Index - Selected Works
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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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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.

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