Born in Kobe, Japan. Grew up in Kobe, learning Shodō (Japanese calligraphy) from his mother. He studied and experimented with art by himself after high school.
Work
From 2019, he started to work as photographer model , in addition to his Shodō and clothes realisation. in 2021, he started to work as freelance designer in London, UK.
In 2019, he was in the last 5 finalists for the Mr. Gay Japan competition and gave some speech to try to inspire LGBTQ+ people in Japan to accept themselves as they are.
Aurélien
Childhood
Born in Strasbourg, France. Grew up learning violin and later on other celtic music instruments, in a music and teaching inspired familly.
Work
Graduated in Biotechnology, recieved his PhD in Biology in 2013. Worked as a researcher for several institutions: CONICET (Argentina) Max Planck (Germany) EMBL (Europe) RIKEN (Japan) and currently work for the Francis Crick institute, London, UK.
Science communication
After being asked by a famous german television show to collaborate on explaining science to children (cf. links), he started to get involved in communicating science to the public.
Akira & Aurélien
Akira & Aurélien met in Japan and started their story in February 2017. "We combine our style and ideas, to make some unique art and science."
