Jyni Ong

Yolk Magazine, courtesy of Yolk’s founders

Jyni became a staff writer in March 2019 having previously joined the team as an editorial assistant in August 2018. She graduated from The Glasgow School of Art with a degree in Communication Design in 2017 and her previous roles include Glasgow Women’s Library designer in residence and The Glasgow School of Art’s Graduate Illustrator.

Jyni’s top picks from the past couple of month’s

Kachi-Buwa is a variable Katakana typeface expressing Japanese onomatopoeic expressions

Anime, graphic design and multiple narratives collide in Taipei-based illustrator Saitemiss’ work

“Absence in design is very important”: Karel Martens on paying attention to the things we don’t see

Who made the objects in your house? Ivy Li explores the vernacular visual language of Chinese migrant workers

The Pyte Foundry on the power of type design to fiddle “with the subconscious of the reader”

Phyllis Ma captures the curiosity of traveling with alternative travel diary

Conor Murgatroyd’s paintings celebrate the multiculturalism of Britain today

Dinamo gets a revamp and releases two new font families, ABC Maxi and ABC Diatype

Creative polymath Loreng on living in the southeast Asian Mecca of experimental arts, Yogyakarta

Based between Toronto and Beijing, Meat Studio creates work that bridges cultures

Gabriella Grimes showcases the vastness of queer identity highlighting that “it’s safe to be this way”

After 20 years in the industry, photographer Elise Dumontet questions the real meaning of beauty

Gilles de Brock on hand building a CNC to print graphic glazes on ceramic tiles in a highly original design story

Hoi Chan envelops a solitary sense of serenity in his delicate illustrations

Vier5 on the communicative and democratic role of graphic design

Illustrator Maïté Marque on why she loves to depict women who unashamedly “take up space”

Adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning strip, Welcome to the New World is a graphic novel detailing refugee life under Trump

Richard Noble on his latest film Wandaland and the similarities between animation and method acting

Ojo Agi explores ideas of home, identity and transnational kinship pertaining to the African diaspora post-1960

Julian Glander’s game Art Sqool is coming to Nintendo Switch

Delve into the utterly charming internal worlds of illustrator Glary Wu

Kachi-Buwa is a variable Katakana typeface expressing Japanese onomatopoeic expressions

Body Experimental Type visualises human movement through typography

“An identity can become expressive through the sheer use of typography”: New York’s Irvington Theater gets a rebrand

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