Speakers

Joyce Yee
Joyce is a practising designer and researcher in New Media design. She has worked on a number of design consultancy and research projects for the last two and a half years at the Centre for Design Research, Northumbria University in the United Kingdom. Prior to this, she has worked as a graphic designer and Typography lecturer for four years in Malaysia. She completed her MA in Visual Communication at London's Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design. Her final thesis was about repositioning the role of letterforms in the face of technological change. Joyce is currently pursuing a part-time PhD degree at Northumbria University, on developing a practice-led framework for the application of typography in screen-based interactive media. She recently presented a paper on the subject of Literature Mapping as part of her PhD investigation at the fifth European Academy of Design (EAD) conference in Barcelona.
The Typographic Dilemma: Reconciling the old with the new using a cross-disciplinary typographic framework