Tonya A. Meyrick is a creative practitioner, designer and academic based in Geelong, Australia. Her research focuses on the intersections and boundaries of typography, technology, digital engagement and design. Within these modes, ideas of liminality, dislocation and altered representations of place are handled as they relate to the perception of memories, theories of decay and sites of experience. Tonya develops static and moving mark-making, graphic and image-based proposals salvaged from articles experienced in the everyday such as street and road signage, building artefacts, textures, maps, and GPS coordinates. By re-examining these physical and digital assets Tonya engages emerging ideas performed for diverse audiences allowing cross platform narratives to reach audiences in new ways and move beyond established institutional traditions. Tonya’s creative research has been exhibited in Australia, New Zealand, Kuwait and the UK.

In her day job, Tonya is a Senior Lecturer in Screen & Design, Head of Design and Course Director of the Bachelor Design - Communication Design, Animation Design and Interactive Design with Deakin University, Australia. Tonya is a research fellow with the Deakin Motion Lab and the Asian Media and Cultural Studies Network at Deakin University; and an elected member of the International Society of Typography Designers, board member of Creative Geelong and co-director of the Geelong Design Collective. As well, Tonya represents Deakin University at the International Council of Design within the Design Educators Group. She educates on typography, studio practice and design pedagogy and has worked as a communication designer and design consultant for over 20 years in collaboration with national and international clients. Tonya has spoken internationally on typography, branding and design in Australia, New Zealand, Greece, China, Japan, Kuwait and the UK.

In Case of Type openly welcomes co-collaborators, co-conspirators and like-minded souls to work together on helping to shape our understanding of the social and cultural performance of typography in contemporary culture and to work together on social design for positive change.

Get in touch incaseoftype@gmail.com

Acknowledgements to:

Zoë Macfarlane for working together on the Geelong Art Centre Project

Anne Scott Wilson for working together on the Geelong Art Centre Project

Madi Moorhead for the incaseoftype branding guidelines

Laura Penny for collaborating and designing the ‘Beyond the Baseline- Content Analysis Findings’, graphics and presentation

Kiana Taylor for webmistressing on the incaseoftype.org website