Hirisha Mehta came from India 10 years ago to study design in Tokyo. She is now the Head of Design at the Kyoto Journal, an award-winning magazine sharing artistic and cultural insights all across Asia.

Hirisha's background includes experiences designing for the Harry Potter or the Minions franchises at Universal Studios Japan, a very popular attraction park located in Osaka.

Fun fact, she also created her own Japanese typeface, called Indo-Wa, mixing Japanese and Indian characters. If you know a bit about font design, creating a full typeface is a massive amount of work and is really really impressive.

In this very rich episode, we discuss typography, scripts, Japanese design, the city of Kyoto as a creative & cultural hub, architecture and local dialects like Osaka-ben.

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Japan Life StoriesBy Paul GaumerSep 08, 2023