AstaDesign::design & stuffs

I work as a freelance illustrator for two publishing company, Diva Press Yogyakarta and Penerbit Beranda Hikmah Jakarta. They publish teen novels, thus my jobs mostly designing cover for those kind of novel.
Here some of my designs.







I thinks it's a great idea to always try to expand our skills and knowledge. Becoming an illustrator is not bad at all.

During my spare times, I enjoy writing books, especially about Graphic Design of course. Some of them have been published by Elexmedia Komputindo and Andi Offset.
Until today, I've written 11 books, and several ongoing projects. Here are the covers of my 8 books. I haven't had time to scan 3 of my latest ones.









I'm planning to write more books. Something that can be beneficial for Indonesian people.

A friend of mine, Ade, was asking me to vectorize his pic. A pic full of memory with his girlfriend. She's out there somewhere in the Middle East. Hehehe...what a great girl. Having courage to fight for what she wants.



For this design, I used Adobe Illustrator CS 2. As usual, I use the original pic (on the left) as the master template in a layer. Then, I created a new layer above it, and by using Pen tool and Eyedropper tool, I traced all objects needed to make the final design (on the right).
It took me about 2 hours to finish it. When I sent the final result to him, he's excited and he said about sending it to his beloved one.
Glad to hear that, 'cause I think the greatest appreciation for a graphic designer is when his/her client likes the job.

I just design banner for SDA Jobs. It's a new section in our website, where people can both search and submit jobs. It's not done yet, but I think it's gonna compete JobsDB and Karir.com.
Anyway, here's how the banner looks like.

When I was still in Jamu Jago Semarang, my main job as a graphic design was designing packaging for Jamu Jago's products. I designed catscover, doos, sachet and related stuffs like that.
But then, when I moved in to SDA Asia, I face a different challenges. Due to its nature as a publishing company, my jobs now are mainly related publishing--especially web publishing. Here, I design web for some events held by our German based headquarter, the S&S.
It's great you know. 'Cause by facing these kind of projects, I can improve myself. Learning something new.
Oh yeah, here are two of my finished web projects.



There are also some ongoing projects that I'm still working on. Yeah, another day another works.

Semangat Hasto!!!

Since I just move to a new work place, then I should update my CV. I've made them on PDF version, thus I'll be much easier to use it on my future applications. You can download it here.
Or perhaps, if you'd like to see in on single page, here I put each pages in JPEG version.



As some people say, "A good CV shows how good you really are." Ok?

I try to apply my vector illustrations on T-shirt, and they look nice.





Oh yeah, I've just sign up for an online store at CafePress. There I put my designs on various stuffs, like T-shirt, sweater, jacket, ever housewares. Nice place.