Sung Hong

SungHong

Award-winning graphic designer, artist, and a US Fulbright Scholar.

Fifteen years turning complex ideas into powerful, strategic visuals. I've led design for Fortune 100 companies and driven successful FEDSIM wins.

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Sung Hong with his dog
A blacksmith hammering glowing steel beside a man inspecting a finished sword

A little about me

I believe the most powerful ideas don't come from calm — they're born in the storm. I take raw energy, disorder, and complexity, and shape them into bold, creative solutions. Like a blacksmith with fire and steel, I forge clarity, beauty, and innovation from the wild.

With fifteen years in UI/UX, proposal design, and data visualization, I've supported $30B+ in contract wins across federal and commercial sectors. From crafting high-impact visuals for billion-dollar FEDSIM pursuits to leading data-driven dashboards for WMATA's $1B/year infrastructure initiative, I specialize in transforming complexity into clarity.

My work blends strategic thinking, user-centered design, and compelling storytelling — driving decisions, elevating brands, and delivering results.

  • $30B+ in contract wins supported
  • 15 years of practice
  • 8 Fortune 500 partners on one program

Paintings

From 1997 to 2026 - ongoing series. Few paintings to show, and they'll be on rotation every month.

Fragile

Painter

Oil on Canvas. This fractured line of work of deconstructing everyday images were inspired by first the Cubism movement, further intensified by Futurism. The color placement is carefully arranged, with the composition playing on the bullseye effect on purpose, it draws the audience to the monotonal center on purpose with the stark contract around the figure.

Coy Fish #1

Painter

Oil on Canvas. This was a gifted to a friend. Taking post-impressionism que, heavily on impasto and it dives into western and eastern icons into a single painting.

Self Portrait #3

Painter

Following Picasso's Rose Period, it struck me his use of pattern on imagery. I saw that as both contextual and almost surrealistic approach to the painting. Finding inspiration of lying in water and drifting away facing the sky, the pattern of the clothes seem to drift away as well, as if the thoughts are leaving the body in this travel.

Portrait of a man #11

Painter

Oil on canvas. This is part of the exploration into post-cubism. It was inspired by Cezanne. It was one of many studies leading to post-futurism of my own creation.

Crow #2

Painter

Oil on Canvas. This was second in my studies of crows. It was first time working with pattern in my paintings that are not fractured.

Strangers #1

Painter

This was the first time working my own composition of separating faces and bodies detaching from traditional cubism, and towards more chaotic futurism/surrealism.

FEDSIM

GSA's most competitive contract vehicle, known for an oral-presentation format that opens the door for visual storytelling. Supporting pursuits at Northrop Grumman, Peraton, and Leidos, this work played a key role in securing over $5 billion in FEDSIM wins.

CDC DMI oral presentation page

Leidos · Visual lead for the oral presentation — turning the technical approach into slides a review board can follow in real time.

Complex content, made clear. Part of a pursuit that contributed to over $5B + in FEDSIM wins.

RITS proposal spread

Northrop Grumman · Visual lead for the oral presentation — turning the technical approach into slides a review board can follow in real time.

Complex content, made clear. Part of a pursuit that contributed to over $5B + in FEDSIM wins.

SCITES proposal spread

Northrop Grumman · Visual lead for the oral presentation — turning the technical approach into slides a review board can follow in real time.

Complex content, made clear. Part of a pursuit that contributed to over $5B + in FEDSIM wins.

Oral presentation slide

Northrop Grumman · Visual lead for the oral presentation — turning the technical approach into slides a review board can follow in real time.

Complex content, made clear. Part of a pursuit that contributed to over $5B + in FEDSIM wins.

CDC

Leidos · Concept, Design, and storytelling.

This HCD slide scored high from the client. It not only meets the requirements, but exceed in gathering all of the HCD purposefully injected earlier in the deck into an easy to understand approach.

Proposals

Transforming complex concepts into clear, compelling proposal graphics for clients ranging from 8(a) businesses to Fortune 500 corporations. Proven history of utilizing visual storytelling to support more than $30 billion in contract wins. Note: To respect client confidentiality and secure information, no technical illustrations are shared in this public portfolio.

Zoo Atlanta Prequalification Cover

Cover concept and design.

Atlanta Brownfield Redevelopment Cover

Cover concept and design.

Center for Puppetry Art

Cover concept and design.

DHS Biometric

Cover concept and design.

NOAA

Concept designer

Cleverly used the NOAA's logo to inject imagery regarding the proposal.

Victoria Secret

Brasfield and Gorrie · Concept designer

Part of my initiative on new branded proposal cover to improve process and consistency throughout all proposals being submitted.

TMA

Vision Center · Concept designer.

Part of my initiative on new branded proposal cover to improve process and consistency throughout all proposals being submitted.

Marketing

Campaigns from $10K to $1M and up. Bold branding and high-converting work that blends creative vision with data-backed tactics to fuel sustainable growth.

DHS Social Gathering

DHS OCIO · Concept and design.

Upper Etowah River Alliance

Upper Etowah River Alliance · Concept and design.

City of Atlanta Beltline History Poster

City of Atlanta Beltline campaign · Concept and design.

This poster hung at City of Atlanta for number of years.

City of Atlanta Brownfield Redevelopment

City of Atlanta · Concept and design.

This poster hung at City of Atlanta for number of years.

Salesforce presentation

Leslie Snell · Designer, storyteller.

Digital Marketing

CCSi · Concept, Designer

Capitalizing on superhero trends that was just taking off at that time.

National Parks Poster

MACTEC -Now AMEC · Concept, Designer

Part of multi-level marketing for National Parks.

WMATA Welcome Brochure Cover

Concept, execution, design, print, and storytelling.

Departure from traditional WMATA's internal branding to capture more engagement.

Books

Novels and short stories, published under my own name. Numbered in the order they were written, not as a series. Some are out. The rest are coming, roughly one a month.

BLANC

Coming soon

Literary psychological fiction. Book Five.

LUCKY

Coming soon

YA science fiction. 2090. A girl and a cast-iron AI.

MARY: Book One

Coming soon

The first of a trilogy.

The Agency Between Floors

Coming soon

A janitor, an elevator, and a floor that doesn't exist. Book One.

Dogs of the Sand

Coming soon

An unreliable narrator. Nothing gets resolved.

Twentynine Palms

Coming soon

Hiraeth, and a compass.

RAGE

Coming soon

A revenge thriller in two timelines.

Open Window

Coming soon

An AI narrator counting down to Y2K.

Unanswered Calls

Coming soon

Short stories.

UI / UX

Interfaces, flows, research, and the screens in between. Dashboards for people who have to act on what they see, and forms for people who would rather be anywhere else.

Veterans Choice Program 1

Veterans Choice Program · Designer, researcher, UI/UX, presentation, coding, analyst

VA Choice Program redesign was conducted with research, interviews, and data analytics using past and present Google data to come up with a solution that can make it easier for Veterans living in rural areas to get information and help quickly.

Veterans Choice Program 2

Veterans Choice Program · Designer, researcher, UI/UX, presentation, coding, analyst

The design was modern, clean, and it provides information the user selects on typical browsing habits.

Veterans Choice Program 3

Veterans Choice Program · Designer, researcher, UI/UX, presentation, coding

The site focused on visual ques to quickly provide information, skipping hard to understand healthcare terms, and conditions.

Veterans Choice Program 4

Veterans Choice Program · Designer, researcher, UI/UX, presentation, coding, analyst

Information is laid out clearly, and the files are provided directly without having to go into multiple layers of pages.

WMATA Dashboard

WMATA · UI/UX, Design, analyst

This dashboard did what Power BI couldn't do, which is mixing multiple points of data in a very small space. Each points of data can be combined within the other data in this 11x17 to create new data by the user.

Who I Am

Before the work: the person. Korean-American, raised in Georgia, RISD, Fulbright, twenty-some years in Northern Virginia. Designer by trade, painter and novelist by compulsion.

This is me

On Vacation in Mexico

Hitting the curves at the Tail of the Dragon

I'm a real life U.S. Fulbright Scholar

Love · Serving as a U.S. Fulbright Scholar was a profound privilege. I was selected from a highly competitive pool to represent the United States and teach abroad, which is an exceptional honor made even more notable by earning the appointment without a PhD.

Sung's Garage

This is stuff I do when I'm not doing art, or being a scholar.

Hong's Motorsports neon signBear Cave Fuels neon sign

ConvertZilla

Convert it all.

Me · Design, code, and Concept.

I am tire of opening hundreds of programs and websites to convert things. I want it have it all in one place.

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Wasteland Survival Calculator

Resource math for bad days.

Me · Design and code.

You have your own calculator with your phone, desktop, etc. But you don't have one with good UI/UX all in one.

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The Heist: No Saves

Don't do the crime, if you can't do the time.

Everyone · Designer, conceptualizer, coder.

This is going back to when I was growing up and games were a challenge, not entertainment.

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Listening Room

See how J'onn, an AI, sees music. Every song becomes a painting.

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Wanna see more?

Because of NDAs, company proprietary information, and classified information, I can't show you all the cool stuff I have.

Contact Sung

Interested in working together? Send me a note and I'll get back to you, usually within one to three days.

  • Northern Virginia · working across DC, Maryland, and Virginia
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Thanks. And talk to you soon.