Speaker Theingi Thann

Theingi Thann is a designer whose practice spans art direction, visual communication, and filmmaking. Based in New York, she earned her BFA in Communication Design from Parsons School of Design and participated in the KBI Type Incubator at Stanford’s SILICON, where she developed a typeface inspired by Burmese weaving traditions in Inle Lake, exploring how material culture can inform typographic form.

She grew up in a trilingual household speaking Chinese, Burmese, and English, alongside other Sino-Tibetan languages spoken by her grandparents. Her interest in cultural preservation and visual storytelling was shaped by moving across Southeast Asia and documenting the stories, languages, and ephemera she encountered along the way.

Her work often explores how design can connect culture and community, with a particular focus on language, memory, and representation.