Critical thinking [navigate me!]

Subj : Critical Thinking
Task : Navigate me !

For this task we need to go out from the collage and record all the thing that happen around us. We need to do a map for the place that we go but we are allow to use only sound to represent the place. At first I think it is very hard to do because there is some place that I think difficult to make sound such as the place like the grave and the sound of traffic light. But when we think over and over I came with the solution. It is true that the traffic light not have the sound and how I want to show that the traffic light are green or red? so I come with  the solution that is I make the sound of screeching of the car that will show that the car are break and want to stop. For the other way I make the sound of the car with the big typo and it show that the car are press the paddle and want to start to move.
Other than that I find out that although we use the different typography with the same color it will make the the map not look like a map. Therefor I use a difference of color to make it look more interesting and nice. I use the negative and positive technique for the rood to make it clear and can differentiate between the rood and the building along the rood side.

This is my first experiment using the software.

I think it is interesting because I start exploring the software by myself and learnt more about it. I can use more type of the typo and use a different size of it to make it look interesting. But I find out that sometime when we use our hand writing it will be more interesting but it's ok, because it just exploration and experiment for us to get some knowledge.

This is my experiment using hand writing and the process make it.

This is part of my work, I think it look interesting because we can write freely on it and also can make shape from it. I use different color of ball pen so it will look more interesting because people like to see thing which have 2 or 3 difference color. I also make the typo with a difference type and difference size.

This is my final art work for this task.

Postmodernism art

Subj : 20th Century Design
Task : Postmodernism 

In this week we need to create 3 images that relate to the postmodernism. As I know this image does not need the meaning why we make it that way and does not have the reason so I made the image that will show the Malaysia.

Figure 1 : Nasi lemak in plate drawing by aisyah

This is my first image, I make the painting of the Nasi Lemak on the plate. I choose nasi lemak because as we know in Malaysia, nasi lemak was a very famous food especially early in the morning. We also can assume it as a pop culture in Malaysia. We always see people use plate for putting the food that they want to eat so this time I make the plate as the place I draw my art. Why I choose this plate and not circle or square plate? this is because when I was child my mom always use this plate to feed me so I assume that this plate we use for child. Other than that we also will see this type of plate in the hospital and in the hospital there is many kind of people and it show the unity because all people use the same type of plate. In this art, plate mean that in every range of age will love and eat nasi lemak no mater whether they are young or old.

Image of pan: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/TyVkCTOOnYk/UWV5RcgY3RI/AAAAAAAAAtg/
VPMwmU1TOeQ/s1600/collectibles+002.JPG

Image of spatula : photo thake by Aisyah   

Image of astro : http://www.astro.com.my/images/astro-logo-magenta.png

The real image of astro
http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/astro-satellite-dish-300x199.jpg

This is my second image. I make a astro from the combination of the pan and the spatula. I choose this spatula and the pan because first the shape is look like the astro and the second is as we know that every house should have this two thing same goes to the astro. I notice that now days every house should have the astro as their family entertainment same goes to the pan and the spatula every house should have this two thing as a tool to cook. So I think this two object are needed and important in daily life.

This is the third image that I make it is a Durian the king of the fruit in Malaysia. I want to make  a sculpture of this fruit because this fruit represent Malaysia. As we know Durian was a very popular fruit in Malaysia it also call as a King of the fruit that why I make the sculpture with the crown. I make it gold color because it look like the royal color. 

Digital Design [class activity]

Subj : Digital Design
Activity In The Class

Yesterday we have a tutorial about how to do a tracing an image and we choose the logo of Starbucks it quite interesting because it can improve our skill in using illustrator. We can tracing an image either using pen tool or using the shape. For the logo that I tracing I use the shape circle and I also use the pen tool to make it. At first I find it difficult to do it but after the tutorial it easy to understand and I think I fall in love with the illustrator. This is the process of my work:

For this step I find that the typo for the word Starbucks and coffee is not in format and I need to buy it if I want to use it so I decided to use other typo that look similar to the original typeface. Therefore I use Microsoft YaHei UI bold as the typeface for the word Starbucks and coffee.

Secondly I make the icon at the center of the circle. I find out that the icon are same in the both side so I just make at the left side and then I reflect it to other side.

And this is my work it look like same except for the typography.

This is the real logo that I take from the internet
Retrieve from : http://pursuitist.com/starbucks-alice-olivia-dress-tumbler-bear/ 

The logo that I have trace using Illustrator

Reflective 

• Try to do as much as you can to make you really understand about the software.

Digital Design [midpoint review]

Subj : Digital Design
Midpoint Review

Early in this semester we are need to design a poster from the story that we have choose for me I choose the movie Snow White and the Seven Dwarf. As we see nowadays the poster that we see in the cinema have a lot of image they put all the actor at the poster but for this task we are need to minimize the using of the image. In this case we need to survey the story and the thing that they use in this story, for my story after the survey that I make I identify that the main thing is the apple and the snow so the poster that I made must have this two thing. Other than that learnt to use the software is the main thing in this subject I need to use the software for every task that I made such as illustrator, photoshop and many thing that relate to the task that I want to make.

For the second task we need to relate it to the first task, we need to make a movie sequence. This task take a long time to finish because we need to do a lot of work like understand the plot of  the story, design the character and do a movie sequence to the suitable design. For my movie sequence I made it on the plate because the main thing in my story is an apple, apple is a food that why I use the plate as a design for my movie sequence.

In digital design other than using the software we also need to use the phone, digital camera, and other thing to record the thing as an evidence. For the task 3 we need to use the phone to record the sound and take the picture. We need to identify the texture, the shape, the sound and the form of the object. From this research I  learnt that a different object we get a different texture, shape, sound and form although it a same object but it have a difference material will produce a difference texture, shape, sound and form.

20th Century Design [midpoint review]

Subj : 20th Century Design
Midpoint Review

For this subject I get to know the art deeply and learnt how to understand the picture. I also understand the art work and try to relate it to my work. For example the task about cubism I understand that the film can be made by using a photo because a different angle and situation can produce a different meaning such as the telephone although it a same object but it can bring a different meaning to the user. It same to our project about the Instagram, as we know the instagram are use to take a photo and share it with the public, try to record the environment that is nice or bad. Some of the picture sharing is about the food  or about the sport it depend to the interest of someone. for example the sport, there is many picture about sport but the way of taking picture and the situation bring the different meaning.

Beside that I also understand about dadaism it is a artwork that we make base on the expressing our feeling.This dadaism art have no rule and we can make it as a place to express our feeling or opinion about some issue. Many artist involve in this kind of art such as Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray and many more. For my project about dadaism I take Marcel Duchamp as my reference because my project is about transgender and I find out that one of the Marcel Duchamp art is a picture that he wear a women dress.

Surrealism is one of the field art that move from the realism art. The designer try to make something that is real using something else such as the project about soundscapes. In this project he try to make the sound of jungle by using the tape.

Conceptualism is an idea that we should think if we want to design something. Every single thing that we design should be have a concept for example the plate. The design of the plate for make the food clean and not mess. It have a place to make us easy to pick and look more polite.

Critical Thinking [midpoint review]

Subj : Critical Thinking
Midpoint Review

Critical thinking is the one of the  subject that I think need me to think harder from the first week until now. from this subject I learnt to look at the object and try to think critically like in the first week I need to use my imagination to think what I can made or draw with sugar case and the feather. Other than that I also learnt how to make my own typography. To design my own typography we need to really understand the structure of the typo and identifying what kind of way we want to make either using shadow, light or color paper. For my typography I using the color paper and the origami style.

Beside that from this subject I learnt to know my peer deeply trough their character. One of the task need us to describe about our self in 5 words. Therefore, we sit down and discuses what other peer know about our self. Sometime when we do task like this it make me realize about something that I do not know about my self but other person see it in our self and it could be right and could be wrong. After that we need to experiment using the software what type of typo should we use to represent the word and what color should we use to make it look attractive and representing the word.

    The peer opinion also very important to this subject because sometime we cannot see what other peer see in our work. Their opinion are very useful for us to improve our quality of work such as the task that we need to describe our self in 5 words. From our peer we can know what their opinion about our work and sometime they also give a tip to us for improve our work.

Lastly, from this subject I also learnt how to interpret the sound that we heard to the word. I learnt that not easy to interpret a sound sometime when we interpret it into the word it will produce other sound when other person read it. Other than that I learnt that when we sit down at some place we can heard many sound an this sound are very interesting. Beside that I also learnt to think critically about the sound of some place that is difficult to interpret it such as the sound of the house. It make me think hard and imagine what the sound that the house produce.

In conclusion I think this subject is a very interesting subject that require me to think deeply about something. This subject not only need my brain to be use but also my eye,ear and other part of my body to be functions for a good quality of work. Other than that the peer opinion also help in this subject because their opinion sometime will solve our problem in our work.

Method of investigation [midpoint review]

Subj : Method Of Investigation
Mid Point Review 

From the first week until today there is 4 task that we must do and from all this task I learnt many thing first is when I do a research about the web side that relate to the landscape I know the thing that we as a designer should consider when we want to make a landscape. We should think the effect to the nature and the environment like the web side that I read is about the green landscape. We should use the flora in our landscape for reduce the global warming and the green plan can provide more oxygen for our life.

 Other than that I also learnt thing from reading the book Architecture Design : Design for the third age : Architecture redefined for a generation of active ages AD by Farrelly, Lorraine I understand and know the thing that we should think before design something. From this book it preference the comfort for old people when you design something like the house. As the designer you also must think what the old people need to make their day go perfectly without any obstacle because of their healthy problems. This the text that I take from the book as my reference:

We thus asked ourselves: how can architecture, and our environment, create a positive impact for individuals and for communities? We discovered that a successful community needs to be multi-generational at its core. Older residents want to live near their more youthful counterparts. So, rather than focus on residents exclusively in the 65+ age bracket, our designs are intended to appeal to residents of all ages, including children. In this way, New Aging imaginatively embraces the philosophy of ‘ageing in place’, where the focus is on a rich and active life rather than on retirement and withdrawal. The natural liveliness that comes from a multinational community extends to an attitude of caring for all.

Hollwich, M. and Hoffman, M. (2014) Architectural design: designing for the third age: 

architecture redefined for a generation of ‘active agers’ ad.

Somerset: Wiley [Online] Available from: E-brary. http://site.ebrary.com [Accessed April 2014]

In addition we also have do a discussion about the research terminologies. In this discussion I understand and know the right way to make a research and what kind of research that I cant use for my work. One of the research is ethnographic, this research we can use when we want to find out the design relate to the culture of the ethnic. Like what my pear said about this research he said that  a different ethnic have a difference culture and every single culture have their own beauty. As a designer when we want to design something we should think not just about the beauty but we also must relate it to the culture of the ethnic.

 Beside that, we also do a discussion about the current issue like a discussion about the drug and the alcohol. From the discussion we know something relate to this issue like the alcohol in our food like a tapai, if we expose it to the sunlight and then we eat it we can be drunk. Other than that many people event a student put the paracetamol into the coke and use it as the pain killer it is not a good habit because it can damage our body system. Other than that drink a lot of coke also not good for our self because the sugar in the coke can cause disease like diabetes.

Lastly, I make a research and a proposal about Batik. In this research I want to know about:

• Cant batik apply on other thing like at wall or paper ?
• What the history of batik ? 
• The use of batik in Cheongsam  or Sari ?
• Suitable or not wear batik in every feast in Malaysia ?

This proposal still in draft and I hope that my proposal will help other designer in the future.