Final Project Video: Mp3 T-shirt

A short video on the Mp3 T-shirt.

Sketches for the Final Project

The 50 Sketches:


















Composition:








Final Decision:

Final Project Process

Title: Mp3 T-shirt

Juxtaposition for the topic:







The proposal essay:









Mind-Maps:









Random words for the Design Idea:

Lesson 7: Random Words

Class event on Random Words:
Lecture - Mr. Radzi
Topic: Random Words

Lesson 6: Exploration Juxtaposition

Class Event: My drawings and answers.
Lecturer - Mr. Radzi
Topic: Juxtaposition

Photo Share: Juxtaposition

http://www.seewald.com/portugal_photos-3.htm

Compare and contrast between two houses.





http://www.travelpod.com/travel-blog-entries/thymeoff/thyme_off/1135129440/tpod.html

Compare and contrast between two different characteristics.




http://jokes.cosmobc.com/

A funny photo that compare and contrast the same pose by the human and animal.

Lesson 5: Juxtapostion

A lesson by Ms. Tasya.

Juxtaposition can be defined as placing two variable, side by side and their contrast or similarity are shown through comparison. Many creative processes rely on juxtaposition. By juxtaposing two objects or words next to each other, human brain will automatically associate or transfer meaning. Usually ‘turning’ something familiar to something less familiar or vice-versa.

Juxtaposition is the arrangement of two or more ideas, characters, actions, settings, phrases, or words side-by-side or in similar narrative moments for the purpose of comparison, contrast, rhetorical effect, suspense, or character development.

Juxtaposition may refer to juxtaposition (literary) and random juxtaposition.

Juxtaposition (literary), synonymous with contrast, two objects or texts that oppose one another.

In linguistics and semantics, contrast is a relationship between two discourse segments. Contrast is often overtly marked by markers "such as", "but" or "however".

The majority of the studies done on contrast and contrastive relations in semantics has concentrated on characterizing exactly which semantic relationships could give rise to contrast. Earliest studies in semantics also concentrated on identifying what distinguished clauses joined by and from clauses joined by but.

In discourse theory, and computational discourse, contrast is a major discourse relation, on par with relationship like explanation or narration, and work has concentrated on trying to identify contrast in naturally produced texts, especially in cases where the contrast is not explicitly marked.

In literature and film, juxtaposition is the arrangement of two opposing ideas, characters, objects, etc. side-by-side or in similar narratives for effect. Juxtaposition techniques are used to further develop the storyline or characters - it is applied variously to opposing emotions, abstract concepts, character traits/values, or images.






My own simple research on "Juxtaposition".

- The act of positioning close together.
- A placing or being placed in nearness or contiguity, or side by side, often done in order to compare/contrast the two, to show similarities or differences.

Juxtapose is place side by side.
Juxtaposed is placed side by side often for comparison.

So, a simple explanation for juxtaposition is

To place two different things side by side.

Video Share: Mind Maps

Buzan: mind maps make you smarter

Tony Buzan, inventor of the mind map, was in Hong Kong to promote the system to local students.

Lesson 4: Logical Mind Map 2

A lesson by Sir Radzi Bedu

Mind mapping is a great tool for idea generation and brainstorming. It enhance both sides of the human brain and widely used in taking notes, research or generating new ideas. A creative Mind Map is able to stimulate and create interest to the individual and also to the viewer. By Tony Buzan.

Logical Mind Map
The Logical Mind Map is directly connected to stereotypes. The Logical mind map comprises of solely stereotype words. Which means that every word or image that is put within the mind map is directly related to the central subject through its links.

Associated Mind Map
Using an associated mind map we are able to generate random words and also show the links between words that seemingly have no connection.



Homework: A mind-map of myself.





Logical Mind Map in Practice: Mortar and Pestle

Image Share: Mind Maps

http://www.onearth.org/blog/whats-happening-on-earth/one-for-the-climate-warriors-toolbox

Mind Map on: Solving Global Warming






http://www.mindmapart.com/try-mind-mapping-paul-foreman/

Mind Map on: Try Mind Mapping






http://studymatrixart.wordpress.com/2008/04/23/steps-to-a-loving-relationship-mind-map/

Mind Map on: Loving Relationship






http://studymatrixart.wordpress.com/2008/04/23/6-keys-to-happiness-mind-map/

Mind Map on: More Happiness






http://www.tt-group.net/text/Mind_maps/Mind-maps-Past-Simple-Tense.htm

Mind Map on: The Past-Simple Tense

Lesson 3: Logical Mind Map

Mind Map:
-is a great tool for idea generation and brainstorming.
-widely used in taking notes, research or generating new ideas.
-able to stimulate and create interest to the individual and also to the viewer.

Logical Mind Map: directly connected to stereotype/

Associated Mind Map: able to generate random words and also show the links between words that seemingly have no connection.

From the Week 4 class
Logical Mind Maps & Stereotype
We have to understand what is stereotype before start a Logical Mind Map.

Stereotype is a conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion or image.

The rules of Logical Mind-mapping:
1. Subject (Title) must in the center of the image.

2. Subject have to more dominant than the rest of the words in the mind map.

3. Decide main categories before executing on mind map.

4. Different categories, different color or different image.

5. Use drawing or image to make the mind map more interesting, attractive and personal.

6. The ideal mind map should shaped like branching out from a center.


Additional Knowledge:

Pestle and Mortar concept.
A mortar and pestle is a tool used to crush, grind, and mix substances. The pestle is a heavy bat-shaped stick whose end is used for pounding and grinding, and the mortar is a bowl, typically made of hard wood, marble, clay, or stone. The substance is ground between the pestle and the mortar.

In design world, the substance is the problem we need to solve, the mortar is the material we choose to solve while pestle is the method we use to solve.






My small research on Mind Map, Brainstorming and Stereotype.

Mind Map is a diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks, or other items linked to and arranged around a central key word or idea. Mind maps are used to generate, visualize, structure, and classify ideas, and as an aid in study, organization, problem solving, decision making, and writing.

The elements of a given mind map are arranged intuitively according to the importance of the concepts, and are classified into groupings, branches, or areas, with the goal of representing semantic or other connections between portions of information. Mind maps may also aid recall of existing memories.

By presenting ideas in a radial, graphical, non-linear manner, mind maps encourage a brainstorming approach to planning and organizational tasks. Though the branches of a mindmap represent hierarchical tree structures, their radial arrangement disrupts the prioritizing of concepts typically associated with hierarchies presented with more linear visual cues. This orientation towards brainstorming encourages users to enumerate and connect concepts without a tendency to begin within a particular conceptual framework.

The mind map can be contrasted with the similar idea of concept mapping. The former is based on radial hierarchies and tree structures denoting relationships with a central governing concept, whereas concept maps are based on connections between concepts in more diverse patterns.




Brainstorming is a group creativity technique designed to generate a large number of ideas for the solution of a problem. In 1953 the method was popularized by Alex Faickney Osborn in a book called Applied Imagination. Osborn proposed that groups could double their creative output with brainstorming.

Although brainstorming has become a popular group technique, researchers have not found evidence of its effectiveness for enhancing either quantity or quality of ideas generated. Because of such problems as distraction, social loafing, evaluation apprehension, and production blocking, brainstorming groups are little more effective than other types of groups, and they are actually less effective than individuals working independently. In the Encyclopedia of Creativity, Tudor Rickards, in his entry on brainstorming, summarizes its controversies and indicates the dangers of conflating productivity in group work with quantity of ideas.

Although traditional brainstorming does not increase the productivity of groups (as measured by the number of ideas generated), it may still provide benefits, such as boosting morale, enhancing work enjoyment, and improving team work. Thus, numerous attempts have been made to improve brainstorming or use more effective variations of the basic technique.




Stereotype is a commonly held public belief about specific social groups, or types of individuals. The concepts of "stereotype" and "prejudice" are often confused with many other different meanings. Stereotypes are standardized and simplified conceptions of groups, based on some prior assumptions.

A stereotype can be deemed 'positive', or 'negative'.

Product Share: Novelty Design

http://www.dolceta.eu/united-kingdom/Mod3/spip.php?article201

Novelty lighters that have entertaining features.




http://www.britishnoveltyteapot.com/

Novelty and traditional teapots from the UK.
Make your high-tea time more attractive.




http://www.outblush.com/women/life/gadgets/novelty-7-shaped-4-port-usb/

Novelty 7 Shaped 4 Port USB
It is good for attract female consumers to buy it.




http://www.alibaba.com/product/glasdoninternational-11988077-11184214/Novelty_Bins.html

Novelty bins.
It is more attractive to the children and help to encourage the correct disposal of litter.




http://www.owentrailers.com/ticket_box_novelty.shtml

Novelty ticket boxes

Lesson 2: Defining Novelty, Innovation and Invention

Novelty: from Latin word it means "new".

Novelty is the quality of being new. A new style of art coming into being, it essentially exists in the subjective perceptions of individuals.
Novelty is a rare word that used in creative world. It define as a "Quality of Being New".
Novelty is an important explanatory principle in its own right, at least if what is meant by "explanatory principle" is a principle essential to metaphysical explanation or understanding".


Innovation: a new way of doing something or "new stuff that is made useful".

Innovation may refer to incremental and emergent or radical and revolutionary changes in thinking, products, processes, or organizations.

The goal of innovation is positive change, to make someone or something better.



Invention: a new composition, device, or process.

An invention may be derived from a pre-existing model or idea, or it could be independently conceived in which case it may be a radical breakthrough.

Invention has a long and important history in the arts. Inventive thinking has always played a vital role in the creative process. While some inventions in the arts are patentable, others are not because they cannot fulfill the strict requirements governments have established for granting them.



Define:
Novelty
The concept that the claims must be totally new.

Innovation
The introduction of new ideas or methods.

Invention
The creation of a new configuration, composition of matter, device, or process.






My opinion:

1.Novelty is the quality of being new, Subjective novelty is the apperception of something as being new by an individual or a group of persons, but Objective novelty is something new for all humanity in its development through ages.
It's something "novel", which looks more striking, unusual, something creative. the term can have pejorative sense.

2.Innovation is also like bringing something new, like new ideas or make changes. It's the process of making IMPROVEMENTS, the realization of a creative idea in a social context, and it must be replicable at an economical cost and satisfy a specific need.

3. Invention.
The innovator have to create a totally new markets for the new product. But anyways, there still a less risky strategy for innovation & invention. Thats the imitator improve the new product that created by the revolutionary-innovator, to satisfy the demand with more efficient approach.

Article Share: Creative Thinking

Creative Thinking—Make It a Habit!
by Jack Oliver, Ph.D.

Dr. Oliver, a geophysicist, is the Irving Porter Church Professor of Engineering at Cornell University. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and former president of the Geological Society of America and the Seismological Society of America. Dr. Oliver is author of The Incomplete Guide to the Art of Discovery, (Columbia University Press, New York 1991).

There is something mysterious about creativity. We can describe it, admire it, strive for it and experience it, but we can never understand just how or why a certain innovative idea springs up at a particular time in the mind of a particular individual. Indeed, most people never expect to understand or master that process. Let's hope we do not, for our world would be far more dreary if we ever fully harnessed the creative process and learned to produce results only on schedule or on demand.

On the other hand, we can imagine a brighter future if we were able to stimulate the creative process and produce more innovations. Can we, indeed, take action to stimulate creativity?

Some say "no," that due to their mysterious origins, creative acts can only arise without warning to those blessed by fate. According to this line of thinking, it's inappropriate or even futile to encourage creativity.

I don't subscribe to such a dismal view; I think investigations in the history of innovation show that we can, indeed, enhance our creativity. These studies show that creativity is repeatedly associated with certain types of behavior and reasoning. I do not mean to imply that a simple formula can be derived, or that one technique will work for everybody, or that success is guaranteed. But based on the historical record, certain steps seem likely to increase your creativity.

Restless?

Begin by conditioning yourself to be restless and uneasy about the status quo. Don't overlook the familiar just because you've seen it so often. Rather make yourself even more aware of it, then change the pattern slightly. If you invariably drive to the supermarket along a particular route, try a new one. If your spouse always buys the groceries while you return books to the library, switch jobs. If you eat a grapefruit like everyone else — one half at a sitting — eat both halves and compare the taste. (This exercise may astonish you!). If you always make a measurement or an evaluation in a fixed manner, change your routine. Sooner or later — I'd bet quicker than you expect — breaking your routine will help you invent an improved process or idea.

Force your mind to see things differently — in a new light, from a new angle, from another scale of time or distance, or from the perspective of someone with a different background. Explore beyond the bounds of your expertise — you may have the exact perspective needed by a colleague in another field.

If you have the germ of a good idea, preserve it by jotting it down immediately. Then, when you have time, think the idea through until you discard it as worthless or elevate it to the "significant" category. Great writers often scribble inspired thoughts when they arise, then subject them to the time-honored writer's formula: "l) revise 2) revise and 3) revise again." Consider your idea a rough draft that needs to be polished by a few cycles through the idea-processor.

Getting Useful Ideas

Bare bones ideas are plentiful, but the trick is to identify the good ones. Ideas derive their importance and durability in relation to data, problems and other ideas. In other words, ideas must be tested against reality. Good ideas will have two effects. They will be useful in their original context and they will create surprising, intriguing connections among things that once seemed to exist in separate contexts.

Divide your thinking into two distinct styles. One style should promote carefree, blissful dreaming. Would these compounds rapidly combine if "A" were true? What wonderful process could we invent occur if "B" were correct? Questions like these help you outline the fragile essence of an idea.

Then, once the idea is fleshed out, energize your analytical thinking. Test your idea against the data in the most dispassionate, objective manner. Most dreams deserve to fail, and it's best that you scuttle them, rather than allowing someone else the chance.

Do not be constrained by the critical side while you dream, but be sure to use those "reality-checks" once the idea has taken shape. In other words, learn to bounce back and forth from dreamer to critic.

Adapt an idea from elsewhere if necessary. (Naturally, be sure to give the originator credit in an ethical manner.) If you admire a new product in another field, immediately try to apply the underlying idea as a springboard for improving something else.

Creative-thinking Time

Schedule regular times for creative thinking. I walk to and from work daily, about 35 minutes each way. After many years of following the same route (sometimes I do vary it!), the journey is routine, but I've dedicated the walk as a scheduled time for free, creative thinking, for dreaming, for envisioning what might happen, for devising imaginative solutions. I jot down my ideas immediately after reaching my destination.

I also use sporadic, spontaneous times for creative thinking. At meetings of scientific societies, for example, I'm often so stimulated by news and unconventional events that I have difficulty sleeping. Those sleepless nights usually produce lots of ideas, some of them quite usable.

I think the fundamentals for improving creativity are pretty clear from the literature on history's successful innovators. If this is true, then why not follow their lead — and improve upon their techniques?

In its essence, my advice is, "to be creative, think creatively". Don't muddle around hoping for a great idea to strike like a bolt of lightning. Train yourself to think in ways that have worked for others. Everyone knows a habit can be acquired through repetition. Why not make thinking creatively a habit?






http://www.winstonbrill.com/bril001/html/article_index/articles/1-50/article10_body.html

From the article above:

1) Try another way on what you are doing daily.
2) Think differently from different angle.
3) When come out idea, jot it down quickly.
4) Ideas must be tested against reality.
5) Bounce back and forth from dreamer to critic.

"to be creative, think creatively"

make thinking creatively a habit

Lesson 1: Defining Creative

Creative: A different thinking mind.
Creativity: Creative mind come out with new ideas or concepts.
(The image above show that the designer using different way to create the alphabets of the word 'CREATIVE')

Creative is having a power to create.
Creativity is having a creative imagination and doing work or thing in different or new way.

From week 2 class lesson,
1. It is not only talented people are creative. Even the cleaning worker also can be creative.

2. Being creative is hard. Once we learn how to easily channel creativity, it is actually easy.

3. Problems is the key of learning. Problems force us to find creative solutions.

4. Everybody is creative. The more creativity we use it in our daily life the easier it will flow.

5. Geniuses are creative. But there are also many years of hard work.

6. The most great idea is by using the old concept but present it in a new way.

7. Brainstorming can be fun. Brainstorming helps us to get the best idea.

8. Not only artists need to be creative. Creativity belongs to everyone.

9. The more we use our creativity, the more easy for creative ideas come to us.

10. Everybody is different. But all brainstorming techniques spark your creativity.

Being creativity, you need to be able to view things in different ways. The best method is brainstorming.

So What is Creativity?
-Creativity is the ability to imagine or invent something new.
-Creativity is an attitude: the ability to accept change and newness, a willingness to play with ideas and possibilities, a flexibility of outlook.
-Creative people work hard and continually to improve ideas and solutions, by making gradual alterations and refinements to their works.

This week class, lecturer bought a metal rode and asked us to imagine what is it.
It can be a ruler for measurement, can be one of the leg of chair, can be a massage rode and many more.
It seems like everybody can get more imagination on a metal rode. This is how creative means. People thinking out different ideas to tell them what is that and the outcomes are different and interesting.
For me, everyone in this world has imagination. That means everyone is creative. Human are creative on build up all the technology, the buildings, exploring the science and come out the exploring materials.
If they are not creative, there would not be any science materials, buildings or even technology in our life today. We maybe still live on the tree or in the cave.
My opinion is, the main idea of being creativity is thinking and hardwork. If you keep on thinking but not doing something, that is imagination only. But if you create it out, it will become a creativity design or artwork. That is how brainstorming is useful for us to come out with ideas.