Portrait of a woman with dark hair pulled back, wearing black glasses, gold hoop earrings, and a light blue tshirt.

Hi! I'm Maulika K Hegde —
a Brooklyn-based + Bombay-bred designer, writer + illustrator.

Studio MKH is my creative practice. In my former professional life, I was a lawyer.

Currently
Fivestone Studios

Previously
Marketwake
Régime des Fleurs
Made in NYC
Art Deco Mumbai

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RECOGNITION
Speaker, TypeCon 2026
Society of Typographic Aficionados

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Speaker, TypeLab
2026
Typographics, The Cooper Union

Incubatee, Donald Knuth & Charles Bigelow Type Design Incubator 2026
SILICON @ Stanford University
+ Words of Type
+ Letterform Archive

Society of Typographic Arts 2025
typeSTAr [1] [2] [3]

Speaker, History in Two Dimensions: History of Graphic Design Student Symposium 2024
Poster House

Pratt Circle Award 2024
Pratt Institute

Workshop Lead 2024
Zine Making, Other Islands Book Fair
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Marketing Fellow 2023
Made in NYC
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Acknowledgment, Opportunities & Challenges for AI in India 2018
ACM Conference AI, Ethics & Society‍