Ariana Grande's Petal opens with a hand-drawn font and poster illustration by @rising67.studio, an Indonesian designer. Here is the story behind every letter.

On May 29, 2026, Ariana Grande released "hate that i made you love me," the lead single from her upcoming eighth studio album Petal. The song arrived with a lyric video featuring a bold vintage title treatment in warm yellow against a cinematic stormy sky, and a poster that has since appeared on walls in New York and in California as part of the physical promotional rollout for the Petal era.

The title font and the poster illustration were both made by an Indonesian.

@rising67.studio, a graphic designer and illustrator based in Indonesia, created both the hand-drawn vintage title typography and the full poster illustration for "hate that i made you love me." The artist revealed that each letter of the title font was drawn manually, one by one, inspired by the visual aesthetic of the 1950s and 1960s. The poster illustration was also created by hand, extending the same vintage mid-century sensibility across the full visual treatment of the Petallead single.

If you have been following Indonesia's creative economy on the global stage in 2026, from Grafis Nusantara at TDC72 to 18 Indonesians on Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia, @rising67.studio's contribution to the Petal era is the quiet chapter of the same story: Indonesian creative talent working at the highest level of global pop culture, one letter and one illustration at a time.

What @rising67.studio Made for the petal Era

The title card for "hate that i made you love me." The vintage yellow font was hand-drawn in Indonesia by @rising67.studio. 

 
The work @rising67.studio created for the Petal lead single goes beyond a single typeface. It covers the title font, each letter drawn manually and inspired by mid-century American graphic design, and the full poster illustration that accompanied the single's physical promotional rollout.

That scope matters in the context of Ariana Grande's Petal era. Petal is Grande's eighth studio album, scheduled for release on July 31, 2026, through her own imprint BabyDoll Music under Republic Records, co-written and executive produced alongside Ilya Salmanzadeh. Grande described Petal as "something that is full of life and growing through the cracks of something cold and hard and challenging." The visual language of the era, from the black-and-white close-up photography of the album cover to the warm vintage illustration of the lead single, is consistent in its commitment to one aesthetic register: organic, intimate, and made by hand.

A commercial typeface and a stock illustration would have been faster. They would also have been wrong for this particular era. The decision to commission hand-drawn lettering and a hand-illustrated poster from an Indonesian artist, inspired by the specific warmth of 1950s and 1960s graphic design, produced a visual identity for the lead single that the global design community immediately recognized as distinctive.

The poster was not only released digitally. @rising67.studio confirmed it was displayed in New York and in California as part of the physical rollout. A hand-drawn title and a hand-illustrated poster, made in Indonesia, on walls in two of the most visible cities in American pop culture.

Why This Story Is Bigger Than Most People Noticed

@rising67.studio, The Indonesian designer behind the petal poster. From Indonesia to New York to California. 

Global pop music operates on a production scale that most people do not fully see. When Ariana Grande releases a single, the visual rollout involves a network of creative professionals whose names rarely appear in the credits. The work gets used. The artist gets seen. The creators behind the specific elements that make the whole thing cohere stay invisible unless they choose to share it.

@rising67.studio chose to share it. The revelation that both the hand-drawn title font and the full poster illustration for "hate that i made you love me" were created in Indonesia, by an Indonesian graphic designer and illustrator who drew every letter by hand and built the poster from the same mid-century visual vocabulary, is the kind of story that travels in design and typography communities because it confirms something those communities already believe: that the best work, at the highest level, can come from anywhere.

For Indonesia, it is one more entry in a catalog of 2026 moments that make the same argument. A sticker archive at TDC72. Eighteen people on Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia. A solo game developer whose work fooled Japanese press. A hand-drawn title font and a hand-illustrated poster for an Ariana Grande single, on walls in New York and California. The common thread is not genre or medium or industry. The common thread is Indonesian creative.

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@rising67.studio is the Indonesian graphic designer and illustrator behind the hand-drawn title font and full poster illustration for Ariana Grande's "hate that i made you love me," the lead single from Petal, her eighth studio album releasing July 31, 2026. Follow their work at @rising67.studio on Instagram.

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