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Encum: an Illiterate Outlook
Encum: an Illiterate Outlook presents the experience of an illiterate woman named Encum in a village in Indonesia. It reveals the reason for her illiteracy and how she navigated her life in a world where reading is indispensable. In addition, the two typefaces used in the book were developed based on Mrs. Encum's writing as an illiterate. The book aims to convey that illiteracy is a systemic problem and that access to education is a human right.Editorial Design, Typeface Design
Personal
2024
Thesis Research Pamphlet
This book compiles research findings from the initial phase of thesis research, including desk research, zine-making experiments, documentary video exercises, and an argumentative essay. The thesis examines the importance of incorporating personal stories and lived experiences into historiography. The book printed transparent papers (velum) and films to illustrate the juxtaposition of the multiplicity of materials, archives, and narratives within a single historical event.Design Research, Editorial Design
Personal
2025
Open Studio Handouts
The handout supports the installation with resources related to the topic, along with interview excerpts with the artist and photographer Rangga Purbaya from Indonesia. It was printed on newsprint to resemble how information was widely distributed through newspapers.
Editorial Design
Personal
2025
Weaving the Nexus:
How Act of Archiving Broadens Creative Networks
This project seeks to discover a strategy of attracting art and design students to do on-site desk research in a new library and archive that they have never been to. It started with a desk and ethnographic research on an archive in New York City and developed into a design probe that is disseminated to the people who are in accordance with the new audience targeted by Asia Art Archive in America (AAAinA), which then further developed into a design concept that was created based on the findings from the design probe results and follow-up interviews.
Design Research & Strategy, Case Study
Personal
2025
A photo of AAAinA‘s facade
(Courtesy of Ingui Architecture)
A photo of Holly tree’s branches
and fruits during the winter.
Holly Tree as A Community
A holly tree is an evergreen that stays green year-round. Thus, it becomes a source of food and a home for various animals throughout the year. This book conveys the role of a single tree in an environment and how it interconnects with other creatures around it. The shapes of the book resemble a holly tree branch to illustrate the tree without showing a picture of it. Moreover, the Vellum paper is used to replicate the sharp edges of the holly tree’s leaves.
Bookmaking
Personal
2025
Interdependently of a Holly Tree Community
Inspired by Permaculture Guild Diagram, originally drawn by Bill Mollison, (the co-founder of the permaculture movement) that depicts a "guild" as a community of plants, animals, and microorganisms that work interdependently to create a self-sustaining ecosystem, the book informed the readers about different key roles of creatures that live with a holly tree interacts with the holly tree and among each others. Moreover, the book was bound with a thread dyed with holly-leaf dye.