Sebening Vol. 03 — Editorial
Studio · 2026
Monograph — Print
Studio Aman is the independent practice of Aman Rahim — a designer and art director shaping books, magazines, and brand systems with a sensibility rooted in craft, restraint, and a love for the printed page.
Eleven years working with publishers, museums, fashion houses, and independent magazines.
I'm Aman, an editorial designer and art director working from a quiet street in Bangsar, Kuala Lumpur. I believe a well-designed page is a quiet, generous thing — it gets out of the reader's way.
The studio began in 2014 as a one-desk practice between book commissions and freelance shifts at a national daily. It has stayed deliberately small. Most projects are led by me, with a small circle of trusted illustrators, photographers, and printers I've worked with for years.
The work spans magazines, monographs, identity systems, and the occasional bilingual typeface. Whatever the medium, the brief is the same: make something that earns its place on a shelf, in a hand, in a room.
A small sample. Full archive available on request.
Four practice areas. Engagements typically run six to sixteen weeks.
Magazines, journals, annual reports, and one-off publications. End-to-end: concept, art direction, typography system, production, and press supervision.
Trade titles, art monographs, and cookbooks. I work closely with editors, photographers, and printers — usually from manuscript stage through final binding.
Identity systems for publishers, galleries, restaurants, and independent labels. Logotype, typography, art direction, and the editorial materials that make a brand legible over time.
Ongoing direction for editorial titles, campaigns, and cultural programmes. Photo editing, illustration commissioning, and a steady hand across multiple touchpoints.
A handful of words from editors, founders, and collaborators.
Aman has a genuinely rare patience with type. Three issues in and our magazine looks like itself in a way it never quite did before. He treats the page like a room you walk into.
A real collaborator, not a vendor. Aman pushed the manuscript in directions I hadn't seen, and the cookbook is better — by some margin — for it.
Studio Aman delivered an identity that actually behaves like an identity — across signage, catalogues, social, and the awkward bits in between. Six months on, it still feels right.
We came with a vague brief and left with a system we still use today. Aman is unusually calm in the middle of a redesign — which, if you've ever been in one, you'll know is the whole game.
The monograph is the most carefully made book I've held in years. Every spread earns the next one. We're already planning a second volume.
Worked with a lot of designers. Aman is the only one who's ever sent typographic notes on our manuscript before laying out a single page. That alone says everything.
Notes, process, and the occasional opinion.
The studio takes on roughly six engagements a year. I read every email myself and try to reply within two working days.
hello@studioaman.co
