Index - Selected Works
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Dan’s Diner
Kafe Koji
Padel Place
Dan’s Burgers
In Praise of Hands
Human Rhythms (Print)
Human Rhythms (Web)
The Metaphor for Heavenly Paradise
Memories of a Dish
Tanah
Air
Desire in a Bowl of Rice
We shall meet at our demise...
when is a selfie no longer a selfie? 
SMILE! YOU ARE BEING RECORDED

Jakarta New York

ARCHIVES AND ARTICHOKES began as a coincidence of alliteration—a nom de plume for myself. Call it manifestation or foreshadowing, but throughout my time at Parsons School of Design, I became increasingly interested in archives: printed matter, publications, and the ways knowledge is preserved and circulated. Concurrently, my practice gravitated towards food as a cultural and historical subject, which culminated in my undergraduate thesis, Perpetually, In Fermentation.
The studio's name reflects these two ongoing interests.
ARCHIVES
represents research, reading, and writing. It is the thread that connects design to inquiry. Besides client work, we (Kiara, Krisanda, and Putrilia—all one person) are currently developing Reading as a Map (title in progress), a publication exploring memory studies, reading, and annotations.
ARTICHOKES
represent food and what can bring people together around a table. More broadly, it stands for the commercial world in which design operates. Perhaps fittingly, the process of design is similar to an artichoke, layered with increasing complexity as it is peeled back.

Today, we (as in the singular person, Kiara): 
  1. develop visual identities and brand systems for clients across different fields,
  2. run Kafe Koji,
  3. work part-time at Pears,
  4. read far too many books,
  5. étudier le français,
  6. painting,
  7. heavily considering a master’s in museology in France,
  8. and always seeking different ways of learning.

The studio exists at the intersection of research and commercial, art and design, the tangible and intangible, the physical and the screen, archives and artichokes.

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01.Dan’s Diner

Jakarta, Indonesia
2025-2026
Identity & Branding
Illustration
Instagram 🔗

COMING SOON

02.Kafe Koji

Jakarta, Indonesia
2026

Identity & Branding
Illustration

Coffee shop
Instagram 🔗
Kafe Koji is inspired by my extremely shy and introverted cat, the Fall in New York, and my former apartment. The design and menu of Kafe Koji draw from memories of an apartment filled with the smell of coffee, yellow window sills, wood, and mornings spent experimenting with food and drinks.
The interiors reflect Koji not in form, but in feeling — through earthy tones, soft contrasts, and feeling like a cat finding the sunniest corner of a room.


1/3    Kafe Koji — Identity & Branding, Illustration
2/3    Kafe Koji — Identity & Branding, Illustration
3/3    Kafe Koji — Identity & Branding, Illustration
03.Padel Place

Jakarta, Indonesia
2025

Logo Design

Lifestyle
The Padel Place logo communicates motion. The ball icon references how it moves through space and interacts with the court, and the layered lines help create a sense of depth and repetition. It echoes the sport's pace and continuous rally, while also hinting at architectural elements such as court lines and net structures. This gives the icon more structural quality rather than it feeling purely illustrative.

1/2    Padel Place — Logo Design
2/2    Padel Place — Logo Design
04.Dan’s Burgers


Jakarta, Indonesia
2025
Website Design
Copywriting

Restaurant
Live site 🔗

Dan’s Burgers’ visual identity emerged through numerous design iterations marked by inconsistencies that, over time, formed a language of their own. Translating this into a website meant developing a flexible typographic system that could hold variation while remaining coherent, and align with the brand’s evolving future materials.

The site consists of seven custom-built pages, fully responsive across screen sizes. I designed and built the website and led the copywriting to establish a clear, clean system that supports both content clarity and brand character.


1/3    Dan’s Burgers 1/2 — Website Design
2/3    Dan’s Burgers — Website Design
3/3   Dan’s Burgers — Website Design
05.In Praise of Hands

New York, NY
2024
Publication

4.5 inches × 6 inchesScanned book 🔗

In Praise of Hands is a coptic-stitch-bound book featuring cropped images of hands from well-known paintings and sculptures. It’s an invitation to re-examine gestural expressions and intentions when they are isolated from their original context. They are organized through three categories: In Conversation, Yearning, and In Solitude, and are accompanied by poignant essays and poems. The book cover is made of laser-cut wood and assembled with hinges. They mimic two hands in prayer and act as decorative bookends.

1/3 In Praise of Hands: A Handbook of Gestural Images — Publication
2/3 In Praise of Hands: A Handbook of Gestural Images — Publication
3 /3 In Praise of Hands: A Handbook of Gestural Images — Publication
06.Human Rhythms 

New York, NY
2022-2025
Website Design

4.5 inches × 6 inches
Plywood, linen paper

Prompted by the idea of focusing on a generative topic, Human Rhythms explores how sound can be represented visually on paper. It is a collection of  “musical compositions” around Banker St., Brooklyn at ten in the morning between November 3 to November 10, 2022. The book and its system is heavily inspired by a standard musical composition book, except it is mathematically divided into more grids to denote 30-second intervals. The sounds extracted from the 7-day period reflects two separate data sets; outside happenings and neighbors’ activities. Additionally, the ambiguity of this orchestra of sounds do not give an understanding of where it reverberates spatially. Each day also produces a statistical overview that further quantifies how many seconds each sound was present throughout the day. 

1/3 Human Rhythms — Publication
2/3 Human Rhythms — Publication
3/3 Human Rhythms — Publication
07.Human Rhythms 


New York, NY
2022-2025
Website Design
Coding

Live site 🔗

I designed and coded a mobile-only interactive website where icons and their corresponding sounds are triggered by touch. Users can tap anywhere on the screen—even simultaneously in multiple spots—with each interaction causing an image and sound to appear in unison. The longer the screen is pressed, the larger the image grows; releasing the touch stops both the sound and the visual expansion. This rendition explores a more abstract composition unlike its physical counterpart.

1/4 Human Rhythms — Website Design & Coding
2/4 Human Rhythms — Website Design & Coding
3/4 Human Rhythms — Website Design & Coding
4/4 Human Rhythms — Website Design & Coding
08.Metaphor for Heavenly Paradise

New York, NY
2021
Publication

15 inches × 5.5 inches
Softcover

A 116-page book exploring the philosophy and history of gardening in Islam. While religious texts are often associated with serif fonts and calligraphy, I opted for a more contemporary, almost stark approach—one that carries the weight and presence of a sacred text while remaining accessible and unassuming. Traditionally, the Holy Qur’an is designed at 7.8” x 5.5” for ease of holding, recitation, and navigation. In contrast, this book adopts a vertical format with tight margins and Arial Narrow as its main typeface, elongating the page to feel imposing yet utilitarian. I imagine it as something that could slip into a back pocket, carried while gardening.

1/2 Metaphor for Heavenly Paradise — Publication
2/2 Metaphor for Heavenly Paradise — Publication
09.Memories of a Dish

New York, NY
2024

Publication

4.5 inches × 7 inches
Live site 🔗
A do-si-do, spiral-bound comparative cookbook featuring menus interpreted through Dutch and Indonesian cooking traditions. Printed with the risograph, the book showcases four different colored inks to differentiate between the two nationalities. Additionally, the book features bookmarks to indicate which menu is vegetable/ beef/chicken/fish-based. The recipes are written in Dutch and Bahasa Indonesia, and include an English translation beneath each line of text to serve as a subtitle.

1/3 Memories of a Dish — Publication
2/3 Memories of a Dish — Publication
3/3 Memories of a Dish — Publication
10.Tanah Air

Jakarta, Indonesia
2025
Identity & Branding

Restaurant

A restaurant that celebrates a playful take on Indonesian home cooking. It offers a fresh perspective on familiar dishes by experimenting with ingredients and presentation, showing that food can be beautiful without adopting the formality of fine dining—while remaining accessible to all. Although the name traditionally means “homeland,” the branding draws instead from its literal translation, “land” and “water.” `This reinterpretation is meant to inspire a vibrant identity that mirrors the creativity of its food.

1/3 Tanah Air — Identity & Branding
2/3 Tanah Air — Identity & Branding
3/3 Tanah Air — Identity & Branding
11.Desire in a Bowl of Rice



Jakarta, Indonesia
2024
Performance
Website Design
Coding

Live site 🔗

A conditionally designed lunch experience involving five participants from various backgrounds. Participants ultimately received varying amounts of food on their plates, as their portions of Dutch cuisine were directly tied to their ability to engage with prompts exploring class, privilege, and historical narratives. The desktop-only website acts as an archive of the entire recorded experience, layered with multiple timestamps that serve as navigational markers. These timestamps highlight key moments, guiding the audience through the questions I posed, along with my own reflections and commentary. Users can choose to engage with the documentation in a linear progression or jump between moments I’ve marked as significant, shaping their own path through the narrative.

1/1 Desire in a Bowl of Rice — Performance, Website Design
12.We shall meet at our demise...


New York, NY
2022
Website Design
Coding

Live site 🔗 

Inspired by Nam June Paik’s commentary on technology, this website depicts the last page of the Internet. While several of Paik’s works involve physical screens, “We shall meet at our demise...” treats window screens as a form of overgrown websites and moments of tension. The website features 103 clickable buttons that mimic the endless black hole of hyperlinks on the Internet, and some un-clickable buttons to represent broken links. The curated information displayed here exemplifies repetition versus identity formation, where images, videos, and writings depict nihilistic and existentialist qualms.

This technological critique also serves as the antithesis of the Voyager Golden Record— whereas the Record was a testament to human creativity and achievement, this website highlights destruction as the dominant narrative. Instead of an optimistic archive, it reflects a world where meaning is eroded by excess, and technology becomes a vessel for both (dis)connection and collapse. The website is based on a growing archive on are.na.

1/6 We shall meet at our demise... — Website Design, Coding
2/6 We shall meet at our demise... — Website Design, Coding
3/6 We shall meet at our demise... — Website Design, Coding
4/6 We shall meet at our demise... — Website Design, Coding
5/6 We shall meet at our demise... — Website Design, Coding
6/6 We shall meet at our demise... — Website Design, Coding
13.when is a selfie no longer a selfie?


New York, NY
2023
Performance
Publication

11 inches × 17 inchesDocumentation on are.na 🔗 

The first part of a two-series documentation of surveillance. Intially, the content followed a generative ruleset, wherein I would take a picture of myself in every reflective surface intended for surveillance. However, throughout the process of content-gathering, I started to question the line between ownership and the many categorizations of surveillance. The layout of the book is informed through print.are.na. The book is printed on craft and red paper and is bound together using cable zip ties.

1/6 when is a selfie no longer a selfie? — Performance, publication
2/6 when is a selfie no longer a selfie? — Performance, publication
3/6 when is a selfie no longer a selfie? — Performance, publication
4/6 when is a selfie no longer a selfie? — Performance, publication
5/6 when is a selfie no longer a selfie? — Performance, publication
6/6 when is a selfie no longer a selfie? — Performance, publication
14.SMILE! YOU ARE BEING RECORDED

New York, NY
2023
Performance
Publication

Four acrylic plexiglass sheets. White, blue, yellow. 1/8" × 18" × 24".
Held together using a chain and carabiner.
Documentation is printed on fiber-based "masa" paper. 21" × 31".
Live site
🔗

A playful theatrical response to “When is a selfie no longer a selfie?” I adorned this three-layered acrylic signage (that is also a book) around Central Park to see how people would react to a visible presence of surveillance. The design is inspired by a sign I encountered while gathering data for when is a selfie no longer a selfie?. However, I chose to depict it in four layers to deconstruct its visual elements and isolate which parts are essential to a system of surveillance. Are we accustomed to seeing smiling faces as symbols of surveillance? Why? What is their semiotic purpose? Do they make surveillance feel less sinister—or more?

1/6 SMILE! YOU ARE BEING RECORDED — Performance, publication, website design, coding
2/6 SMILE! YOU ARE BEING RECORDED — Performance, publication, website design, coding.
Laser cutting on a white 18 inches × 24 inches plexiglass sheet.
3/6 SMILE! YOU ARE BEING RECORDED — Performance, publication, website design, coding.
Laser engraving on a yellow 18 inches × 24 inches plexiglass sheet.
4/6 SMILE! YOU ARE BEING RECORDED — Performance, publication, website design, coding.
Laser engraving on a blue 18 inches × 24 inches plexiglass sheet.
5/6 SMILE! YOU ARE BEING RECORDED — Performance, publication, website design, coding.
Documentation of photographs on website. Click to generate random order of images and captions.
6/6 SMILE! YOU ARE BEING RECORDED — Performance, publication, website design, coding.
Documentation is printed on fiber-based "masa" paper. 21 inches × 31 inches.