About Thy Hà

I’m Thy Hà (she/her), but you can also call me Tee. I’m a Vietnamese UX/UI designer, type designer, and Webflow developer, I was born and raised in Sài Gòn, Việt Nam and am now based in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia.
During the day, I design (and sometimes build) websites for the education, culture, non-profit, public, and tech sectors. At night, through my practice, Mai Type, I collaborate with type foundries and designers to develop Vietnamese-localised typefaces and bridge cultural gaps in a Western-centric industry.
My work explores how cultural identity, digital media, and typographic history can come together to create inclusive, context-rich designs that challenge traditional paradigms.
I'm also a proud member of Lưu Chữ and Counter Forms. Right now, I’m exploring why Cooper Black became a national phenomenon in Vietnam. Somehow, it just did.
- Same, same but different (Counter Forms)
- Forward to the Past (Further Reading)
- The Past is the Future (Disegno Journal #37)
- Amalgam Journal
- Zine Series: The Southeast Asian Types No.1 (Further Reading)
- CÂYlendar 2024 (Đùm Bọc)
- 2024 — Bet your bottom đồng: Decoding Typography of Vietnamese Lottery Tickets and Interpreting Vietnamese Handwriting with Đông-Trúc Nguyễn & Lưu Chữ at TypeLab 2024
- 2024 — Type, Tradition, and Transformation: Unfolding the Narrative of Vietnamese Typography at ATypI Brisbane 2024
- 2024 — My journey in type at Tāmaki Type Club
- 2024 — Fall Speaker Series: Counter Forms at RISD's Graphic Design
- 2023 — Counter Forms Launch Panel at Melbourne Art Book Fair 2023
- 2022 — Globetrotting with Type (Mesoscale Discussions Series) at RMIT University, Master of Communication Design