Meet the Artist
Georgina
Yeboah
aka. GGY, Interaction Designer, Digital Illustrator and Comic Artist
“I focus on interactivity within digital and physical spaces. I aim to create meaningful experiences for users through sensory-input data, customary tools, and complimentary visuals. I'm also a digital illustrator and I enjoy telling my stories through the art of comics.”
Georgina Yeboah (She/her) is based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and specializes in Digital Illustration, Interaction Design and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research. She holds a BFA in New Media from Ryerson University and an MDes in Digital Futures from OCAD University. Her research focuses on the nature of interactivity within digital and physical spaces. For her thesis, Yeboah investigated the application of user-inputs and outputs within the scenarios and environments they were placed in through sensors, monitors and visual components . She is also a comic artist and has been drawing before she could speak. She started creating comics around 6 or 7 and began posting her first pages in 2014. As of 2020, Yeboah is currently working on comics full-time and continuing her work on her second web-comic: Over 8 Miles. The comic is being hosted on Tapas and other web-comic platforms.
Ryerson University
New Media
Major Completed, 2015
Digital Illustration, Comic Art, Storytelling, Interaction Design, Context-Related Research