Birthplace: Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Daijiro Ohara is a Tokyo-based designer and art director best known for his experimental approach to typography and lettering. After graduating from Musashino Art University, he struck out on his own in 2003 and eventually founded Omomma, a studio that handles everything from motion graphics and illustration to art direction across music videos, commercials, and publications.
What sets Ohara apart is his obsession with finding meaning in letters themselves. He's constantly pushing beyond typical design work through exhibitions, workshops, and fieldwork—basically, he's always hunting for fresh ways to think about words and how they exist in physical space. His installation "Typogravity" explores this by searching for the raw, fundamental forms of letters hidden within landscapes. Another project, "Riding on Characters," takes skateboard lettering and documents how it warps and changes through actual use and environmental wear. "Ridge Line" remixes mountain photography with trekking maps into abstract graphic work, while "TypogRAPy" is a full-on performance piece he created with musician Shuta Hasunuma and rapper Illreme. He's also made "Hello Fukei," a collection of haiku poetry presented through mobile illustrations.
His work earned him recognition early on—he took home both the 2014 JAGDA New Designer Award and the 2014 Tokyo TDC Award.
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