Ruang Putih
Digital identity and exhibition catalogue for a contemporary gallery in Bandung. Typography-led, almost silent.
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Considered Digital Craft
Zein Dhikral is an independent designer & engineer building quiet, precise digital experiences for studios and cultural institutions.
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Selected Work
03 — 01
Four projects,
chosen slowly.
Arsip Kota
A living archive of Southeast Asian urban photography. Built like a magazine, read like a map.
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Meridian
Reading environment for long-form journalism. Two typefaces, one accent, nothing else.
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About
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I work at the intersection of editorial design and engineering — building websites the way a printer sets a page: with patience, restraint, and respect for the reader.
The practice began in 2019 with a borrowed laptop and a fascination for grid systems. Since then it has grown into a small independent studio of one, working with galleries, publications and founders who care about how things feel.
Most projects begin with typography and end with performance budgets. The two are never in conflict.
Away from the screen: film photography, second-hand bookshops, and long walks through cities that were never planned for walking.
Currently accepting a small number of commissions for 2027.
2019
First commission
A poetry archive, hand-coded over one long dry season.
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2021
Studio practice begins
Left agency work to build slower, better things independently.
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2024
First international clients
Editorial platforms in Amsterdam and Seoul.
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2026
Today
Designing and building, one project at a time.
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Experience
05
2023—26
Independent Designer & Engineer
Self-directed practice, Jakarta
Current
2021—23
Senior Frontend, Design Systems
Digital studio, remote
Contract
2019—21
Web Designer & Developer
Creative agency, Bandung
Full-time
Craft & Tools
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Typescript.ReactNext.jsWebGL
Typescript.ReactNext.jsWebGL
GSAPNode.FigmaMotion.
GSAPNode.FigmaMotion.
Tools change every season. The grid, the baseline, and the reader do not — so that is where the attention goes.
Design is not what fills the page.— Working principle, since 2019
It is what the page can afford to lose.
Open for commissions — 2027
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