[2] Fast Company named Vinh one of "The 50 Most Influential Designers in America" in September 2011.
[3] 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.
In 1998, he moved to New York City and began designing almost exclusively for the web and interactive media.
[6] 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".