Mortar & Pestle

5 random things that lecturer want us to think about.

During this lesson, we are given a chance to think of something new from existed object.

Based on the key words given, this is what I can think of...

pestle can be use as a tools for exercise. Save money from buying exercising tools.

Mortar can be use to protect coconut. In some places, it has possibilities that animal eat the coconut. To ptotect from animal it can be cover by mortar. The pestle can be use to crack the coconut shell as well.

On the beach, It could be part of the tools to make sand castle. Put sand into the mortar to get the shape.

It can be a decoration as well.

Finally, it can be invent into music instruments. It might create new sound from it.

Juxtaposition

Juxtaposition mean 'the act of positioning close together'(side by side) by [source].

In the lecture, it also been explain by our lecturer about juxtaposition. It can simply be defined as placing two subject together or side by side to show their contrast or similarity. In creative processes, this method usually being rely on to create awareness or just to make the artwork looks better.

In the picture above, juxtaposition can be explain by the polar bear, penguin and igloo that placed together. It creates similarity among themselves.

While the picture below showing two girls with difference in their appearance. It create contrast either on the bikini girl or the woman holding the sandals.

Street Art

What came to your mind when someone say about street arts?

Most of the time people will think of vandalism, where people paint and spray on public properties. No matter what it was, it somehow still part of what we called as 'art'.

If we think it in different ways, it actually makes abandon buildings or walls look colourful.

Ignore graffiti and whatever came up in your mind about street art.

How about something like the pictures shown below?

Anything can be seems to impressed people in different ways depending on how we look upon that particular things. Everything have their own positive and negative that make it balance.

How people judge on it is different issue.

No matter what, I insists that without all this people trying their best to expressed thru art, life would be very dull and fade. There would be no colours exist.

If you travel to Italy, most of the students from their own arts academy or street artists using floor on the street as their medium to draw. From early morning, they can be seen sitting on the streets that crowded with people passing by. Most of the time, they draw until late night and once they done their artwork, they washed it away with water and start again drawing new things the next day on the floor.

They just doing what they think they want to do just to satisfy themselves.

It's worth for what they are doing... (who cares?)

Mind Map - MySelf

After the past lecture that taught about mind mapping, we are required to come up with our own digital mind map and here it is.

A simple logical mind map introducing myself

A short briefing about myself :

I just graduated from TarCollege with Diploma in Mass Comm (Graphic Design) and currently study at MMU in Media Innovation. I love to draw graffiti and vector art and most of urban arts. Like to listen to music very much.

I wish to learn more software related to design to improve my skills for my future.

Magic or Illusion?

Magic which can be define as part of an entertainment by creating illusions for something that seems impossible become possible. It had been practiced throughout the history. To learn extra information of what magic is about and its history, go Wiki.

These people looks familiar, don't they?

...Well known Magician...

What is interesting here is that how 'magic' came to us at the first place? It is a creative idea to use illusion and tricks to entertain audience. Different magician used different ways of tricks. Their imaginations are good to make people believes what they see with their naked eyes.

These day, magic no longer a secret for magician, since it can be find and learnt everywhere. Some magician even published books about their own magic. It became more to an entetrtainment rather than a myth or supernatural, like what the oldies believe it was.

Lesson 3 - Method of Creative Thinking

Creative thinking including both convergent and divergent thinking.

Divergent thinking

Jus like the figure shown above, divergent thinking involves exploring and generating new ideas by brainstorming, look for alternatives for the problem and so on. This would be the most important step for artists and designers to explore the tasks given before they can move on.

Convergent Thinking

After the solution being diverge, we need to find the best way to get the answer and it require convergent thinking. At this moment, all sorts of possibilities, solution and ideas that generates in the mind group together to get a solution.

Unfortunately, everyone in the world including you and me is either good in divergent or convergent thinking, usually not at both. Just like the studies of right brain and left brain that controls different tasks in our mind.

MIND MAP

Tony Buzan introduced this method call mind map for generating ideas and brainstorming. It increase the interests of both the creator and viewer.

There are few techniques or sort of like rules while creating a mind map. As it have two types of mind map which is logical mind map and associated mind map, both have their own characteristics that seems similar by the appearance but not the message being delivered.

Logical mind map

It directly connecting the images and words in the mind map through links. All the images and words are related to the subject in the central. This kind of mind map are common and often can be seen.

Associated mind map

In this mind map, the words or images that links to one another can be not related to the subject. It is very random and do not directly related to the subject given.

Toys

I am one of the fans of Transformers. I just start to read and look for information about Transformers recently, affected by the movie series of the Transformers. Before that, Transformers only released in cartoon series for more than 20 years since the first that came out was somewhere around 1984.

Just showing Optimus Prime, the leader of Autobot

(Most of you all should know Transformers more than I do. So I just showing some of the pictures to see how the character change from time to time)

First, the 'old school' Optimus Prime

Optimus Prime in Animated series since 2007

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Great achievements and great character designs. Movie series directed by Micheal Bay.

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It influence alot on the society until some companies are actually following the trends to bring up their own brands. Just like the picture shown below, in 2007 Nike had come up with its shoe designs that can transform into robotic figure. The scale of the shoe is slightly smaller than the original.

The designers are creative enough to think of such a things to combine robot and shoe.

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Novelty, Creativity, Innovation and Invention

Since the first lecture I attended, we were taught about definition and understanding of creativity. In this post, I would like to write about novelty, innovation and invention that comes together with creativity that brings significance to our society today.

I want to share a phrase quoted by lecturer in the slides that says,

"Being creative is seeing the same thing as everybody else but thinking of something different"

(Shekerjian, D. 1990)

This phrase quite make sense to me because although everyone is looking at the same thing like what we did but everyone is thinking differently and imagine it in different way. This can be explain in a simpler way.

......Just think of a pencil......

Everyone will comes out with different kind of pencil, with difference in brands, length, colours, quality, quantity or some even think of a pencil with broken lids.

This shows that everyone have their own imagination although we are talking about the same things.

Novelty

The definition gave by the lecturer says that novelty is the quality of being new. It explains that novelty exists in the subjective perceptions of individuals or groups. Someone cannot blame that he/she knows everything and judge thing from that point but instead, everyone will judge something based on their perceptions on how they look upon that particular things.

Innovation

Innovation is the process of improving something that already existing into something new. How to be called as innovation is that the idea or thoughts have to be satisfy specific neeeds like economic cost and people will pay for it.

This can explain what Thomas Edison did. He never create light bulb but innovate light bulb becoming more practical, economical and safe to use.

Invention

Inventors are people who take existing knowledge and create new ideas. It usually comes together with novelty, creativity and innovation, where they rely on each other in order to create something new for the society.