Mankun Guo

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Awards

Award 360°,
Gold in Experimental Design.
2025 


Tokyo TDC,
“Excellent Work”.
2025 


New York TDC, Typographic Excellence.
2024


New York Young Ones TDC, Winner & 3rd Prize of All Categories.
2023


Graduate360° Annual Graduation Design Award, Best 100.
2022


NewOne Awards,
Winner in Multimedia.
2022


77Core Design Award,
Student Notable in Communication Design.
2021

International Design Award,
Gold in Multimedia/Animation.
2021


C-Idea Design Award,
Finalist in Video & Animation.
2021

CGDA Visual Communication Design Award,
Bronze in Publication Design.
2020


The First Jinan International Biennale,
Poster Bid Winner.
2021

Press

Plain Text 3,
content TBD.
(upcoming)


New Glyphs New Writings,
Review of work: “Typography as a Living System.”
2025


Design360° Special Issue 2024
Interview
2025


Tokyo TDC Vol. 36,
work archived.
2025 


Graphic Design USA, 
Interview.
2025


Typography 45: The World's Best Typography,
work archived.
2025


Another Graphic,
work archived.
2024


Tomorrow Type Today,
work archived.
2024


Contemporary Type,
work archived.
2024


CanvasRebel,
Interview
2024


Shoutout LA
Interview
2024


Typography 44: The World's Best Typography,
work archived.
2022


Asia-Pacific Design 亚太设计年鉴, No.19,
works archived [x3].
2023


Cargo, Sites in Use,
Portfolio archived.
2022, 2025


Cargo Graphic Design [x7],
works archived
(1)
(2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7).
2022-2024

NewOne Talks 青论社,
Designer speaker series: “Beyond Design”.
2022


Graduate360° 100 Graduates of the Year,
work archived.
2022


RISD 2022 Yearbook,
Typeface in use.
2022


RISD Graphic Design Department website,
Typeface in use.
2021–2022


RISD Design Guild,
Typeface in use.
2022–2023

Shows

The 18th Shanghai  Youth Art Exhibition.
Liu Haisu Art Museum,
2025


Award 360 Exhibition.
Ramp坡,
2025


Blurring The Lines.
Kunstlerhaus Lauenburg,
2024


70th Annual Type Directors Club Exhibition.
Type Directors Club,
2024


Senior Invitational,
Woods-Gerry Gallery.
2022


RISD Triennial Show.
Woods-Gerry Gallery,
2022

Odds and Ends Art Book Fair.
Yale University, 2021

Unbound RISD Art Book Fair.
Fleet Library,
2020


Ambiguous Comedy Pop-up Show.
Shanghai Box Space, 
2020

RISD EFS Show (selected works)
RISD Waterman Building, 
2019

Education

University of  Southern California,
MFA in Design.
2024–2026

Rhode Island School of Design,
BFA in Graphic Design with 
Graduation Honor.
2018–2022

Brown University,
Cross-registration for East Asian Studies & Contemplative Studies.
2019, 2021


Teaching

University of Southern California, Teaching Assistantship (award).
Design Theory, course.
2026

Otis College of Art and Design, Guest Designer. One>>>Two>>>Three>>>More, workshop.
2025


ClassTao, Guest Designer. Post-Tool, workshop.
2024


Wed Studio, Lecturer.
Intro to Graphic Design,
Studio.
2022