CRITICAL THINKING

Subj: Critical Thinking
Task 4: Packaging

In this task we are required to research about packaging and make report about it in power point. This the link of the power point. After making the research then we are required to find package and find out what is wrong in the packaging and make new packaging after choosing the package that we want to redesign.

 Critical Thinking: Packaging pp.

TITLE: PACKAGING DESIGN PROPOSAL

OBJECTIVE OF PROPOSAL: We are decided to make new packaging of the package of the soap package that you have now. We try to redesign the package to be reusable and more towards green.

USE OF THE DESIGN PROPOSAL/AIM: The design is to boost people towards green and reusable. The design also helping people to think about the paper wasting they done before by throwing away the package after taking the content. So I hope this design will change the way people thinking about eco product.

PROBLEM STATEMENT:

1. Using the glue to sticks the packaging together.

2. The wastage of paper that we use to made the packaging.

THE HIGHLIGHT:

1. We want to change the usage of glue in sticking the paper together by making slot to connected the package.

2. We want to make the package by using recycle paper to lower the cost and the wastage of paper been made.

RATIONALE: This product is too made people aware of the wastage of the paper that use by making the packaging. This product also recycle and can reuse to put other thing and this will help people think eco and helping to reduce the deforestation.

DIGITAL DESIGN

DIGITAL DESIGN PROPOSAL

TITLE: INSTALLATION ART OF DEFORESTATION PROPOSAL

OBJECTIVE:

      i.        We show the texture of the infertility soil after the deforestation on projector.

    ii.        We will use papers, newspaper or material that be made using tree to show the wastage of paper that human use and this lead to the active deforestation.

   iii.        Using made tree bark to show the deforestation that still happen nowadays and still happen in future if there no prevention and the imbalance of the world.

AIM: This project is to create awareness and let people think about the impact of deforestation    toward the world and preserving it for the next generation.

CONCEPT: Our concept is to show the impact/effect of the deforestation that happen now and toward the future and also happen if this kind of thing cannot be stopped. Our concept also is to let think or reflect about they done for the skyscraper building and ignoring the land they stand now.

MATERIALS: Newspapers, 2 rolls of fishing rope, recycle/unused papers, a bunch of chopsticks, a bunch of toothpicks, 1 bottle of white paint, 2 bottles of glue and wood filler, tree branch, tree age ring texture and tree bark texture.

THE DISADVANTAGES OF DEFORESTATION:

      i.       1. One of the disadvantages of the deforestation is global warming phenomena that lead towards of the increase in sea level and climate change this is because of the increasing temperature from the co2 emission.

      i.         2.  Deforestation also lead to the decrease of oxygen level and the increasing of carbon dioxide because the there are no tree to filter the carbon dioxide and changing it into oxygen.

      i.      3.  Deforestation also lead to the destruction of the wildlife habitat and this will lead to the extinctions, this will causing havoc in the biological food chain and the imbalance of the ecosystem.

      i.             4.  Deforestation also the cause of the soil erosion, without the tree, the soil will lose the fertility because the lack of nutrient and this cause of the desertification.

      i.        5. Deforestation also causing the flood or landslides, because on the heavy rain there no barrier between the rain and the soil because tree is the barrier between rain and land and slowing the rain flow.

      i.       6. Deforestation also the major cause of the greenhouse effect. It’s happen because of the emission of the co2 and it trapped the radiation from the sun and increasing the temperature and depletion of the ozone layer.

RATIONAL: We use the white paint for the tree bark because it is the base paint for the concrete building and this show that the modern things nowadays come from a single tree. We also put the tree stump on the wall to show the people now look up for the modernist for example skyscrapers and forgetting the land they stand on and everything that come from the land. 

20TH CENTURY DESIGN

For task 2, we learn about Dadaism concept, where we know it is a art movement that happen after the World War 1, where artists decided to protest the government and rejected the reason and logic. Dadaism also a change in artists where they start to change their artwork from paint and brush media to other media such as collage, photo montage, assemblage and ready made thing.

For me, Dadaism is controversy way of the young artist in that time to directly or abstractly hating government because of the war they created.

The famous artist of Dadaism that I like is Marcel Duchamp. His artwork The Fountains that using urinal place or toilet resemble the project that Aisyah and I doing for Dadaism project. We using 6 things that we collect and put in the box and exchange it around the group, so my group boxes with Jeffry group, where Aisyah and me get, bracelet, seashell, chains, 50 cents coin, oil container that been cut half, bulb, wire, batteries, plastic cup, polystyrene cup, tissue roll, masking tape, and soap.

Pic 1: Duchamp_Fountain retrieved at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Duchamp_Fountaine.jpg

So using this as references, we creating a sketches of idea on issue that we want to give awareness that happen know. Aisyah and I try to use this thing in the boxes to create topic of the awareness of transgender.  This idea of creating this topic is because of the another side of Marcel Duchamp, that is known as Rrose Selavy.

Pic 2:  Rrose Selavy the alter ego of DADA famed artist Marcel Duchamp taken by Man Ray in 1921 retrieved at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:RroseSelavy.jpg

REFLECTION

In learning Dadaism, I learn about the way artist try to change the way of making art and using art as a provocation or something that create scandalous by the way people change because of war that happen and using something new that did not use brush and painting. Mostly, I think Dadaism is something controversy by making direct and abstract approach.

20TH CENTURY DESIGN

Sub: 20th Century Design

Task: Post Modernism

In this art movement, we learn about an art that doesn't give meaning just making something that look differently from reality. PM also is an art that influental all creative industries including architecture. 

Modernism is a way  looking out for world, or an idea that developing a new way understanding or developing an Utopia or ideal world by creating something that definitely 360 degree differently from reality.

Artist made it because it is fun and 'POP' culture by creating something that already popular. For an example like a sculpture of Micheal Jackson by Jeff Koons or picture of Marilyn Monroe by Andy Warhol.

Pic 1: Marilyn Monroe by Andy Warhol retrieve from http;//artistme.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/marilyn.jpg.

Pic 2: Micheal Jackson and Bubbles by Jeff Koons retrieve from www.creativeboysclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/koons-2.jpg

The usage of PM is as Language of Advertisement such in television, newspaper, politician and much more. PM is also simulation about reality for an example Matrix film that the world they live is created by computer program and the reality is the way round.

Pic 3: Matrix Film Poster retrieve from  http://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/stltoday.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/2/80/280bade4-c0b3-5b7e-a2f5-919b80c4e899/515e1cdc57f19.preview-699.jpg

In PM we understand the world with images but the reality of the images is what we are feeling right now. PM is a work of pastiches. Pastiches is a work of visual art, literature or music that imitates the style or character of the work of one more other artist.

PM also an art that involves reality and simulacrum that you see doesn't mean it exist or the thing that you look it is not the same of the reality.

REFLECTION

In learning PM, I conclude that this art movement is something that weird and it sometimes doesn't bring any meaning. 

DESIGN STUDIO_CONCEPTUALIZATION

Subj: Task 3: Design process 

In this task, we work continuously from this task to another task to created last thing from the object that we choose. So I work with hair roller to create form, so from a sets of hair roller, I connected each of the hair rollers to make form. It sort of like Lego but I need to cut some to make it more stable and created it again.

Then, after creating the form, we make it as a functional thing. First, I want to create pencil holder by connecting the hair roller with chopstick and tied it with string. Then, when I at home, when I look for the space of drying clothes, I try to create the a clothes stopper by make a hole in each segments and connected it with string but I face the problem in the space between the clothes that help it to dry.

Then I change the idea, where I put 1 cloth in one hair roller. So the way I want to is to make the clothes stopper to be good in spaces.

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. 

20TH CENTURY DESIGN

CONCEPTUALISM

Conceptualism is an idea. (Generally it taken to be an idea or reason how the work to be/ trigger the mind for the artwork. Concept may be relay to something that may or not may related to the thing in past to developed the future. Concept and object bring a different way of understanding. Concept can be something that functional or something that can be aesthetics and object is mostly about the function and the way to use.

For the report, I had been doing this project in Design Studio-Conceptualization of form. First, I use the hair roller as Lego. First concept is playing around the hair roller to create form from connecting the hair roller around. Then, we were asked to create from not functional form to functional form, so I created a clothes stopper. This idea trigger because of the limited space of drying clothes in my house and also how to stop the clothes bunch with others clothes. So I use the hair roller by connecting them with string.

If I decided to develop this prototype, 2 concepts that I should think of is about the ecology and design problem space.

For ecology, I need to change the materials that I use because plastic need longer time to dispose and I should think of something that could help with the problem that happen. First, we can use recycle hair roller that already break or we can use another type of material. For me, I would like to use rattan or bamboo because of my culture. For the string, I could choose a biodegradable material or dye the string with the natural pigment that can be found in plants or flowers. This is because, the string that I use is using chemical to bleach to make it white or I can use rattan rope to connect each bamboo roller to create the clothes stopper.

About the design problem, is what measurement that I should have. “Should I make it too long or comfortable with the user or should I use hook to connect it to the wall or I should nail it permanently there?” Using this question, I need to make research about furniture design and famous artist that has a good design in this field of study or look about rattan furniture or artist that creating something from nature, for an example there are designer that created a bicycle from bamboo.