About the Artist

Jesvin Yeo, who trained at Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design in London, is a multidisciplinary designer, educator and researcher based in Asia. Her research and design interests relate to the historical and contemporary cultural changes in the areas of “Asian Material Culture”, “Singapore Studies” and “Typography”. She investigates the intersection of cultural elements and motivation, as well as experiment with communication through visual and technology. As the foundation of her research, Jesvin employs design as a means for understanding, examining and critiquing the world around her. More specifically, she believes that design questions the social, cultural, historical, technological and formal norms that surround us daily. Jesvin design work has been published in several design magazines and books, such as Applied Typography 22, Wallpaper*, How Magazine, Letterheads & Business Cards 2, Graphic Design 3, and The Design Journal.

Jesvin is the author of art books: ‘Negotiating symbols across time and place’, ‘Visual/Senses’ and ‘Choi!Touchwood!’. Jesvin also serves as a Vice Chair at Singapore Society of Asian Studies, as well as an advisory member of the CE Advisory Committee at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore. Jesvin is one of the organizers of Women in Photography Symposium 2014 and is active in the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), serving as the Chair (Poster) and a committee member in Special Interest Group on the Design of Communication (SIGDOC) Conferences. Jesvin also served as an associate editor of six international journals on Design Education, Design Principles & Practices, Book Design and Humanities.

Jesvin’s research work has been published internationally, including journal article, conference paper and book, in the areas of Singapore cultures, typography and book design. Her work has also been exhibited at galleries and Museums in Berlin, London, Washington D.C., Atlanta, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Beijing. Among other international design awards she received are the Red Dot Award (Communication Design), A’ Design Award, How International Design Awards and iF Communication Design Award.