Khoi Vinh
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Khoi Vinh (born December 3, 1971) is a graphic designer, blogger, and former Design Director for The New York Times,{{cite news|title=Talk to the Newsroom: Khoi Vinh, Design Director|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/21/business/media/21askthetimes.html|accessdate=29 November 2010|newspaper=The New York Times|date=21 April 2008}} where he worked from January 2006 until July 2010.{{cite web|title=A Change|date=14 July 2010 |url=http://www.subtraction.com/2010/07/14/a-change}} Fast Company named Vinh one of "The 50 Most Influential Designers in America" in September 2011.{{cite web|title=50 Most Influential Designers in America |url=http://www.fastcompany.com/design/2011/50-most-influential-designers-in-america |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130529210029/http://www.fastcompany.com/design/2011/50-most-influential-designers-in-america |archivedate=2013-05-29 }}
Biography
He was born in 1971 in Saigon, South Vietnam, and immigrated to the United States at the age of three and a half with his family.{{cite web|title=About|url=http://www.subtraction.com/about/|work=subtraction.com|publisher=Khoi Vinh|accessdate=29 November 2010}} He grew up in Gaithersburg, Maryland. He attended Otis College of Art and Design, graduating with a major in Graphic Design in 1993. In 1998, he moved to New York City and began designing almost exclusively for the web and interactive media.{{cite web|title=Insights 2012: Khoi Vinh, New York |website=Walker Art Center |date=14 March 2012 |url=https://walkerart.org/magazine/khoi-vinh-new-york}}
In 2001, he co-founded a design studio, Behavior, where he worked until December 2005, when he became the design director for NYTimes.com in 2006.{{cite web|title=It's Not You, It's Me: Design Director Khoi Vinh Leaves The Times at Paywall Altar|website=The New York Observer | last=Turner| first=Zeke |date=2 August 2010 |url=http://observer.com/2010/08/its-not-you-its-me-design-director-khoi-vinh-leaves-emthe-timesem-at-paywall-altar/}} In 2011, he and Scott Ostler founded Lascaux Co., a New York City startup. In November 2011, the company launched Mixel, an iPad app that allows users to create "art". In 2013, he sold Mixel to Etsy and joined their team.{{cite web|title=Etsy Acquires The Team Behind Collage-Creating iOS App Mixel To Help Build Its 'Mobile Future'
|website=TechCrunch |last=Taylor| first=Colleen |date=22 January 2013 |url=https://techcrunch.com/2013/01/22/etsy-acquires-the-team-behind-collage-creating-ios-app-mixel-to-help-build-its-mobile-future/}}
In 2015 Vinh joined Adobe Inc. as a principal designer.{{cite web|title=Go read this Adobe designer's take on why Google Classroom is so joyless
|website=The Verge |last=Porter| first=Jon |date=21 May 2020|url=https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/21/21266004/google-classroom-joyless-adobe-designer-breakdown-slack-workplace-education-comparison}} He is currently senior director of product design with the company.{{cite web|title=Khoi Vinh
|website=Lovers Magazine |date=9 March 2021|url=https://www.loversmagazine.com/interviews/khoi-vinh}}
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External links
- [https://twitter.com/khoi/ Twitter account]
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