Hi, I’m Sylvie Viet-Dung Pham, an illustrator and designer who loves bringing stories to life with playful color and expressive characters. I specialize in creating illustrations and graphic designs for children's books and publications, and I enjoy collaborating with authors to develop concepts, storyboards, and visual elements that support a story’s voice. I’m a team player with exceptional listening and communication skills, comfortable drafting thumbnails through to final color, and I’m experienced in formatting layouts and typography. My work spans publishing, exhibitions, and self-published series, and I’m passionate about making meaningful, accessible art for diverse audiences.

Sylvie Viet-Dung Pham

Hi, I’m Sylvie Viet-Dung Pham, an illustrator and designer who loves bringing stories to life with playful color and expressive characters. I specialize in creating illustrations and graphic designs for children's books and publications, and I enjoy collaborating with authors to develop concepts, storyboards, and visual elements that support a story’s voice. I’m a team player with exceptional listening and communication skills, comfortable drafting thumbnails through to final color, and I’m experienced in formatting layouts and typography. My work spans publishing, exhibitions, and self-published series, and I’m passionate about making meaningful, accessible art for diverse audiences.

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Hi, I’m Sylvie Viet-Dung Pham, an illustrator and designer who loves bringing stories to life with playful color and expressive characters. I specialize in creating illustrations and graphic designs for children’s books and publications, and I enjoy collaborating with authors to develop concepts, storyboards, and visual elements that support a story’s voice.

I’m a team player with exceptional listening and communication skills, comfortable drafting thumbnails through to final color, and I’m experienced in formatting layouts and typography. My work spans publishing, exhibitions, and self-published series, and I’m passionate about making meaningful, accessible art for diverse audiences.

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Work Experience

Illustrator/Graphic Designer/Founder at Mizu Books
January 1, 2020 - November 5, 2025
Collaborate with author Linh Phung to research and develop concepts, storyboards, characters and visual elements for each story. Sketched thumbnails, final line, value, and final color versions. Formatted layout and selected typography. Projects include Four Seasons Together (2024), Translanguaging: Hallie's First Words/Stories of Vietnam (2023), Tug of Words (2022). Illustrated The Invisible Thread (2021) by Robin Lynne Gordon. Self-published Uni & Dragons series (2020) and designed story and illustrations. Designed The Touch (2020) for Nảy Mầm Exhibit to raise funds for forest planting in Vietnam. Illustrated The Toad is God’s Uncle, a folk tale published in Heritage in-flight magazine, Vietnam Airlines (2019). Created bilingual English-Vietnamese and Japanese versions for domestic and international flights. Created cover pages for children’s books A Lil Twirly Story of Candy (2019) and You Are Not My Grandma (2019).
Graphic Designer/Illustrator at Freelance
January 1, 2016 - November 5, 2025
Design signs, logos, and gifts for clients using Adobe software.

Education

MA in Illustration at Academy of Art University, San Francisco
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 2025
BA International Business at National Taiwan University
January 11, 2030 - November 5, 2025

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Media & Entertainment, Education, Professional Services