Shaping brands, campaigns, publications & stories through creative direction, strategy⏤sometimes in words.
Bio.
Creatively (still) trying to change the world.
Twenty years ago, I naively told my lecturer that I wanted to change the world. When he asked me why, I had no answer. Perhaps the design and creative scene felt dull back then. Perhaps I was simply young and naïve. I still do not entirely know. But here I am, twenty years later, and the instinct remains. Only now, it comes with greater clarity. My work is about finding the soul in things, challenging what is expected and never mistaking aesthetics for meaning. Somewhere between theatre productions, political campaigns, creative departments, books and a family farm, the work has begun to answer that question for itself.
2026.
The Long Way Here
Seventeen years across branding, theatre, political campaigns, publishing, corporate communications and independent creative work. Former Chief Creative Officer at INVOKE, where I built and led a creative department of more than 30 people.
Services
Creative Direction Brand Strategy & Identity Campaigns & Communications Editorial & Publications Film, AV & Content Creative Consultancy
Available for collaborations.
Selected Works
Gading Marine
Creative Direction Brand Strategy & Identity Film, AV & Content Website & Social Media
Gading Marine began as something closer to a sabbatical than a deliberate career move, following a decade-long hustle in the corporate creative world. Yet the work quickly became an exercise in reshaping how the shipbuilding company presented itself. Across digital platforms, print media, photography & AV work, I restructured its creative direction and established a more cohesive presence⏤one that better reflected the stature of its work.
Creative Direction Brand Strategy & Identity Campaign & Communication Website & Social Media
It was state election season & I thought why not: create a new political party. By create, I mean a design and creative creation. Yes, it's fictional⏤part satire & part visual declaration. The project explores the frustrations, contradictions & struggles of a creative individual. Hopefully, through the design identity, it gives creative workers a collective voice, a sense of belonging and perhaps, one day, an actual party to show up for.
Creative Direction Brand Strategy & Identity Campaign & Communication Website & Social Media
diantara.earth began with a conversation between siblings. After completing her second Master’s degree in policymaking in the United States, my sister returned with a deeper involvement in climate justice and Palestine, two issues shaped by overlapping questions of land, power, displacement & survival. She then pitched me with the idea of building an organisation that could champion climate stories rooted in local realities while remaining connected to a much larger global conversation.
Independent Publishing brings together a collection of zines and printed experiments created outside the structures of traditional publishing. From the absurdity of the Zine Kechik Gila series to the personal observations of Mama Tengok Ni, each zine became a space to document ideas, tell stories and turn passing thoughts into something physical. Collectively, they stand as a testament to my self-proclamation as a writer, one publication at a time.
2018⏤2024.
Cerita Budak Design
Editorial & Publication
I began writing Cerita Budak Design in 2013, shortly after completing a four-month stage production project. The desire to write the book came partly from being jobless and partly from my long-standing love of writing. It was published by Kopi Press in 2015, with its original layout eventually adopted by the publisher across its other books. In July 2026, I republished Cerita Budak Design in digital format and made it available for free.
Creative Consultancy Campaign & Ads. Design Photography Program Book DTP
When I began my career in 2010, I had the opportunity to work on an Istana Budaya stage production produced by Tall Order Productions, a Hans Isaac company. What began as a single production eventually led to ten more, opening the door to a world of performance & large-scale creative collaboration. In many ways, it was where my career began.
Cuci The Musical 2 & Last Kopek Lat Kg. Boy the Musical Supermokh Musical & Restaging Lawak Ke Der 1, 2 & 3 Konsert Awie & Ella di Istana Budaya
2010⏤2014.
hdj & harinya dalam filem
Film, AV & Content
HDJ & Harinya dalam Filem began in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, when the MCO kept most of us confined at home. I challenged myself to create an almost-daily vlog, with the longest streak lasting 14 days. What began as a small personal exercise eventually continued, on & off, for several years. More than a vlog project, it became a form of documentation, preserving ordinary days, passing thoughts and fragments of life for my future self.
In 2015, I published Cerita Budak Design, an anecdotal account of my first three years as a creative designer. This is not its sequel. Nor is it Cerita Budak Design 2. I know the title sounds unnecessarily dramatic, perhaps even slightly alarming. I have no justifiable excuse for choosing it. Maybe the book will eventually explain it. Maybe I will have found the answer by then. For now, it is a memoir in progress.