Typography and Gesture

The talk will explore how both typography—through letters, words, fonts, spacing, and visual structure—and gestures—through facial and bodily movements, interface cues, and screen animations—shape the flow of the viewer’s eye. Both are directional, intentional, and rhythmic, guiding perception and attention. By breaking, rerouting, or enhancing expected flows, we can play with visual rhythm to generate new narratives and meanings. These disruptions challenge how we read, see, and feel—opening unfamiliar paths through language, movement, and design.

This talk is scheduled to take place as part of the main Typographics conference. Conference registration is required to attend in person.

About Yehwan Song

Yehwan Song is a Korean-born artist, graphic designer. She designs and develops experimental websites, installations and interactive graphics driven by content structure instead of static templates and web design conventions. Through her projects, she tries to flip the general understanding of web design and subvert common user-experience behaviors, which oversimplify users’ behavior. She pursues diversity above consistency and efficiency.

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