Nam Nguyen

8 years young 🎂

Happy LNY! 🧧 The Year of the Fire Horse 🔥🐎 We’re celebrating by sweeping away old/bad energy to make space for the new/good. Want fresh Supervillain energy for this new year? We’ve made a short run of Fire Horse and LNY inspired SV Rose enamel pins and sticker sheet. The first 10 people who: • Like this post + comment a 🧧 to receive a lucky red envelope with the goods in the mail. *Winners DM’d for shipping info.* If you miss this giveaway, our Shopify store is now live and linked in our bio, where our LNY sticker sheets + enamel pins are available for purchase! 🛍️

The TripShot rebrand was a complete overhaul. First and foremost, we wanted to elevate the brand so it could sit alongside other major technology companies that also happened to be its clients. We didn’t aspire for TripShot to be just a service provider, but a peer. One with an equally bold voice and vision, as well as an electric visual system that would be impactful at scale—from app tile to a fleet of vehicles.

We wouldn’t exist without our founding client, @tripshotinc . In fact, we owe them for convincing our founder to turn down a job offer and start Supervillain instead. That was 2019, and we’re proud to still call them clients today. TripShot had already built a thriving tech company, but like many fast-growing startups, brand work had taken a back seat. After five years of incredible growth, they wanted a brand that reflected not just what they’d built, but also the bold, forward-thinking energy of their team, shaping the future of mobility access. Together, we created what we affectionately call “Comet,” a brand system and strategy that launched TripShot into an entirely new orbit in its category.

Cobbler has no shoes. Or something like that. Or at least that’s what I’ve always told myself. The reality is I’ve never been one to really share the latest thought, work, or accomplishment. Not because I wasn’t proud of them, but it’s because I generally prefer to move in silence. When we decided to start Supervillain I always knew the marketing, advocating, pushing of our own company was going to be one of the hardest things for me even though it’s precisely what I’ve been doing for others for the past 20 years. But Supervillain has become so much bigger than me and G. There’s a small troop of us (employees, partners, clients, supporters) now from the furthest West Coast of Hawaii to New York. And they deserve advocacy, celebration, recognition. With all that said, we’re going to slowly be rolling out some highlights from our past 6 years, along with sharing more of what we’re up to in general as my teammates @jaeyabayani @drrriana take the keys of @supervillain_sv socials. They’re going to help us make sure we’re telling our story. So give us a follow, show some love, and share in our hustle, ambition, pain and joy. Because, it’s always been about all of us, yeah, you too. And together we will go far, and we got our eyes beyond the stars. Here are some images from our very first days that I thought ya’ll might find fun.

We turned 6 this past September, and we made our annual team commemorative merch that put our 'John Hancock' on our chests. With gratitude, it was our way of signing off on year 5. But for us, it's become a symbol of remembering to protect the very things we signed up for. Supervillain was built on a dream—one that celebrates our differences and honors the nuance that makes us, us. Thank you always to our team, clients, partners, and supporters who continue to empower us to keep building a shady place for sunny people. We made a few extras of the sweaters and totes if ya'll are interested. Our store isn't up yet, so just let us know. Keep fighting for the dream. With love, for peace, The SV Family

The cutest Supervillain yet spotted at our Summer family outing to support our clients the @sjearthquakes

Lifetime pieces. 🌸🩶

The light in my apt was hitting just right so I was inspired to write. The first ‘book’ I ever remember reading on my own was a screenplay. I was 5, maybe 6, and the library was sometimes my babysitter. I roamed the shelves, staring at the spines, and I came across a title I could read with my limited vocabulary. And I was drawn to it, because I was in search of answers to a world that was already too damn brutal. ‘Do the Right Thing’, A Spike Lee Joint. I couldn’t understand every word then, but I pored over them anyway, along with the sketches, and it changed me. Because it made me feel seen. It shifted, confirmed, and constructed something in me. Right time, right place…and always has been every time I’ve revisted it over the past 35 or so years. And it means something different, yet all the same, all over again every single time. I’m unsure why I don’t read more screenplays, maybe because there’s just too much content out there. But I love them. I finally dove back in and bought one for the latest film to open me wide up, Past Lives. Just like I love a singer/songwriter, I deeply appreciate the writer/director. They give all of themselves to us in their creations, and it’s the greatest gift. @helloellephanta is a force. @a24 thanks for making something that lives on screen, streamed from the cloud, in my mind, in my heart, into an artifact I can hold, care for, and take my time with. So I can visit with again, at the right time and right place, which is every time I’ll pick it up. PS. Using Stay by Cat Power for the trailer was a goddamn cheat code and…I love you New York. See you soon.

Don’t show up empty handed.

Not often you get to see your campaign in 1000 drones. Congrats to @sjearthquakes on another major California Clasico #braceforimpact