GRAPHIC DESIGNER
AEJAY VIVANH-VONGEmail: aejayv02@gmail.com
Instagram: @fujiaua
AeJay is a graphic designer from Iowa. He graduated from Iowa State University with a Bachelor’s in Graphic Design and a minor in User Experience Design as of May 2026. With experimentation and curiosity for design, AeJay emphasizes research, exploration and refinement to each project.
He collaborates within the working design industry, with work spanning across branding, visual identity, posters, editorial, web & digital design.
His work has been selected for and received multiple awards and recognitions, including GDUSA Student to Watch, Midwestern Graphic Design Biennial, UCDA Design Awards, Art Director’s Association of Iowa, Flux National Student Design Competition, among others.
INFO
OCEAN PLASTIC
OCEAN PLASTIC
ARCHIVE
Technical:
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Photoshop
18” x 24”
Categories:
Poster
Typography
Experimental
DESCRIPTION
Ocean Plastic explores the relationship between material experimentation, digital manipulation, and environmental storytelling. Beginning with a series of physical studies, the project paired actions such as tearing, burning, and cutting with unexpected materials to discover how tactile forms could be transformed into expressive digital compositions.
Centered around the action word damage, the final poster uses translucent colored plastic to construct a vibrant interpretation of an underwater environment. The layered colors and organic forms are intentionally beautiful, reflecting the richness, movement, and biodiversity of our oceans. Yet beneath that beauty lies an intentional contradiction, which is, the imagery celebrating marine life is created from the very material threatening its existence.
This tension gives Ocean Plastic a sense of visual irony. Plastic becomes both the material that creates the ocean and the force that disrupts it, suggesting that the beauty represented within the poster could eventually be obscured or lost to pollution. By allowing something harmful to appear beautiful, the composition encourages a closer look at what is at stake when plastic becomes inseparable from our oceans.