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 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 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, 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

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 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.

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