| michelle tsang |
| Michelle Tsang is a visual designer whose work investigates the speculative edges of language and its visual expression. Growing up as a multi-diasporic woman in Cantonese, Taiwanese and Vietnamese communities, she draws on layered cultural inheritances as a continual source of inspiration. Her practice spans typography, calligraphy, craft, and mixed media, often blurring boundaries between analogue and digital forms. With a focus on reimagining systems of communication, she creates experimental frameworks that reconfigure how meaning emerges, circulates and transforms. Through speculative design, she engages both ancestral traditions and contemporary technologies, weaving together past and future in ways that challenge assumptions about language and its limits. Her work resists fixed interpretation, instead inviting audiences to participate, imagine, and reconsider the possibilities of visual and cultural dialogue. @designmctsang |
'Wen 妏 is an experimental typographic system that reimagines the visual legacy of Chinese writing through a feminine and diasporic lens. The title Wen 妏 embodies the project's aim to reimagine what has been historically overlooked: 妏, formed from 女 (woman) and 文 (writing), is a character stripped of meaning and relegated to ornament. Drawing from traditional rhetoric and embodied knowledge, Wen translates the unseen textures of history into a speculative typographic system. Inspired by Li Qingzhao's spatial poetics, Wen treats written language as a tactile landscape, rewriting what could have been and what might still become.