Speaker Yong Ring

Yong Ring is a researcher and graphic designer from Malaysia. She holds a degree in Visual Communication Design from Tsinghua University and is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, University of Reading. Her research explores the intersection of book materiality and printing technologies between the English and Sinic world, with a focus on the printing practices of the London Missionary Society in coastal China and Southeast Asia (1800–1840s). She admires printed materials, marginal histories, and more recently intricate knitting patterns.