Studio
We collaborate with forward-thinking brands, institutions, and creative agencies to create great branding, websites, apps, data visualization, editorial design, packaging, motion graphics, exhibitions, and site-specific interactive installations in the U.S. and abroad.
Since 2008, we continue to transform ideas and visions into communication tools that often create a sense of buzz in the competitive marketplace. Our involvement helps companies and institutions evaluate, adapt, and grow by appealing to various consumers and cultures, both online and offline.
We believe good design is engaging, relevant, and timeless. This is achievable through mutual collaboration, experimentation, good typography, user-friendliness, and attention to details.
Process
We place creative strategy at the heart of our process.

What They Say
Working with KUDOS was pure joy. They listen, ask questions, dig deep and find the best solution and they make it all happen with smiles and great attention to all the little details. In addition to wonderful team spirit, their work is smart, elegant and refreshing.
Eric Baker
KUDOS is great to collaborate with — they articulate ideas clearly and efficiently to find the right solution. Even while the serious work is getting done, there’s always a sense of good nature and good humor.
Kelly Burns
KUDOS has worked on countless projects for us. Their ability to turn complex data and information into something visually appealing and compelling has been invaluable to us.
Long Island Index
I’ve worked with KUDOS on a number of projects over the last 9 years. What they bring to the table is that rare mix of technical and creative excellence that sets their projects apart. They can almost always enhance the final product to exceed expectations, and they hold themselves to the highest design standards.
Allyson Lack
In addition to their design and programming chops, the team at KUDOS is extremely responsive, professional, and open to feedback from clients.
Yaron Ben-Zvi
KUDOS is an excellent partner for several seasons: they are great at listening to our needs and coming up with ideas and solutions, on time, on budget, and they respond quickly.
Colleen Sherry
People

John Kudos
Managing Partner, NY

John Kudos
Managing Partner, NY
John Kudos is a designer, educator, typographer, and technologist who focus on creating strategy, design, and storytelling for brands and institutions. His practice embrace collaboration and experimentation informed by emerging technology and diverse cultural backgrounds.
John is the managing partner of KUDOS Design Collaboratory™ and KASA Collective. John currently serves on the board of directors at Type Directors Club and Poster House CMYK Council to bring more diversity and inclusion to their programs. He is a member of American Alliance of Museums and Society for Experiential Graphic Design.
A native of Bandung, Indonesia, John received his BFA in Design with Digital Media concentration at the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2001 and developed a career as an immigrant entrepreneur in New York, United States. Prior to establishing KUDOS Design Collaboratory™ in 2008, he worked for Pentagram where he led various cultural, retail, and institutional design projects for seven years. In 2019 he cofounded KASA Collective to further develop his passion in fusing design and emerging technology.
He works with a broad range of clients in non-profit, education, healthcare, design, art, cultural, startups, and publishing fields in the U.S., Japan, and Indonesia. Highlights include Cornell University, Poster House, Tribeca Film Festival, MoMA, Guggenheim, TheMet, Sotheby’s, Center for Architecture, CAPC, Bandung City, Wardah Cosmetics, Japan Society, and Made in Japan Project.
His work have been recognized by the Art Directors Club’s Young Guns, the Society of Publication Designers, The Webby, D&AD, Type Directors Club, HOW International Design Awards, AIGA, Graphis, GDUSA, Print, I.D., and Communication Arts to name a few.
Portrait by Kikuko Usuyama

Kiki Katahira
Partner, NY

Kiki Katahira
Partner, NY
Kiki Katahira is a designer, mother, and lover of all things simple and fresh.
Kiki was previously a designer at 2×4 in New York, where she managed projects for art, architecture, fashion and cultural clients worldwide.
Prior to 2×4, she worked with Stefan Sagmeister and Harry N. Abrams. Kiki holds an MFA in Design from the School of Visual Arts in New York and a BFA in Visual Design from Osaka University of Art in Japan. She was featured in HOW magazine’s “Five Fresh Designers to Watch” and was mentioned in high regards in Print Magazine’s Regional Design Annual. She came in first place in the Adobe Design Achievement Award. Kiki’s work has received design awards from the Art Directors Club, the Tokyo Type Directors Club, the New York Type Directors Club and Communication Arts.

Calvin Hadiardja
Partner, JAKARTA

Calvin Hadiardja
Partner, JAKARTA
Calvin Hadiardja studied graphic design at TAFE Enmore and Sydney Graphics College in 2004. Calvin has worked in several design firms in Sydney during his two-year study. In Jakarta, Calvin leads a design team that specializes in providing creative solutions for corporate communications, environmental graphics, promotion design, and editorial design.
Calvin is one of ten finalists for the International Young Creative Entrepreneur (IYCE Indonesia) sponsored by the British Council in 2009.

Andy Kurniawan
Partner, BANDUNG

Andy Kurniawan
Partner, BANDUNG
Andy Kurniawan, graduated from Enmore Design Centre, Sydney, in 2002. Prior to founding Studio Kudos JKT, he has been practicing graphic design with partner Calvin Hao for seven years in Jakarta.
Andy provides creative solutions and manage client communications in Bandung and Jakarta, including some of the most recognized resorts, restaurants, and clubs. Andy’s work have won several local design competitions such as the TELKOMSEL Calendar Design Competition in 2004 and 2008, Ericsson Calendar Design Competition in 2004 and 2008, BAKRIE Telecom Internal Magazine Design Compettion in 2008, and Indosat Calendar Design Competition in 2008.

Melissa Hugo
Partner, BANDUNG

Melissa Hugo
Partner, BANDUNG
Mellisa Hugo manages all aspects of communication, design and production supervison for print- based projects. She holds an BFA in Visual Communications Design from Raffles Lassalle Design Institute—a program license from Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK.
Prior to joining Studio Kudos, Melissa was a junior designer at Antidote+ creative agency, Singapore, for two years. Her work has won the ABDA Calendar Design Competiton 2009, the D&AD Student Award 2008, CROW BAR AWARD Singapore 2008, and was recognized as the Finalist in MAYBANK Credit Card Design Competition 2006.

Oky Kusprianto
Architecture, BANDUNG

Oky Kusprianto
Architecture, BANDUNG
Oky Kusprianto and his team (APTA) is a boutique architecture and interior design studio in Bandung, Indonesia. Since 2009, APTA have collaborated with KUDOS on various projects to achieve a seamless mish-mash of 2-dimensional graphics manifesting in 3-dimensional environments. The result of our collaborations can be seen in the recent TDC62 Traveling Exhibit in Jakarta, Origin café and the newly unveiled EX-Sport retail stores quickly opening in more than fifty capital cities in Indonesia.
APTA believes that ‘good design’ is for everyone, regardless of size, accessibility and budget. In sanskrit, APTA means ‘towards perfection,’ a mantra we aspire to achieve with every collaboration.
Recognitions
Society of Publication Designers 2023, 2005
GD USA, American Digital Design Awards 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015
365: AIGA Year in Design Awards 2022
PRINT Awards 2022, 2017, 2016, 2008
GD USA, American Graphic Design Awards 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015
GD USA, American Package Design Awards 2022, 2020
GD USA, Health + Wellness Design Awards 2021
HOW Annual Logo Design Awards 2018
HOW International Design Awards 2017
Tribeca Film Festival, Storyscapes 2016
Preservation League of NY State, Excellence in Historic Preservation Award 2012
Tokyo Type Directors Club 2010
Art Directors Club, Young Guns 6 2009
Type Directors Club 2008
Art Directors Club, ADC Cube 2004
Adobe Design Achievement Award 2003
Capabilities
Branding
- Brand Consultation
- Brand Strategy
- Brand Positioning
- Rebranding
- Visual Identity
- Brand Guidelines
- Brand Implementation
Print/Editorial
- Information Brochure
- Annual Report
- Publication Design
- Magazine
- Marketing Materials
- Special Event Materials
- Advertising
- Packaging
- Tradeshow Materials
Web
- Web Consultation
- Web Strategy
- Information Architecture
- Responsive Web Design
- Responsive Web Development
- CMS Implementation
- E-Commerce
- SEO & Analytics
Digital Experience
- UX Consultation & Strategy
- User Experience Design (UX)
- User Interface Design (UI)
- User Testing
- iOS App Development
- Rapid Prototyping
- Motion Graphics
- Film Case Studies
Environmental
- Exhibition Design
- Pop-up Event Design
- Wayfinding Signage
- Identification Signage
- ADA Signage
- Tradeshow Booths
Clients
Museum
- Corning Museum of Glass
- Guggenheim
- High Museum
- Japan Society
- MoMA
- TheMet
- Miyako Yoshinaga Art Prospects
- National Museum of American Indians
- Pen & Brush
- Poster House
- Princeton University Art Museum
Publishing
- BRAIN ブレーン Magazine
- Casa/Brutus Magazine
- China Film Insider
- Designers & Books
- Gingko Press
- JingDaily
- Kinokuniya
- Metropolis Magazine
- New York Times
- Shinkenchiku-sha
Graphic Design
- And Partners
- Conduit
- Eric Baker Design
- Miko McGinty Inc
- MTWTF
- Pentagram
- Principle
- Type Directors Club
Architecture
- 1100 Architect
- Amy Lau Design
- DFA
- Marras Lighting
- Modern Green Home
- Modernspace Architecture
- Raymond Jungles
- Selldorf Architects
- Sharon Davis Design
- Shelton Mindel
- Starr Whitehouse Architects
- Strategy+Design Shop
- Studio Jungles
- Yun Architecture
Education
- Columbia University School of Nursing
- Cornell AAP
- CornellTech
- EG Conference
- MIT Media Lab
- Rutgers University
- SVA MFA SocDoc
- Wesleyan University
Services
- Bayu Buana Travel
- Genetika Science+Lab
- Goodfriend Motors
- Harris Rand Lusk
- Propel Strategic Communications
- Salman Solutions
- Stanley Marthin
- Solomon Blumm Heymann LLP
- Sotheby’s
Non-Profit (Cultural)
- Ansche Chesed Synagogue
- Asia Week NY
- Bandung Philharmonic
- The Clemente
- From The Top
- Harlem RBI
- Japan Foundation
- JustVision
- Mark DeGarmo Dance
- Vilcek Foundation
Non-Profit (Healthcare)
- Autism Speaks
- Breast Cancer Research Foundation
- Brighter Bites
- CP NOW
- CAPC — Center to Advance Palliative Care
- IAVI — International AIDS Vaccine Initiative
Non-Profit (Urban Development)
- Avenir Health
- Center for Active Design
- CUP — Center for Urban Pedagogy
- City of Auburn, New York
- City of Bandung, Indonesia
- Congress for New Urbanism
- DataHaven
- DesigNYC
- Design Trust for Public Space
- Rausch Foundation
Retail (Indonesia)
- Blanja.com
- Bodypack
- Celtic
- Chint Electric
- Chitose
- Crayolin
- Emina
- Eiger
- Ernestomeda Indonesia
- EX-Sport
- Fondovalle
- Gessi Indonesia
- Il Sogno
- Larkin Electric
- Lorenza Gem
- MM Gallery Jakarta
- Outlive
- Vivere
Retail (Japan)
- Japan Research Institute
- Made in Japan Project
Retail (U.S.A.)
- FJ Hakimian
- FOUND
- IceBuddy
- Kanekalon
- Macy’s
- Protex Modacrylic
- Robert Mann Rugs
- Steuben Glass
- Thirteen Crosby
Finance
- Bank Indonesia
- Commonwealth Bank
- Union Square Ventures
- UOB Privilege Banking Indonesia
- Spotmenow.com.au (Australia)
Real Estate
- Gunasland
- Landmark Pluit
- Landmark Residence Bandung
- The Modern Group
- NDK Property
- Parkville
- Parkland
- Sinarmasland
- Sinarmas Real Estate Development
- Tamansari Hive Office
- Tamansari Parama Office
- TCC Batavia
- West Vista Apartment
Hotels
- Hotel Indonesia Kempinski
- J-icon Hotel
- Sahid Hotel Serpong
Destinations
- Dusun Bambu
- GoWet! WaterPark
Energy
- Element Markets
- Terregra Asia Energy
Music
- Hilary Hahn
- No Fun Radio
- Philip Sheppard
Cafe & Restaurants
- 90 Gourmet
- Avena
- Amnesia
- Azuma
- Blend Wine & Dine
- Burgundy
- Goode Company
- H5 Asian Fusion
- KataKata Cafe
- Newtown Discotheque
- Orange Blossom
- Origin
- Score! Balikpapan
- Stark Beer
- Sukhadia Catering
- Tokyo Bowl
- Verde
Film/TV & Photography
- GION
- Iron Trader
- Julie Soefer Photography
- Open’hood
- Photobooth Party
- Whiteness Project