Linh Dao

Linh T. Dao

Biography

Linh Dao is an interaction designer and educator whose creative and scholarly work explores the intersection between identity discourses and the development and implementation of creative and emerging technology. Her research interests include emigration, immigration, and migration, as well as minority equality and accessibility. Her work has been shown at Ars Electronica, the Institute for Art and Innovation in Berlin, The American Institute of Graphic Arts Design Conference, and the Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology at Connecticut College. Her list of clients includes the American Cancer Society, Nonprofit New York, the National Institute for Early Education Research at Rutger University, the New York Historic District Council, and the GLBT+ Historical Society Museum in San Francisco. In addition to being awarded by UCDA, Indigo Design Award, Graphic Design USA, and Creative Quarterly Design, her work has also been published by the Design Research Society, International Association of Societies of Design Research, and The American Institute of Graphic Arts. She is currently an assistant professor at California Polytechnic State University. 

 

Linh Dao Curriculum Vitae

  

Courses

• ART 437 Graphic Design Studio III
• ART 400 Independent Study
• ART 388 Interaction Design II
• ART 288 Interaction Design I
• ART 260 Critique and Discourse

 

Student Awards and Honors

• Salute Student Design Competition: Interaction Design Winner, 2023 
• Paperboard Packaging Alliance’s Student Design Challenge: Second Place, 2023. Second Place, Honorable mention (Top 5), Shout-Out (Top 9), 2022. Second Place, Honorable mention (Top 5), Shout-Out (Top 9), 2021.
• World Packaging Organization’s WorldStar Student Design Challenge: Bronze Medal (Overall), Bronze Medal (Marketing Appeal), Gold Medal (Health and Personal Care Packaging), 2024. Silver Winner (Overall), Gold (Marketing appeal), and Bronze (Sustainability category), Certificate of Recognition x 2, 2022. Bronze Winner (Overall), Silver (Marketing Appeal), and Certificate of Merit (Top 10) x 2, 2021. 
• Adobe + MTV Creative Jams: Finalist and Fourth Place, 2020

 

Personal Awards and Honors

• Design For Good Award Winner, Graphic Design USA
• Award of Excellence, Publication Design, UCDA
• Web Design Award Winner, Graphic Design USA
• Gold, Mobile Application and Interaction & Experience, Indigo Design Award 
• Gold, Web Design, Graphic Design USA
• Runner-up, Graphic Design, Creative Quarterly

 

Publications

• Unfolding The Self: Storytelling Through Interactive Packaging With Augmented Reality, DRS Learn X Design 2023 Futures of Design Education proceedings. 
• Identity Collage: a Workshop Method for Exploring Intersectional IdentitiesIdentity Collage: a Workshop Method for Exploring Intersectional Identities, International Association of Societies of Design Research (IASDR)
• Diverse and Inclusive Strategies for Crisis Management in the Design classroom, Dialogue: Proceedings of the AIGA Design Educators Community Conferences

 

Exhibitions

• Rage Against the Machine, Part 1: to be Human in America, Pittsburg Seen Gallery, PA.
• Aberrant Creativity, Texas A&M University in College Station, TX
• State of the Art(ist), a virtual kunsthalle, Ars Electronica in Liz, Austria 
• ¿y ahora qué? Experiencias de la cotidianidad migrante at Confeccioneson gallery in Madrid, Spain 
• Born Digital at Karne Lateinamerikanische Kunst gallery in Berlin, Germany
• Social Art Award & Exhibition, Institute for Art and Innovation, Berlin, Germany 
• Maria V. Howard Art Center Juried Art Show, Imperial Centre for the Arts and Sciences, Rocky Mount, NC
• 35th Annual International Exhibition, Meadows Gallery, University of Texas at Tyler, Tyler, TX
• Galex 54 National Juried Exhibition, Galesburg Civic Art Center, Illinois, Chicago
• Mixed Media, Nazareth College, Rochester, NY
• North American Poster Exhibit, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA