SHAWN SOH
CREATOR, DESIGNER & COMMUNITY BUILDER
About MeBuilding brand worlds and communities people want to be part of.
Raised in Singapore and shaped by ten years in London, I'm now based in Seoul, building a life around one idea: hope is something you practice, not something you wait for.
My work moves between storytelling, design, and community: Content through @plantbro_ that's honest about the hard parts and lands with people because of it. Design work through @studiosoh_ in experience design and social strategy for brands across UK and Europe. And community building through @enggusai the non-profit queer program I founded here in Seoul.
I build things people genuinely want to be part of, and I help brands do the same.
CreatorSEOUL-BASED CREATOR CRAFTING STORIES FOR A GLOBAL AUDIENCE.
I create storytelling-driven content on a simple belief: people connect with what's real.
For YSL, that meant a story about reinvention and starting again. For M.A.C., challenging gender norms in beauty. For Sephora, learning to love the skin you're already in. The brands might change but the thread that I use to craft stories from doesn't.
With 316K followers across Instagram and TikTok, and campaigns spanning beauty, lifestyle, fashion, travel, and hospitality, I work best with brands whose values match mine and it shows in the work that I do.
Selected Creator Projects
Total Followers316K
Instagram Followers201K
TikTok Followers115K
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Selected Media Highlights
Creator ServicesWhen I collaborate with brands, I look for one thing first: that our values match. It's what makes the content feel true to both of us, and it's what my audience has come to trust.
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Long-term partnerships with brands whose values match mine, built on trust with an audience that knows I don't say yes to everything.
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Story-first photo and video content, conceptualised, shot, and edited to a design standard, made to feel native to your brand and to mine.
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On-camera talent for campaigns, events, and activations across Seoul, Singapore, and beyond.
Designer – Founder of Studio SohBUILDING BRAND WORLDS PEOPLE WANT TO BE A PART OF
Through Studio Soh, my award-winning graphic design practice, I work with brands across UK and Europe on brand identity, experience design for events and activations, and social content strategy, all built to make people want to belong to something, not just scroll past it.
I believe graphic design has to go beyond a logo or a feed. Design is the quality bar for everything else I do. Whether it is a campaign, a talk, or a community event, the way I create, shoot, write, and present, all passes through the same filter.
Selected Design Projects
Visual Artist WHERE EXPERIMENTS IN THEATRE AND VISUAL ART TRAINED AN EYE FOR EVENT AND EXPERIENCE DESIGN
Before the content, campaigns and the community work, I studied at Central Saint Martins (2012–2015) and co-founded an OFFIES award-winning theatre company in London, Pigdog Productions (2015–2017).
Making strange, ambitious projects that taught me how images carry feeling, how a room becomes an experience, and how far an idea can go when you don't play it safe.
These days that work still lives on in the creative shoots I do through @plantbro_, and in my creative eye that everything else passes through.
Selected Visual Art Projects
Awards & Recognitions
Winner: Best Conference (2020), Micebook Awards
Winner: Technology & Telecoms Event of the Year (2020), C&IT Awards
Winner: Best Costume Designer (2017), Off-West End Awards
Nominated: 7 Off-West End Awards (2017)
Winner: Ones to Watch (2016), Blueprint
Winner: Creative Entrepreneur Award (2015 & 2016), University of the Arts London
Shortlist: Fashion Film Awards (2016), SHOWStudio
Media Highlights
1Granary: Shawn Soh Reimagining the World Within
Dazed & Confused: Watch the first analog snapchat in motion
Financial Times: Karagula, Styx, London — ‘A wild rollercoaster’
IdN Magazine: Magazine Feature, Singapore Tiles
Jaguar Magazine: Digital Native, Shawn Soh
Wired Magazine: This Photo Booth Takes Your Pic, Then Destroys It
Design ServicesI'm always looking to collaborate with brands and fellow creatives to create meaningful and innovative work together.
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Brand identities built from strategy, not decoration. I work with you to find what your brand actually stands for, then give it a visual world people recognise and remember.
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Immersive live events and brand activations, from concept to production. I've designed for Red Bull x Gorillaz, London Fashion Week, and the UK's largest tech festival. The goal is always the same: rooms people don't want to leave.
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Collaborations with stylists, photographers, and videographers on experimental visual work that pushes boundaries and tells strange, beautiful stories.
Community BuilderCOMMUNITY BUILDING & BRAND STRATEGY FOR PEOPLE WHO WANT MORE THAN AN AUDIENCE
I help brands and entrepreneurs turn their audiences into communities. Everything I bring to community strategy work comes from actually doing it: the marketing, programming and behind-the-scenes work of getting strangers to trust a room.
I founded Enggusai (2026–Present), a non-profit English-speaking queer community in Seoul, running in partnership with Chingusai, Korea's oldest LGBTQ+ advocacy organization. With sold out sessions, a waitlist of 180 people and the highest attendee ratings, and the program is growing session by session.
Alongside consultancy, I speak on community building, content creation, personal branding, and building a career by doing things scared, drawing on my work as an adjunct lecturer at LaSalle College of the Arts Singapore (2021–2024)and past engagements with Vogue, HubSpot and Singapore Management University.
I also volunteered as brand and content strategist for AWARE Singapore (2023–2024), advocating for gender equality.
Past Speaking Events & WorkshopsVogue Magazine: Creators & Identity-driven Content (SG)
HubSpot: Introvert Communication Styles (SG)
Singapore Management University: Momentum As A Student Entrepreneur (SG)
LaSalle College of the Arts: Starting Out as an Student Entrepreneur (SG)
Central Saint Martins: Resilience in an Entrepreneur (UK)
Chelsea College of the Arts: Fear as Inspiration (UK)
University of the Arts London: Kickstarting Your Business Idea (UK)
Community Building & Strategy Services-
Helping brands and organizations move from broadcasting at an audience to building genuine community, from strategy through to programming.
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Talks and workshops on queer joy, content creation, personal branding, and doing things scared, drawing on lived experience building community from zero.
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Creative strategy and content for advocacy organizations and purpose-led brands, including Chingusai in Korea and AWARE Singapore.