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 Bombay-bred and Brooklyn-based designer, writer & illustrator.

Studio MKH is just a fancier way to refer to myself in third person. In my former professional life, I was a lawyer.

Currently:
Fivestone Studios

Previously:
Marketwake
Régime des Fleurs
Made in NYC
Art Deco Mumbai

hellostudiomkh@gmail.com
LinkedIn
Instagram

recognition

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

Speaker, History of Graphic Design Symposium

Poster House [2024]

Pratt Circle Award
Pratt Institute [2024]

Speaker, HMHL Podcast Ex Lawyer Series
Happy Mind Happy Lawyer [2024]

Workshop Lead, Zine Making
Other Islands Book Fair [2024]

Marketing Fellow
Made in NYC [2023]

Acknowledgment, Opportunities and Challenges for Artificial Intelligence in India
ACM Conference — AI, Ethics & Society [2018]