Your affordable layout and graphic design creative studio for design that hits
Welcome to PELAGO—a mere small-scale creative studio where deep-rooted industry expertise meets boundary-pushing modern design.We are a team of two, intentionally tiny and laser-focused. Not a bloated agency with rotating juniors. Not a one-person freelance operation. Just two specialized creatives, combining completely distinct design philosophies to give your brand the absolute best of both worlds.On one side, our structural anchor: a certified layout specialist with over a decade of experience in high-pressure newspaper and tabloid production. Obsessed with precision, typographic hierarchy, and flawless execution—they make sure your heavy-content projects are scannable, authoritative, and masterfully structured.On the other, our adaptive creative: a self-taught graphic designer and minimalist at heart, equally fluent in sleek corporate aesthetics and rule-breaking design movements—brutalism, anti-design, and layouts that challenge every convention on purpose.Together, we cover a range that most studios simply can't. From boardroom-ready polish to underground visual energy—PELAGO delivers.
BEHIND THE NAME
BEHIND THE NAME
PELAGO is drawn from the word archipelago—a vast stretch of open ocean scattered with islands, each distinct, each shaped by its own forces, yet all connected by the same living body of water.That image is us.Two creatives. Two completely different design languages. One shared current running beneath everything we make—the relentless pursuit of work that is intentional, considered, and built to endure. We didn't name ourselves after a wave, or a tide, or a shore.We named ourselves after the space between—where things drift, collide, and become something new.And there is no archipelago that inspires us more than our own. Indonesia—17,000 islands. Hundreds of languages. Countless cultures, textures, and visual traditions. Yet beneath all of that beautiful difference runs one identity, one current, one nation.Bhinneka Tunggal Ika. Unity in diversity.That is the spirit PELAGO carries into every project. We are two people with completely different design philosophies—one rooted in precision and structure, the other in intuition and visual exploration. We should not, on paper, work the same way. But like the islands of this archipelago, we don't need to be the same to belong to the same whole.PELAGO is Indonesian by soul. Global by reach. And built on the belief that the most powerful things are not uniform—they are united.