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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.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.