TÍN LÊ
DESIGNER
/ARTIST
@CHICAGO


ARTIST’S BOOK
05.2023

HEART(LESS)


A riso and letterpress printed book about the grieving of your home as it moves on without you The book deconstructs one single image of my hometown, Saigon, and personifies it as a living breathing creature.

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ARTIST’S BOOK
06.2022

WADE


An accordian-fold, screenprinted book that materializes the melancholy and grief of migration. A diary featuring stream of consciousness writing and images pulled from personal collections and scanned documents related to immigration including visas, passports, birth certificates, etc


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IDENTITY
11.2023

(UN)REAL


Visual identity and printed matters for a senior group exhibition held at the SAIC Galleries.

Riso printed.

Collaborators: Andrew Chen, Xuanyi Zhao
Artists: Ellie Beam, Andrew Chen, Spencer Dyson, Tyler Gregoire, Adriano Kalin, Tin Le, Ash Nañoz, Alyssa Tate, Chloe Thompson, Nikki Tobias, Joy Wang, Yiran Zhao, Xuanyi Zhao

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LAYOUT DESIGN
05.2023

MIND THE GRID


Fold-out book designed for “Mind the Grid”, a senior design exhibit held at the Design Museum of Chicago.

Collaborator: Xin Yi Fang
EDITORIAL
05.2023

TLON


Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius by Jorge Borges, reimagined. 

















EDITORIAL
04.2023

GLYPHIC ORACLE


Get your graphic design fortunes read. A 30-card oracle-inspired deck that reinterprets typefaces (both classics and new favs) for divination purposes. 

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EDITORIAL
06.2022

WONG KAR-WAI


A publication for the essay “Trapped in the Present: Time in the Films of “Wong Kar-Wai”” by Ewa Mazierska and Laura Rascaroli.  Wong Kar-Wai is a filmmaker from Hong Kong whose work explore the transitory nature of time and space.

ARTIST’S BOOK
12.2023

PLAYING DEAD

Inspired by a family story involving immigration, ghosts, and secrets, this installation project uses letterpress printing as a design medium to investigate the temporal and spatial distances that we humans create for ourselves

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IDENTITY
03.2023

MUKI


Logomark for a furniture brand featuring a moose mascot. 

CAMPAIGN/MOTION
05.2023

IKEA80


A spec anniversary campaign for IKEA, celebrating their 80th birthday.  Visuals and palette inspired by vintage IKEA catalogues published in the 50s.

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