They TLG

"Graffiti is the best medium to communicate through visuals between artist and society"

quotes THEY.

One of Malaysian Graffiti Artist, THEY started his street art for more than ten years and being more active in nearly six years ago. The reason I would like to introduce him and his members is that we should be proud of our own country with our own artist and our own creativity.

TheyArtStudio started at 2004 following by 'TLG art movements'

He is recognized by National Art Gallery for his graffiti. He has represent Malaysia for 'Great Anatolian Meeting of the World Cultures & Youth 2009' at Ankara Turkey for his live graffiti paintings.

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It won't be enough without showing some visuals of part of his artwork outside the country.

Do you still remember the Shanghai Expo?

Malaysia Pavilion Shnaghai World Expo 2010.

He and his teammates painted the rooftop.

Besides that, He also went to Thailand for FunFair 2010 events happening on April.

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Part of the pictures taken while he teaching the children to colour.

More of his achivements:

-Won Piala Seri Endon Batik Award 2008

-Won The Star Designer Award 2004

-Won Best Student Award MIA 2004

visit his Facebook, Myspace and Website for more of his artworks.

Enjoy!

Defining Creativity

During this lecture, we were taught more detailed about creativity after it been briefed during past lecture. According to few resources that can be found online, like Wikipedia, uwsp, and some other writer and philosopher, I can make a conclusion about the definition of creativity.

Creativity can be define as the ability and power to generate ideas and thought into reality. The process including critical thinking and the creativity process itself.

It is true to be said that, there is no longer any originality can be found in todays' designs and even it have, it is hard to be found. However, creativity helps designer to elaborate and used up others people designs as part of their work by generating different thought and ideas on it which seems to be different from others. Hence, it create an originality onto the piece of artwork through creative process.

Here is part of the history about light bulb. Thomas Edison is not the first who created light bulb but Humphry Davy did. What Thomas Edison do was just to improve what had existed becoming more practical, safe and economical. ( Resources from here.)

Put the history aside and let me ask you a question. Is it a light bulb can only be just a light bulb? Everyone can be creative enough to produce something and generate new thoughts to others. Just like the picture below, a light bulb can be something else, depending on how you look upon a things.

A simple exercise is given by the lecturer for this lesson, which is to edit a friend's photo up to your personal skills and creativity.

Top: Original photo

Below: Edited

My idea was to create the image of my fren in a vector mode rather than editing on the photo itself. It seems to be more fun in which we can add in simple shapes to make it looks totally different.

Territory Magazine

I just attended week 2 lecture yesterday, in which the lecturer taught more further about creative and creativity. In my 2nd post, I would like to share a magazine which I bought recently.

Territory Magazine

A short brief about its history, this magazine was concieved in 2004 by Bigbros Workshop. It evolves along with all sorts of design and illustration in its own way. Territory Magazine has open up spaces to connect international and local designers. It creates a reflection on present and future designs.

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Picture below is a screenshot of its webpage.

To read more further about Territory Magazine in the webpage, click on the link.

Most recent Territory Magazine, Volume 12: Crests of Creativ

Released on: 1st May 2010

Top: Jacket of the magazine

Below: Front cover of the magazine

Territory Magazine, Volume 11: Design Crusaders

The reason why I share this magazine in my blog is because we can make it as references for our own design and as part of our moodboard. Moreover, there are few local designers being interviewed and their artwork can be found in the magazine.

In volume 11, local artists like Yayawoo and Kawakong showing part of their work in the magazine.

Territory Magazine can be purchased at:

Basheer Graphic Books Sdn Bhd

TF001, Bukit Bintang Plaza,

Jalan Bukit Bintang,

Kuala Lumpur 55100

Malaysia.

Basheer @ Borders, The Curve

Basheer @ Borders, The Gardens Mall

Being Creative

Based on my own perception:

Creativity is a process of being creative. Creative is the ability and power to create something new or extraordinary which looks special and unique from other.

The very first lesson have taught me ways of being creative. Mr Yap Sau Bin gave out his briefing on Creative Studies for the whole lecture. Part of the lecture explained about creative thinking. In order to be creative, someone would have to think out of the box and think in different dimensions to get the best result.

Artists and designers will tend to scratch their head to get an idea. Creative mind will lighten up when ideas goes in and gone. Only some will remained and these ideas are the one that helps in the creative process.

People will keep on trying through out the process to be creative. Imagination need to be good to see things differently. Just like the picture below, not everyone can imagine it to be like this.
I am expecting to learn more about being creative in order to become a successful designer in the future. I hope to learn a better ways of thinking through out the process of being creative.