Communicating Practise

Task A

Infographic

Infographic is known as information graphic are graphic visual representation  of information, data or knowledge intended to present complex information quickly and clearly.

Infographic also use to improve cognition by utilizing to enhance the human visual system's ability to see pattern and trends. 3 parts of infographic is the visual, the content and the knowledge. The visual consists of color and graphic is been divided by 2 that consists of Reference- generally icon that can be used to point certain data and Theme- included in all infographics and represent the underlying visual representation data.

Data visualization are often use in the infographic and make up the entire infographic. There are many types of visualization that can be use to represent the information. There are 5 primarily types of visualization :

1. Time series data

2. Statistical distributions

3. Maps

4. Hierarchies 

5. Networking

Example of infographic:

Image 1: Infographic about geek and nerd taken at http://media.creativebloq.futurecdn.net/sites/creativebloq.com/files/images/2012/02/infographic-design-geek-nerd.jpg

Image 2: a screen shot of infographic book by Randy Krum taken at https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaARxppMAnh8s9-Zl7CP6NRSZu-XuRNSrssxAt7gYQ5v4KKV46j8fjYQDrKP1q-7_jSveAp5u8fqRu4qzuTUkhXllYZ3M1xnAP7wMUSjNTPNmw_JPTVmZa5uRpJv6CVadD82r-34RIkJk/s1600/Screen+Shot+2013-12-05+at+1.11.32+PM.png

Communicating Practise

Communicating Practise

Task C

In this task we learn about the communicating using listening skill, it is important because the art of a good communication is to be a better listener. They are 5 tips to become a better listener.

1. Paraphrase the message

2. Repeat the message

3. Probe the missing information

4. Clarify any points

5. Remember the important points

The notes that I wrote while our module leader read an article to us:

Article 1: Topic: Branding

1. Branding is a term that been use but misinterpreted, now known as the name of the company.

2. Brand is a logo and name. It also known as the face of the company.

3. Brand also intangible and known as a name to any like Coca-Cola.

Article 2: Topic: Brand and Business

1. Brand is a term to marketing and how the business process.

2. It is also a backbone for the business and marketing.

3. Brand also known as core value for the business and invisible for company and audience.

Article 3: Topic: Brand and Societies

1. Company doesn't need to rebrand but adjust way to sell into another way. 

2. For example, Samsung enter the marketing with different approach in Europe and Russia

So, by listening to our module leader, we been told to take note and everyone us has different note and we could not write the same thing that been said by our module leader and we need to write according to our own understanding what she said.

METHOD OF INVESTIGATION

MID POINT REVIEW

From this module, I learn about the important of doing research. There are many type of research methodologies that we can use in doing research about artwork that we thing that show the study well. When, I doing about research on topic that we like in graphic design, I choose about fashion topic, then I found books about fashion such as WORLD MOST INFLUENTAL FASHION DESIGNER by Noel Palomo-Lovinski, FASHION-A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION by Rebecca Arnold and OLD CLOTHES,NEW LOOK: SECOND-HAND FASHION by Alexandra Palmer and Hazel Clark. They talk about fashion in variety way but mostly fashion is about what fashion is and the history of fashion and concept that designer from generation to generation.

In this module, I also learn about the important of an evidence that I should have when doing research about something that I want. If we need to take word or talk the author quotes, we need to learn a good way to make citation about the quotes that we want. We also learn how we use the quotes in our references in our artwork.

When we doing a group work, we usually learning from each other where we give comment to each other. This we do when doing presentation in about reasarch methodologies. 

METHOD OF INVESTIGATION

Subj: Method of Investigation

Task 3: Investigate Good Source For Good Outcomes

In this task we are require to find 10 books about architecture as a reference that help us in Design Studio_Conceptualization project. This is the list that I pick.

1. Title: Contemporary Curtain Wall Architecture
    Authors: Murray, Scott
    Publisher: Tuttle Publishing

2. Title: Mechanics and Meaning in Architecture
    Authors: LaVine, Lance
    Publisher: University of Minnesota Press

3. Title: Architecture and Authority in Japan
    Authors: Coaldrake, William
    Publisher: Routledge

4. Title: Contemporary Architecture in China-Urban Landscape
    Authors: Pang,Wei, Song,Sophia
    Publisher: Profession Design Press Co.,Ltd

5. Title: Move: Dynamic Components and Element in Architecture
    Authors: Shumacher,Michael, Schaeffer,Oliver, Vogt, Michael-Marcus
    Publisher: Birkhaeuser

6. Title: Possibility of an Absolute Architecture
    Authors: Aureli, Pier Hittorio
    Publisher: MIT Press

7. Title: Analysing Architercture
    Authors: Unwin, Simon
    Publisher: Routledge

8. Title: Architecture of First Societies: A Global Perspectives
    Authors: Jarzombek, Mark M.
    Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

9. Title: Architecture and Sciences: Exchanging Metaphor
    Author: Ponte, Allesandra Picon, Antoine
    Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press

10. Title: Design Ecologies: Sustainable Potentials in Architecture
      Authors: Tilder,Lisa, Blostein,Beth
      Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press

METHOD OF INVESTIGATION

Subj: Method Of Investigation
Task 2: Alternative To Research


Find 5 (different) websites to talk about design but the talk about the same topic ( graphic design, interior, fashion and etc.). It can't be mix. Do a review. 

Topic: Fashion Design

1st websites: http://www.fashion-era.com/
Summary: This website talk about fashion history, costume history, fashion and social history. It also talk about the meaning of fashion and the old fashion design.

2nd websites :http://education-portal.com/fashion_designer.html
Summary: This websites talk about how the fashion designer work and how to become a fashion designer and the requirement to become fashion designer.

3rd websites: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fashion_design
Summary: This website talk about more the application of art and the aesthetics or natural beauty about clothing and accessories.

4th websites: http://www.prospects.ac.uk/fashion_designer_job_description.htm 
Summary: This websites talk about the description of being fashion designer. They also talk about the main areas in fashion designer such as: high street fashion, ready to-wear and haute-couture and fashon designer typical work activities.

5th websites: http://www.wwd.com/fashion-news
Summary: This websites talk about the fashion news around the world, new fashion that will comes from the famous fashion designer and the new trend about fashion and also  talk about the celebrities wear.

METHOD OF INVESTIGATION

Subj: Method of investigation
Task 1: Method of Investigation Peer Reviews

Yesterday we doing presentation about Method of Investigation. This is about the peer reviews in our presentation yesterday that I get.

1. Satish = Research Methodolgy and Quanti/Quali

2. Budu = Ethnography and literature Review

3. Alexis/Me = Formative/Summative Research and Observational Research

4. Jeffry = Demographic

5. Hatmi = Psycho graphic
6. Aisyah = Primary/Secondary Research and Visual Anthropology

In Research Methodology and Quantity/Quality Research , I understand that research methodology is important in people life especially in field that need a references. Research methodology is a process of collecting information and data for purpose of making business decision. The methodology may include in publication, interview, survey and etc.

In Quality and Quantity is something that use in researching building proportion and something that countable and not countable but as a designer we always use non countable method in doing research.

For Ethnography and Literature review is, Ethnography is a research that need in observation and interacting with the people in that place. as a example, how to go green, we need to travel to know what other countries do to dispose their rubbish.

In Literature Reviews, is we research what other people has research and take it as a reference. For an example, if we decided a research about Malaysia, so we need to read every book that has research about Malaysia.

Formative and Summative research is a main research method. Formative is something that countable and summative is something that not countable. The method that in formative research is literature Review, Visual Anthropology, Surveys and Questionnaires, Demographic and etc. Method that in Summative Research is Observation, Web analytic, Interviews and etc.

Observational research is a research that conduct by observing a certain behavior in the subject without influencing the by interacting. observation can be conduct by going out and observe the subject from far or by an artificial lab but it has a disadvantage especially when using hidden camera that interrupt with subject personal life.

Demographic is a research that conduct by observing the product that they made according to gender, age, income, size, social class and etc.

Psycho graphic is research that conduct by observing personalities, opinions, attitudes, interest and etc. It's different from demographic research.

For the last peer reviews is about primary and Secondary Research. Primary research is something that we conduct as our original research and sources without other people influences. Secondary Research is a research that conduct after primary research by referencing other research about the same subject.

Visual Anthropology is a research about a study of human aspect and behavior that will be keep in picture, video and film.

This is my power point for the method of investigation task.
OBSERVATIONAL RESEARCH
FORMATIVE AND SUMMATIVE RESEARCH

METHOD OF INVESTIGATION

Subj: Method of Investigation

Task 1: Research Terminologies

1: Formative Research.

   Meaning: Formative is something that we cannot count such as picture or visual. That mean formative research is the basis for developing effective strategies and implementing design. It is a research that focus on details of content or performance. It is a contrast with summative research.

2: Summative Research

   Meaning: Summative is something that we can count such as web analytic, data count and etc. Summative research is evaluation technique in instructional design. It also use to identify any areas of weakness. Method that been use in summative research is 

  i. Questionnaires

 ii. Surveys

iii. Interviews

iv. Observations

 v. Testing

vi. Project

3. Observational Research

   Meaning: Observational research is a method from summative research that conduct by writing a data after conducting a test or observational data. For example, a researcher conduct a test in logo design.

METHOD OF INVESTIGATING

      

Method of Investigation Learning Outcomes

LOC 1: Demonstrate basic awareness of the leading practitioners within their field study.

Reflect:  Basic awareness is important in every leading practitioner in every field study they take especially in design field. Every designer must know about basic thing in the field they choose to help them found the information and research about the field they take.

LOC 2: Evidence in understanding of the historical context for the discipline.

Reflect: Understanding the meaning in evidence that we found in every facts that been research to avoid cheating and stealing the information.

LOC 3: Discuss and evaluate their own work in a group scanlation (self-analysis)

Reflect: Be good at group work and talk with team mates and show the contribution in the work that been given.

LOC 4: Present cogent arguments verbally.

Reflect: Always know how to ask question and answering the question among the discussion between class mates and group.

LOC 5: Have a broad understanding of the wider application, creative and commercials of their chosen fields.

Reflect: Know about the application in the chosen fields in using many way to create something creative and commercial like using Photoshop, Illustrator or using picture that make someone it attractive.

Academic Skill

Lect : Ms. Nadyra
Subj : Academic Skill Activity

Last week activity is bring food to the class. I bring Nasi Goreng Ikan Bilis ( Anchovies Fried Rice). We also  learns about my friend food.

Recipe :
1 bowl of rice
Anchovies
Chili Sauce
1 Teaspoon of oil

Procedure :
1. Fried the anchovies and chili sauce first.
2. Put the rice in it and fried it until it cooked.

Academic Skill

Subj: Academic Skill
Date/Day : Wednesday/26 March 2014

On Wednesday, our lecturer give us activity to think about what we should draw in the drawing paper according to the question given. When we are ask to choose one question without knowing about the question, I get " what or who need to be cool down". Below is the drawing that I made.

Fig 1 : What or Who need to be cool down

  I make this drawing because nowadays weather is extremely hot, so the snowman indicate about the melting of glacier in the south pole and north pole. The earth is resemble the problem that largely happen now that is the global warming. Even though, everyone need to cool down, but it also need a payment or charge in getting it. The global warming and the melting of glacier need a great budget to repairing or maintain the temperature of the earth. But for me, if we need to maintain we should do it before it become worse and think about the consequences that will happen because of the ignorance in human mind.

Academic Skill

Subj: Academic Skill ( Reflection about Blog Presentation )

Teacher: Miss Nadyra Bashir

    Last week, our group had done Academic Skill presentation with our lecturer. Then, our lecturer told us to comment on our friend group how we can improve or maintain with 3 bad comment and 3 good comment to our friend. I had been require to comment about Aisyah presentation. I told her about the she need to be brave when public speaking with people especially in English. She also need to improvise speaking in English and control her shaking when talking with people. The good thing is, she improvise from before.

      Then our lecturer give her own opinion about our presentation. When, she told me that I was mature in the group, I feel like it's funny because I not what it seem. Then, I speak monotonously so I think I should change my tone of speaking in presentation. When I was told to presenting something, I tend to throw out what other people do such as laughing or any other thing that will disturbing the presentation because I like to make my presentation short, simple but full with information.

       The presentation is from Samira. She organize her blog sleekly and her powerful technical word in her presentation. She also good in explaining the concept and the word that we don't understand.

      Then, our lecturer told us find the meaning of peer learning. In my opinion, peer learning is like a group study but the friend among the group give their own opinion or comment about the their friend work and this type of learning is good to improve their own study. 

Academic Skill

Activity : Story Making
Day : Tuesday

 On Tuesday last week we are doing story making activity from 9 different words that must spontaneously write on a paper and fold so the other would see .
 We creating a story in 3 genres that is Comedy, Horror and Sad. The List below is 9 different words that we written according the genres.

Comedy
1. Perfection
2. enjoyment
3. tunnel
4. foggy
5. cat
6. weird
7. feather
8. mirror
9. beach

In first round, Reynard, Satish and I fail to create a funny story so we cannot join for the second round. So, our lecture choose to be the judges for the second round.

Horror
1. underwear
2. bleeding eye zombie
3. crow
4. hanging eyeball
5. clown
6. vampire
7. grave
8. lady
9. E.T

On the second round, Emily and Hatmi fail the horror theme and they be the judges for the sad story.

Sad
1. money
2. sleep
3. cheated
4. tore
5. grandmother
6. breakup
7. hungry
8. rainbow
9. failure

Lastly, Aisyah, Samira and Hui Xin compete to the final for a sad story and in the end Aisyah win and get her present ..

This activity give us how we think some words spontaneously and create stories in short time .

Academic Skill

Subject : Problem Solving
Date : 12 March 2014
Day : Wednesday
 
On Wednesday, Miss Nadyra is giving a an activity that inquire us to solve problem that been given. List below is my friend and I given problem that has many way to solves.

   1. Satish - What is body part that you think is creative and why you choose it.
                 - How do you paint if you are blind ?

   2. Aisyah - How do you cross the lake by using only your leg ?

   3. Samira - How do you take your picture when your camera is broken ?
                  - How do you go to KL-Nilai when do you only has 1 ringgit malaysia ?

   4. Xu Hui - How do you create your design if your laptop and software is not working ?

   5. Hui Xin - How do you draw if you got no hand ?
 
   6. Reynard - You saw your friend shoplifting. What will you do ?
                    - You are going to shopping market and then you get extra 2.50 ringgit malaysia. What wil you
                       do ?
   7. Alexis Lyndy - Your 3D software is not working. How will you create your 3D character ?

This my way to solve the problem. I created a rough model of mandarin duck from modelling clay. First I want to create cat and final it turn out to be duck . This the final picture of my clay mandarin duck.

Academic Skills

Academic Skill : Activity for Wednesday

     On Thursday, in Academic Skill class we had fun activity by our lecturer. We play a role play game that need us to act like the objects, actions, and the character that we had choose and the person that got more character paper will get prize.

     We start in group of 7 in first session and we were told to describe the object to the group in way that they cannot recognize immediately. The game was fun, and exciting. We can think faster and there so many new word we learn on that day. We also learn about our group character and get to know each other especially for the new student.

    Then, my friend acting like our teacher and we get hard time to guess it but unexpectedly my friend impersonate his walk perfectly. Then, the lecture told us about the impersonate teacher was in the studio with us and we laugh because of the unexpected surprise.

     

Task 1: Academic Skill

Task 1: Reflective practice : Student are required to write an essay about individual creative practice and plagiarism with supporting material. The essay should be 750 words.

     The individual creative practice is something that been made by the individual itself by theirs own skill and idea. this can be seen or approve by their own sketchbook that show their own idea and the original sketching. The individual creative play an important in publishing the idea to others and to interpret the message to the audience and show the process to make some of the artwork. 

    Practice is part of improving and implore the skill and to explore the work that been made. It also help us by creating our own  design and not by taking the original idea from any of other person. I also believe that by practicing our own skill and design we can improve and then explore our own artwork. I also believe by individual creative we can decide which one that we need to improve and explore on our own.

     Plagiarism is same with copying other people work. Copying other people may lead to pure plagiarism and this will create so much problem in other artwork and our own design and skill. Plagiarism will lead to dishonest working skill and if this is happen continuously it will lead to disaster in our life. To avoid plagiarism we must has our own idea and keep it in your safe book like your work diary.

     Copying other people work will not helping to improve your skill and your artwork will not acknowledge by other because you are actually taking other people idea and design. By plagiarizing cannot interpret and elaborate the idea to other people because doesn't know what their doing because they only copying from other people. Duplicating is also known as plagiarism. For example, duplicating any note in the internet, book, magazine, journal or any other material can give credit to the authority to arrest in term of drastic plagiarism.

   In conclusion, the individual creative practice must be in the individual itself to avoid plagiarism in idea, design and artwork. This also help them to improvise, explore,interpret and elaborate teir own artwork to the audience.