Alisa
Nguyen

Interdisciplinary she, her

Alisa is a designer from Vietnam who blends traditional paper crafting, illustration, motion design, and branding. Inspired by her love for food, she designs cookbooks, menus, and interactive maps of Vancouver restaurants. Alisa thrives on multidisciplinary challenges, exploring and refining ideas to deliver creative, thoughtful design solutions.

Profile photo of Alisa Nguyen and one work thumbnail.

Dean’s List 2022–2024

A digitally illustrated, animated map of Vancouver’s Vietnamese food scene featuring six must-try Vietnamese restaurants.

On the left, a person holds the cookbook, showing the front cover. On the right, illustrations of cooking utensils are shown.

This interactive cookbook invites children from all cultures to dive into the fun of learning how to cook.

An interactive element in this cookbook demonstrates how the meat is cooked.

An animated explainer video showing how static electricity causes electric shocks in the winter.

A short animation introducing fabric material characters and how they cause electric shocks.

Illustration of animals sitting on a bus, including a bunny using the Adobe app. The second image shows the initial sketch, and the third is an Instagram post mock-up.

An illustration for a social media advertisement for an Abobe Mobile App Bundle.

CREDIT: SOCIAL MEDIA MOCK-UP FROM FREEPIK.
The first image shows the whole glyph set, and the second image shows how it is applied in a poster.

Loopie is a playful typeface inspired by the typography often found in children’s books. The letterforms feature whimsical curves and a sense of fun.