Biography

Jimmy Ofisia's venture in the design field started soon after quitting college. He attended two local design schools, but never finished any of them. He taught himself a proper skill of Actionscript back then at the peak of Flash heyday, managed to build an XML based Flash site for his then moniker Merdeka Ataoe Mati, only to realize that the future web would eventually still belong to the good ‘ol HTML and CSS. Which is great, because he thinks they are easier, more accessible and widely supported than the former.

During that time, the rise of independent type foundries also sparked his interest on typographic design. His lack of figure drawing skill convinced him enough that drawing letter shapes is a way much more pleasurable activity. His first typeface Chomsky was released by T-26 on August 2009. Carlos Segura was one of his college years design hero, so getting the chance to join the T-26 roster was kind of like a dream come true. Fortunately, there is no such thing as useless knowledge, Flash' font embedding capability comes in handy for building a custom type tester tool, where the available options are still rare at the time.

Later that year, he decided to have a shot at being a part of a collective. He joined graphichapter, a small design bureau in Surabaya, Indonesia, where he serve as the Creative Director. Over the years, he still continued his self education, constantly expanding his knowledge through various aspects of the projects he worked on. Learning the lingos and having his hands dirty on anything from interaction design, information architecture, content strategy, to the holistic nature of user experience design. But after all those years being surrounded by talented peers, he is still suck at illustration, which is why during his tenure he mostly only handle branding and web related projects.

On August 2015, after a long stint in a studio environment, he resigned and set out on a new journey once again. Presently, he is interested working with small brands and visionary individuals, lending his experiences and accompanying them thriving through the 21st century's design driven global era. Beside that, he would also love to get to know new folks across various disciplines for future collaboration opportunities and alike.

While he is not busy fiddling with his mostly useless side projects and figuring out ways to make them less useless, he is allocating some of his free time to help each other free of charge. So, whether you are a design student seeking for a portfolio review, or a non profit organization representative seeking for a pro bono design advice, his inquiry page is your friend.