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Sadum: Traditional and Contemporary
Get PDFSadum is one of the traditional cloths of the Batak people in North Sumatra. It is woven on a back strap loom with supplementary weft technique. Sadum is a warp faced weaving made of cotton and beads woven into the cloth. Ritually it is used as a shoulder cloth, gifts exchanges, and in dances. It also bears the symbol of good tidings and blessings for the receiver. The cloth has change during times in technique, color, patterns, as well as in functions. But the use as a ritual cloth stays the same. The basic weaving techniques and equipments used to create it hasn't change, but its material and added techniques has made this cloth become more rich in color, pattern, and texture. Most changes began when the Europeans came to Indonesia and introduced new material such as synthetic fibers and colors. In the 70s traditional cloth of Indonesia got its boost when the government declared batik as Indonesian national attire. This encourages other traditional weavings to develop into contemporary clothing. Later, new techniques and material were introduced to the Sadum weavings including embroidery, silk and golden threads which were never used before
Form and Function of Carrying Tools in Traditional and Contemporary Culture
Get PDFThe Javanese Traditional Carrying Tools are categorized into two kinds based used of materials: anyaman made of woven bamboo or rattan and the other was made of cloth. The Traditional Javanese Carrying Tools that were made of bamboo/ rattan is actually a kind of container with different shapes. The types of goods that were brought was related to the shapes of the containers, demonstrate the type of interactions between the carrier and the goods. The Traditional Carrying Tools made of cloth have the flexibility in terms of being the containers of the carried goods. Selendang is used to carry goods, including the bamboo/ rattan containers and to carry babies. It can be used rumpled and straightened depends on the technical needs of carrying tools preferred by the user. In contemporary culture, the form and design of carrying tools more less construct by fashion and trends besides those practical used. Some product are being 'classic', some other are being 'fad'. Both products, traditional and contemporary have their own style, uniqueness, and own context. Analyzing both in design point of view is important as evaluation process, to finding new problems that will be starting point to create new products. Indonesia is well known for its abundant richness in traditions, which include the culture, the art, and the traditional products. Such treasure of traditions can inspire the development and invention of various kinds of artwork and current products
Visual Pollution in the Context of Conflicting Design Requirements
Get PDFAll designs (graphic, product, and interior designs) are directed to consider certain requirements which are followed by logical thinking to fulfill a design process. Once the requirements of each design have been well-considered and the logical design process has been fulfilled, the design is complete. Ideally, all designs are not supposed to be in conflict with each other because each one is based on a logical design process. In reality, however, the mutual existence of these designs has produced conflicting requirements and thereby conflicting logics. This conflict can be seen in visual pollution. This paper will examine the impact of visual pollution caused by billboards, street signs, posters, houses/buildings, automobiles, shopfront graphic designs, packaging designs, graffiti, etc. in the context of conflicting logics/requirements. Today, opposition grows everywhere against all visually polluting designs and outdoor advertising is the most prominent one. Some people think that it should be banned from the city. Some others, however, think that if advertisements are removed from the city, it will become a bland concrete jungle. Every city in Indonesia needs a clean-city law to control illegal advertisements and signs. It is possible to make legal yet attractive advertisements that will give positive contribution to "visual democracy" in Indonesia
Design Issues and Information Contents of the Provincial Government Websites of Indonesia: A Content Analysis on Visual Messages
Get PDFA website is not just merely act as an object of displaying information, but it also represents a contextual medium of communication through visuals and contents. The interplay of website design elements builds up meanings that affect users beyond what previous communication practices have uncovered. Previous research acknowledges that visuals and contents have significant effects in attracting users' attention and trust. Thus, the ability of a website to provide credible information through visuals and contents to target users is therefore plays great importance in the success of a website. However, although a considerable number of researches on website design have been performed, study in understanding the characteristics of site's visual appearances and information contents for the purpose of promoting local investment in Indonesia has been very limited. This paper addresses visual design issues and information contents of eighteen provincial government websites of Indonesia. Through content analysis, the paper comparatively examines visual appearances, information contents, and functions of each website, in order to determine visual characteristics and contents that suit the purpose of promoting local potencies. The paper focuses on commonality, discrepancy, and pattern of contents, provide suggestions to improve the use of provincial government website design of Indonesia
Komik Fotokopian Indonesia 1998 – 2001
Get PDFComics have become an integrated part in Indonesian history. It also has a good prospect to continuously growing in modern media. As one of the medium of free expression, Indonesian comics has been experiencing its ups and downs over several decades. The growth of photocopied comics in Indonesia in year 1990s has become one of the important phases of a whole Indonesian comics development and movement. As a milestone, it is interesting to know further about the contexts of these photocopied comics. The main sources for this research are the photocopied comics collected by writer himself, and thereby this research only focused at a specific period of time between the years 1998 to 2001. Data being analyzed includes the internal contexts of comic, consisted of its 'soul' (theme, story, casting, and story background), and its 'body' (illustration), and the external contexts (illustrators, production - distribution, and readers). One of the challenges in doing this research is that not all of the photocopied comics mentioned what year it is being published. However, those comics are still analyzed considering they are in the same timeline with the rest. Writer is also perforced to exclude some comics, because they were not photocopied, but printed. This research tries to keep its focus to internal and external contexts of these photocopied comics, with sociological and anthropological approach.As a general conclusion, it can be said that social mind theme and theme from photocopied comics are complementary one another. Humor comic type and men gender comic figure from middle-weight predominates, so do with urban setting. The influence of manga visual style can be easily found, and most of comics’ creators are men who lived in Jakarta.By the end of this article, the author projects Indonesian comics prospect - not only its photocopied ones - in the future
The Revival of the Usage of Natural Fibers and Natural Dyes in Indonesian Textile
Get PDFIndonesia is known to possess abundant natural resources as well as a diverse textile tradition. Some examples of traditional textile materials are those made from indigenous natural fibers, such as silk, cotton, ramie, pineapple fibers, and banana frond fibers, which make use of natural dyes. The specific natural back ground and unique cultural tradition of a region strongly influence the creative process of local textile artisans and the visual form of textile works. After the invention of synthetic dyes, the usage of natural dyes has gradually decreased. However, the optimism in using traditional dyes recently emerges in the textile world in Indonesia. This tendency grows along with the issues of awareness of nature and the soaring popularity of back-to-nature lifestyle. This study attempts to identify the relations between the usage of natural dyes in the past and its relevance to contemporary contexts. This study focuses on several topics, firstly the past role of natural dyes and the invention of synthetic dyes which outgrow natural dyes. Then, this study aims to explain why natural dyes are recently being reused in textile, which leads to identifying the contemporary position or role of natural dyes, besides the existence of synthetic dyes which technically possess various advantages. This study also aspires to identify the advantages and shortcomings of natural dyes based on the consumers' acceptance and certain contexts. The method used in this study is the qualitative descriptive method through interdisciplinary approaches
Pengaruh Modernisme terhadap Aplikasi Ragam Hias pada Desain Masjid Salman-ITB Karya Ahmad Noe’man
Get PDFThis research will focus on the Ir. Achmad Noe'man perspective symptoms of decoration on the Salman ITB mosque that are designed around 5 (five) decades ago, namely in 1959. Methodologically this study is a descriptive research approach to the Social History of Art. Objects are selected based on observation and the assumption that the role of decoration in the mosque he designed had a very strong reduction compared to the tradition of decorating the mosque during this time both in Indonesia and foreign countries. Ornamental pattern as the heart of Islamic art is not as important anymore in the eyes of the architect. And of course it contains a variety of reasons or background concepts and ideas that cannot be separated from the situation at that time. In Salman mosque seemed how strong the desire of Achmad Noe'man to go with the flow and current popularity of modernism which is too simple and functional, also inspired by the purism, though as a Muslim architect, he has the concept and other perceptions about the value of beauty in a more contemplative and transcendent. That is, although the ideology that is reflected in the Salman mosque is very secular in accordance with the concept of modernism, but Achmad Noe'man not lose power as well as spiritual. From the observations made can be concluded that the spirit factor of the time was very influential towards the constellation of decoration on some modern mosques in Indonesia at that time (Istiqlal, for example), but understanding the sense in the application shift of decoration on the modern mosque's created by Noe'man Achmad means that it also refers to the private contemplation (inner value) which tend to be more stable than the influence of his understanding of the flow of thought, academic factors, political, and spirits that tend to be volatile times like a fashion phenomenon
Persuasi Melalui Ilustrasi dalam Iklan Cetak
Get PDFSince our childhood we learn reading as well as writing, but drawing has become something unimportant, until we are often left behind when figuring out what is the meaning and function of a visual image. On the other hand, we are surrounded by visual images which become more increased and more sophisticated, until we are unconsciously affected with many kinds of visual images we perceived. Through observation and visual analysis towards newspaper's printed advertisements within a certain time, it will explain us how the power of illustration, either photography or hand made, is in purpose to get attention and to persuade the target audience. Collaboration between visualization of text messages and visual messages will make the ads more effective
Paradigma Individual Konstruksi Identitas dalam Desain Hibrid: Ilusi Dimensi Tunggal Identitas yang Bersifat Kolektif Studi Kasus: Desain Rumah Tionghoa Peranakan
Get PDFSince a period of Abdurrahman Wahid government in reformation era who eliminated the prohibition to celebrate and express Chinese culture, Chinese people in Indonesia as if try to reinvent their Chinese identity. They try to represent the identity through their material culture, including the residential design. But is there anything that so pure called 'Chinese identity ' since in its development history, the Chinese culture in Indonesia has been intervened by other local cultural spaces like in Java, colonist culture, including modern one which are intervening each others, until becoming its hybrid form right now, called Chinese peranakan. Ethnical collective identity and effort to homogenize it on the base of essential sameness in culture (culture core) are illusive because in fact there are various cultural ideology orientations in the Chinese peranakan culture in Indonesia. Hybrid design represents the existence of third social space which means representation system having non-categorical character: becomes Javanese and Chinese altogether, even hybrid but also at the same time not both. Through semiotic approach, it is found that the hybrid is intervention space between design patterns (langue), parole and specific context of consumer. The dialogue has created the individual paradigm in hybrid design approach. The dialogue between individual contexts at the end forms collective identity network. The system moves from inside outward. It is different with common logic that assumes collective identity forms the individual one, not on the contrary
The Nature of Ismail Zain’s Art: A Different Vision in Malaysian Contemporary Art
Get PDFThis study is an exploration of Ismail Zain’s art, one of the pioneers in new media art in Malaysia. It will focus on his outstanding display in Digital Collage exhibition, an exhibition was notable by art critics from Malaysia and Asia Pacific as the touchstones of a new approach in art which was a non-personalized medium that specifically depended on highly mechanized consideration. The purpose of this study is to explore Ismail’s art in terms of the process itself. In order to understand the nature Ismail’s art, there are three important questions: What are the idea and concept in his art? What are the medium and technique that were used in his art? How was the artwork itself? These questions are addressed by data gathered in Malaysia through collection of the artifacts, documents regarding interviews, and some institutional historical resources. The data have been divided and presented into the following themes: (a) conception, (b) operations and (c) synthesis