Speaker Mariko Takagi

Mariko Takagi is a German-Japanese typographer, an author, and designer of books and an educator. She acts as an intermediary between the Western and Japanese cultures in general—and between Latin letters and Japanese/Chinese characters in particular. Takagi spent six years in Hong Kong, where she worked as an assistant professor in the academy of visual arts at Hong Kong Baptist University. In April 2017, Takagi moved to Kyoto to continue her work as an associate professor and researcher at Doshisha Women’s College of Liberal Arts.