Sophea Ton
Graphic Designer
Phnom Penh
ααααΆααSix signs,
six businesses
A logo isn’t a picture. It’s something you hang β over a door, across an apron, around a paper cup. I draw marks that survive all three. Tap or hover a name to switch it on.
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Premium Khmer
Coffee
Logo & WordmarkKhmer LetteringPackagingMerchandiseSignage
Then it left my screen. A counter somewhere in Cambodia, a plastic cup, and a queue of people who will never know a designer was involved. That is the part I work for.
The hardest brief I have drawn. I turned a Khmer temple spire into the steam coming off a cup, sat it on a lotus pedestal and wrapped it in kbach flame-work β all in one unbroken gold line, so it holds on foil, on embroidery, on a screen-print and on a cheap plastic cup. I set the Khmer and the Latin at equal weight. Neither one is a translation of the other.
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Omega Street Food
Logo & WordmarkSignagePackagingUniform
Brush,
not type
01 / 04Up on the street
02 / 04Into your hand
03 / 04Onto the cook
04 / 04Everywhere else in here my line is exact. On this one I broke it on purpose. I dragged the letters with a brush and left them rough and slightly out of register β a sign painted fast, because the food is fast β then locked the whole thing inside a hard orange keyline so it still reads from across the street. Loud takes discipline.
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Sara Blossom
Logo & MonogramPackagingStationeryKhmer Lettering
I wanted a monogram that opens
like the flower it is made of.
Up close
αααα’α·αA peony, a leaf and an interlocked S Β· B, drawn as one continuous rose-gold contour. That single line is what lets me foil it, deboss it into leather, or drop it to 9 mm on the shoulder of a dropper bottle without losing a petal. I set the Khmer name at the same weight as the Latin β this is a Cambodian brand, and its own script is never the small print.
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H Skincare
Logo & WordmarkSignageUniformInterior Graphics
Bring the light
Move your cursor across the tableScroll β the light follows you downThe mark
Lightbox β entrance
Deboss β dark leather
Reception wall
Uniform
One line,
one faceBeauty & Laser
A clinic does not need to shout, so I did not. One unbroken line draws a profile and then becomes the H β no illustration, no gradient, no second idea. After that I let the materials talk: brushed metal, deboss, thread, light. It is the quietest thing I have made and probably the most confident.
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Park Ave Bagelry
Logo & BadgeStorefrontSignageSticker
Drawn as a sticker
before it was
ever a logo
I keylined every element β the skyline, the slab lettering, the bagel, the border, and the border around the border β because it was built to be cut out. I drew the die-line first and grew the composition inward from it. It is the one piece here I let be funny, and the humour is doing real work: you will remember which bagel shop this is.
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MaMa Bear
Logo & CharacterLabelSignageSticker
One arm around a smaller bear.
That was the whole brief,
and it is the whole logo.
Soft is harder than it looks β there is nowhere to hide. One stroke weight, flat colour, no shading, four warm tans. I drew it to hold up shrunk onto a bottle label and to not fall apart blown up into a lit sign. Nothing here is trying to be clever. It only has to feel like being looked after.
“I love Jesus and my family. My goal is to have a happy family.”Sophea Ton β in his own words
I am not an artist with a manifesto. I am the person a small business calls when it needs a face.
Six clients, six worlds that look nothing alike β gold temple line-work, a brush-dragged street sign, a rose-gold peony, a single-stroke clinical profile, an American die-cut badge, a bear holding her cub. What runs underneath all of them is the same three things: one continuous line, symmetry about a vertical axis, and Khmer and Latin treated as equals.
I work as M K T Design out of Phnom Penh and trained at ACT, the Academy of Careers and Technology. Plainly: I work to your brief, I have been doing this for several years, and I can make most of what a business needs printed, hung, worn or wrapped.
What I can make
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something
Tell me what it goes on β a door, a bag, a shirt, a cup β and I will draw the line that has to survive all of them. Telegram is the fastest way to reach me.