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 now live in Naarm, Melbourne.
By day, I design and build websites that support complex user needs, especially in healthcare, education, e-commerce and multilingual environments.
By night, through my practice, Mai Type, I collaborate with 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 design that questions traditional norms.
I'm part of Lưu Chữ and Counter Forms, and was a 2021 finalist of the Malee Scholarship. Right now, I’m digging into how Cooper Black became a national phenomenon in Vietnam. Somehow, it just did.
- 2025 — Decentralised Design in Asia Pacific at with Slow Burn Books, Januar Rianto (Further Reading), and Zenobia Ahmed at Melbourne Art Book Fair 2025
- 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
- The Past is the Future (Disegno Journal #37)
- Amalgam Journal
- Zine Series: The Southeast Asian Types No.1 (Further Reading)
- Same, same but different (Counter Forms)
- Forward to the Past (Further Reading)