Daijirou Oohara

Birthplace: Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Daijiro Ohara graduated from Musashino Art University in Tokyo, and started working independently in 2003. He is the principal of Omomma, a studio focused on lettering, illustration, motion graphics and art direction. Besides commissioned work for music videos, commercials, packaging and publications, he has also been actively engaged in self-initiated projects, searching for new perceptions of words and letters through exhibitions, workshops and fieldwork.

His installation “Typogravity” is an attempt to find the ur-form of letters in landscapes while his project “Riding on Characters” shows how the lettering on a skateboard may be altered by physical and environmental factors.His graphic series “Ridge Line” is the reconstructed mountain photography and trekking map and “TypogRAPy” is his performance with musician Shuta Hasunuma and rapper Illreme. His project “Hello Fukei” is a collection of haiku poetry, expressed via mobiles and illustrations.

Ohara was the recipient of the 2014 JAGDA New Designer Award and the 2014 Tokyo TDC Award.

(Source: Official Website)

Twitter: @omomma_