Sunday, 15 May 2016
MANAGING DESIGN
HISTORY OF TATTOO
Its apparent that tattooing was widely practised in many centuries in the ancient world and associated with a high level of artistic endeavour. The imagery of ancient tattooing is very similar to that modern tattooing. Throughout history tattooing like other forms of body decoration has been related to sensual, erotic and emotional of aspects of the psyche. In many cultures tattoos are traditionally associated with magic, totems and desired of the tattooed person to become identified with the spirit of animal.
BORNEO TATTOO
Borneo is one of the few places in the world where traditional tattooing is still practised today. Archaeological evidence has shown that ancestor of some contemporary native tribes have lived in Borneo for 50,000 years. The term "Dayak" is applied to a variety of native tribes including the Ibans, Kayans, and Kenyahs.
Head hunting and tattooing were intricately connected in the magic, ritual and social life of many tribes. The hand tattoos was a symbol of status in life and also served important function after death. Many of the traditional tattoo designs resembles decorative motifs founds in the art of Bali and Java and the tattooing instruments and techniques.
Friday, 8 April 2016
MANAGING DESIGN
MANAGING DESIGN
This week I need to analyse and understand the ideology of that research design that I choose. I choose qualitative designs that is case study and historical. This type of research design is to study and understand a single situation, which could be a leader, a classroom, a process, program and activity. Collect a variety of material in a specific and bounded time period. This also used for historical studies.
Historical research is the process systemically examining past event to give an account of what has happened in the past. It is not a mere accumulation of facts and dates or even descriptions of past event.
It is a flowing, dynamics account of past event which involves an interpretation of these events in an attempt to recapture the nuances, personalities and ideas that influenced this events. One of the goals as historical research is to communicate and understanding of past events.
The following five give important reasons for conducting historical research (based on Berg. 1998)
1. To uncover the unknown (i.e., some historical events are not recorded).
2. To answer questions (i.e., there are many questions about our past that we not only want to know but can profit from knowing).
3. To identify the relationship that the past has to the present (i.e., knowing about the past can frequently give a better perspective of current events).
4. To record and evaluate the accomplishments of individuals, agencies, or institutions.
5. To assist in understanding the culture in which we live (e.g., education is a part of our history and our culture).
MANAGING DESIGN
MANAGING DESIGN
INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH DESIGN
Research Design is to ensure that the evidence obtained enables us to effectively address the research problem logically and unambiguously as possible.
Social Science research is to obtaining information relevant to research problem generally entails to test a story, to evaluate a program, to accurately describe and asses meaning related to an observable phenomenon.
FORMS OF RESEARCH
Research is a systematic inquiry used to describe, explain, predict and control.
There 4 main forms based on specific purpose :
1.Basic research- Descriptive in nature and is used to understand and explain phenomenon
- often conducted for the sake of increasing and advancing a knowledge base
2. Applied research- to provide information that can be used and applied in an effort to help people to understand and control their environment
- more prescriptive in nature and seek to offer potential solutions to problem
3. Evaluation research- to examine the processes and outcomes associated with particular solution to a problem
- may be formative-to improve solution or summative- to evaluate the effectiveness
4. Action research- often conducted within a program/organization/community(researcher are involved in gathering data and studying themselves.
There are two main approaches to a research problem- quantitative and qualitative methods,
1. Quantitative methods are used to examine the relationship between variables with the primary goal being analyse and represent that relationship mathematically through statistical analysis.
2. Qualitative methods chosen are chosen when goal of the research problem is to examine, understand and describe a phenomenon. These methods are a common choice in social science research problems and are often study ideas, belief, human behaviours and other research questions that not involve studying the relationship between variables.
Thursday, 7 April 2016
MEDIA DESIGN NEW TECHNOLOGY
MEDIA DESIGN NEW TECHNOLOGY
In this modules, I need to find out what is advertising campaign and from that I need to choose the brands that I want to promote.
An advertising campaign is a series of advertisement messages that shares a single idea and theme which make up an integrated marketing communication (IMC). Advertising campaigns appears in different media channel across a specific time frame that often need to be clearly defined. Modern advertising campaign often combine multiple online and offline channels.
Advertising campaigns are developed to achieve a particular goals or a set of goals. Such goals typically include establishing a brand, raising brand awareness, increasing the rate of conversion/sales. The degree of success or failure at reaching these goals is measured with analytic tools.
I choose Maggi because Maggi is known by worldwide especially in Malaysia. In Malaysia, Maggi is a famous household food or seasoning. Maggi company is originally started in Switzerland, when Julius Maggi took over his father's mill.
In Malaysia the theme of Maggi is Happiness is Home made because nothing compares to a home-cooked meal seasoned with love and care. There are many way for me to advertise the Maggi. One is new packaging but how I can get my target audience through packaging. It also happen in website page and the Maggi Cup design. So I choose to create new product for Maggi.
GROUP DESIGN PROJECT
EXHIBITION
An exhibition in the most general sense, is an organized presentation and display of a selection of items. In practise, exhibitions usually occur within museum, galleries, and exhibition halls and world's fair. Exhibitions can include many things such as art both in major museums and smaller galleries, interpretive exhibitions, natural history museums and history museums and also varieties such as more commercially focused exhibitions and trade fairs.
The word exhibitions is usually, but not always, the word used for collections of items. Exhibitions may be permanent exhibition or temporary but in a common usage 'exhibitions' are considered temporary-usually focus scheduled to open and close on specific dates. Some exhibitions are shown in multiple location are called 'travelling exhibitions'.
MUSEUM
A museum is an institution that cares for (conserve) a collections of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical or scientific importance and makes them for public viewing through exhibit that may be permanent or temporary. Some of most attended museums include the Lourve in Paris, the National Museum of China in Beijing, the British Museum in London.
DESIGN SYSTEM AND SERVICES
TASK 1
DESIGN SYSTEM AND SERVICES
From this task we need to find the weakness or gap in system that we choose, so that we can amends or create new system from this weakness.
I choose emoticons or emoji. Why? Even though emoticons is a common system that everyone has already use to show their inner emotions and to communicate with people without talking to each other but there are still weakness in the systems where emoticon can be difficult to to interprets and they sometimes could be misunderstanding between users. My focus is in Sarawak.
Emoticons make us better communications. Human are nothing if not social. So much so that we experience significant physical and psychological problems without social interactions. Krystal D'costa of Scientific American says: " As social beings we require consistent and frequent of confirmation of our social placement. This confirmation is vital to the preservations of our network-we need to able gauge the state of our relationship with other."
Another research is made by researchers at Tokyo Denki University, Japan founds that the more graphic the emoticon, the more our brain responds to it. As the emoticon becomes less abstract(or more human like) the brain responds accordingly.
Picture 1: Effect of using graphic emoticons in human brains by researchers at Tokyo Denki University. Taken at: https://dq9ucdqjq6nrk.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Yausa.jpg.
More graphics is the emoticon cause our brain to activate the temporal gyrus which is responsible for recalling biological motions. Humans understands emoticons to be emotional communications, which results of the activation of the right frontal gyrus as seen above.
My ideas is to create a new emoji using Iban language and Iban motif because it is my language and I want to create something that help my ethnics to communicate with each other more and others races also can learn different language using this emoji.
Picture 2: Iban motif of frog
Tuesday, 16 February 2016
INDUSTRIAL TRAINING REPORT
School of Media Arts
& Design @ Academy of Visual Art
Linton
University College
KTG
EDUCATION GROUP
BA
(Hons) Media Design Technology with Digital Arts
INDUSTRIAL TRAINING
REPORT
Name:
Alexis Lyndy Pantan anak Siman
Metric
Number: LMD4/14-04-00050
Company:
75 CELEBRATIONS
Address
of Company: No.110, Jalan Sekama, 93300 Kuching, Sarawak
ABSTRACT
On 30th November 2016, I
start my industrial training in 75 Celebrations company in my hometown Sarawak.
I’m doing my industrial training in Party Planner Company where I learn how to
decorate and planning the event for the clients and designing it from the theme
that they choose. Sometimes I would do some design for backdrop, photo booth
and some props for the event. I also learn about how to handle clients with
their wants and theirs opinions on what the event is about.
I also work alone in that company
because they only take one interns only.
INTRODUCTION
Industrial training is refers to work
experience that is relevant to professional development prior to graduations.
My industrial training start on 30th
November 2015 and end on 6th February 2016 at 75 Celebrations
company. It is a small company that doing decorations and planning an events
that the clients decided. Sometimes, the company also designs some banner,
backdrop and some favors like designing calendar or diary according to the
clients wants.
I choose this company because I want to
have experiences in working in the graphic design industries and interacts in
clients in this industries.
Usually I would design small things like
props and backdrops and hampers deco. Sometimes I my superior bring me to the
site or the event place to help them to deco, usually this is for the big event
like weddings. The clients that I would works with will thoroughly from my
superior. Because the company is small and they only take one intern so mostly
I work alone there with my superior.
TRAINING WORKS
My training works also start on my first
day of internship. Where I was given a job on creating membership card for a
beauty facial salon. The salon name is Born Beautiful Beauty Centre.
When I received this assignment, I was a
little bit confuse because my superior just give the envelope of how to be a
member of some certain Bank. Then I understand what she want me to do and I
check the client website and founded that they theme is purple. So I created
they card like this. Then they want the card with Christmas theme cards to be
given to the member of their beauty centre.
Pic 1: BB Loyalty Card
Pic 2: Christmas theme envelope
On second week and third weeks of
training, I was told to create design for TCS or Technology College Sarawak their
diary cover page in A5 size and their theme is sweet sixteen. Before I created
the cover page, I look up what is sweet sixteen theme is and found out it
consist on pastel type of colors like pastel pink, pastel blue and pastel
purple. So this my design on the cover page of the diary.
Pic 3: First design
Pic 4: Second Design
Pic 5: Third design
They choose the second design but
changing the theme into school theme where they use dark green that represent
black board in primary school because they want to put the TCS theme in the
diary. The TCS theme is green.
Then, they want to design calendar in
the diary also where they want the different in year 2015 and 2016, so I also
create the design of it.
Pic 6: 2015/2016 calendar
After that is the monthly calendar with
some place to write with in the diary. For example,
Pic 7: September monthly calendar
Lastly, for the TCS diary project work
is creating a template in the diary where the student could write what their
goal and resolution in year 2016.
Pic 8: TCS diary template.
Then on fourth week, I need to create a
photo booth for wedding and the theme is flowery, purple, pink and red and also
Japanese sakura theme. So this is the design that I come out with,
Pic 9: Wedding photo booth.
On the wedding day 28th
December after my Christmas holiday, I go to the site, Imperial Hotel, Grand
Ballroom No 5, Kuching, Sarawak with my superior to deco and putting the gift
to customers on glass wine.
Pic 10: Decorations
Pic 11: Table Deco
Pic 12: Photo Booth Out come
On
week 5, I’ve going to site for TCS New Year party that held at Hilton Hotel,
Kuching on 2nd January 2016. The theme is silver, gold and white. So
this is the outcome.
Pic 13: New Year party Deco
Pic 14: Table Deco and Helium Balloons
On week 7 before my
industrial training end, I also go to site which I meet my first client the
Born Beautiful Beauty Centre to decorate their salon in Chinese New Year theme
that also represent Monkey Years. So this is the picture after the decorations done.
Pic 15: Chinese New Year Deco
Pic 16: Chinese New Year Deco at Born
Beautiful
CONCLUSION
From this industrial training, I learn
that I need to done anything and finish it on time or before the event start. I
also learn how to handle clients that has too many requests and a little bit
confuse on what they want from my superior and also to avoid printing wastage
and costs when doing some projects.
I also learns about time management in
doing some projects and how to communicate with clients and also to give my
opinions on something without any push over.
REFLECTIONS
From my industrial training, I learn that I should have the confident in making my own decision on what I'm going to do. I also about the time management and to finish the job on the dateline given. I also about handling a clients and communication between a designer and their clients about their own decision.
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