies, and the forever significance of cooking, the Dragon's Eye is to pay respects to Leviathans, Fairies and every Ancestor that has come before me. Fully functioning as a grill, The Dragon's Eye wakes up in gardens and provides summer and winter feast to living Ancestors ongoing.

Wayfinding 2022

Interior Redesign of Dining Hall Disposal System in Rhode Island School of Design's Metcalf Refectory. Site research, collaboration and many thanks to MET service staff.

Foot Traffic Analysis

Onsite research conducted to minimize waste disorganization and promote ease of use for both students and service staff.

Brand Redesign

Followed existing brand guide to create low cost and accessible floor, bin and wall graphics.