Digital Arts Alumni Interview: Donny Truong ’01

May Zheng, a senior majoring in Digital Arts at La Salle University, reached out to me for an alumni interview.

Donny Truong graduated from La Salle University in 2001. In the 24 years since, he has been keeping busy as a designer, author, type consultant, and snowboard instructor.

Donny started at La Salle as a Communication major but then transferred to a different school to study Computer Science. When the new Digital Arts and Multimedia Design program at La Salle was announced, Donny returned to La Salle and completed the DART program with a minor Communication.

After graduation, Donny began searching for job opportunities using HigherEdJobs.com. He has been professionally designing and developing websites ever since. He is now a Director of Design and Web Services at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School, where he oversees the law school websites. This includes the main site and a network of 50 affiliated sites.

Donny maintains a freelance design practice and teaches part-time. He also advises type designers on Vietnamese diacritics, which means that he makes sure that Vietnamese words are rendered legibly and correctly positioned for native readers. He even wrote an e-book about this topic which can be read at vietnamesetypography.com.

Recently, Donny turned his snowboarding hobby into an instructing gig at Whitetail Resort.

See more of Donny’s work at visualgui.com and donnytruong.com.

Interview by May Zheng, ’25