Reflection 2 - 10/12/18

What has gone well?

• Paper cut is really good! Love the collage! The minimal design!
• Monkey character is really successful! Your character development is really strong. If you enjoy this continue it!
• Line stickers are really fun! 

What can be improved on?

• Consider combining mono print texture with paper cut out?
• Add colour to the monkey characters! Play with texture and different mediums
• Keep playing with the Haruki Murakami work: is there a way you can combine digital and paper cut? 

Discuss ideas...

• Look into other live briefs such as YCN? What about the collaborative project? 

Other Comments

• At this point I think that I should finish off the penguin book design and move onto the next project. I think I tend to overwork the piece and think too much about the final image. In terms of the collaborative project, I might consider submitting the work to one of the live briefs as it meets with the theme and guidelines. 

• I think that I have quite a few briefs to work towards, which I quite enjoy doing. Though after a few discussions, I think that I need to have a self-initiated brief or a self-indulgent project. Something I will be interested and invested in. I have been considering to create LINE stickers. Though the context have yet to be decided. I might want to scratch this idea and stick to an Indonesian-based project? I might want to incorporate more of my culture into my projects, which is something I am passionate  about. 

Reflection 1 - 12/11/18

Is your Proposal Viable?

• Don't work on too many briefs, several quick and short ones. Perhaps a longer one?
• Perhaps bring in a personal project? Something not client-based. 

What next?

• Just start think of ideas and creating, sketches, designs etc.
• Research 

Recommendations for research tasks. 

• Start with what you are most comfortable with: the Student Design Award (Norwegian Wood by Murakami)
• Look into Heinz, what is it about etc. 

Other comments

• Campaign, design related work: think about the client or audience. Where and who is this being showed to? 

• The next steps are just to do more research into the projects, the themes as well as the target audience. I need to have a good understanding of the intended audience to find the most suitable tone of voice and visual appeal. I should also start by making roughs and sketches done for the smaller briefs and projects. Just to kick-start everything. 

• So far, I could say that I work better with a set brief, that can be restrictive at times. Though I would also try making self-initiated projects, which would rather be small and quick to do. This would allow me to simply create things for the sake of creating and lets me showcase my own town of voice and practice. I am also open to more collaborative projects as I have done a couple in the past and I enjoyed working with people from other disciplines. Working as a team may be difficult at times, in terms of communication and sometimes clashing in ideas, but through collaborative projects, great work could be made. 

Statement of Intent: Revised

Original Statement: Link

(New) List of Projects: 

*links to specific projects posts

Live Brief

- Student Design Award: Haruki Murakami book cover Link

Client Brief/Commission 

- Start Me Up: Branding Link

- Collaborative animated short Link

Self-Initiated

- Made in Indonesia Project Link

   - Publication/art book about youths in Indonesia (through a local lense)

   - Sticker set

   - Gifs

Changes made: 

Live Briefs: I dropped the D&AD brief and decided to stick to the Student Design Award brief. I decided to focus on that and I felt that I lost focus on the other competition briefs that I initially planned on doing. 

Self-initiated: I decided to use the time for the other live briefs for a longer project. I suppose this is a project that would showcase more of my personal work. Instead of the initial plan of creating smaller self-initiated projects, I decided to create a bigger and longer one where I could just invest my time in and create. 

Who am I?

Slide 3

• I felt the need to do everything, not establishing strong skills/practice.

• I did not have enough confidence, constantly doubting myself and my practice. I tend to constantly think if the work I am producing is enough.

• It took two years to explore my interests and practice. Two years to figure out what I enjoy making. I did not have a complete grasp on my own practice.

Slide 4

• Work efficiency: Digital media. Mainly due to working remotely during the internship. Though I found out that I quite enjoy working digitally. 

• Cogiving - Bye Bye Plastic Bag: I learnt quite a lot interning with this organization. I discovered ways of building a community and business that had purpose behind it. I learnt about art and sustainability, entrepreneur-skills etc.

Slide 5

• Simple shapes: communicating effectively through simple shapes. (But I also want the audience to have their own interpretation of things, based on their own background knowledge.)

• Though at this point, I don't think that I am fixed with a certain aesthetic of tone of voice. This tends to be how I usually (naturally) work. 

Slide 6

• I am really interested in the creative industry, particularly the visual content marketing side. As well as the creative economy, which includes technology and social aspects. Concentrating around products and services that bears creative content, cultural value and market objectives. 

Slide 9

• Aspirations and goals: would be nice to work for a company or agency. I actually enjoy working for the creative aspect of corporate work (eg. marketing, advertising). I think that my practice could lead to a more commercial path. 

• I'd like to think that I am a simple person. I want to illustrate things I am comfortable with. Receiving praise is good, but I have come to understand that being able to accept oneself is important. 

Self-Initiated: Digital Portfolio

Made gifs of selected illustrations (I will never get tired of gifs.)

Art book - 

Setting the illustrations in a publication format seems to work well and is 

visually more coherent. (a proposed layout)

I altered the initial brief (Link) slightly as I wanted to talk about the youth in a broader sense and the final outcome slightly changed from small trinkets to a full book. My only concern about this project is whether the illustrations alone will effectively communicate the content. I have thought about adding text in some of the pages, however I quite like how it turns out untouched and left alone, letting the pictures speak for itself. I wanted people to experience more of the feeling and tone as they go through the pages. 

 I personally don't want to simply create pretty pictures, but I want to tell a story, to educate people about things that are often overlooked and glossed over for tourists. I wanted to show my country through a local lense/perspective. I also wanted to express the mundanity of life, despite being from a completely different country and culture, we are all people, who live our lives like everybody else. 

Final Animation

Human [unravel me] from Diandra on Vimeo.

I have never felt so proud after completing this animation. Working on this project had been quite exciting in terms of doing something completely new, such as animating from scratch. I collaborated with two friends, utilizing each of our strengths (one of them did the choreo and the other worked on the background).

Despite our difference in tone of voice and areas of expertise, everything fits in, after several discussions, trial and errors. We tried to fit the song choice and the concept: telling a story about what it means to be a human -an unwinding, ever-changing individual.

What Next?

Sample sketches. Might turn the small 
illustrations into stickers.

Initial (colored) designs for stickers

Tried to apply my rooster character to a ceramic figurine

I've created several designs, though I think that my next step is trying to communicate the context of my work. I think I might need some text to accompany my illustrations. For instance, I designed these particular pages: 

Real headlines on our local newspapers

"Pabrik/Factory" - I wanted to address
issues about our education system.
It is like a prison for being told what to do
and not allowed to question the authority.

"Dilarang Orang LGBT Masuk Komplek" - "Anyone from the LGBT community are not allowed in this housing complex/neighborhood" 

This is a banner that I saw hung over the entrance into a neighborhood close to my house and I thought it was ridiculous. Seeing that some parts of my society are still conservative about these things.

Sometimes, growing up, I feel like a robot. Everyday, going to school, being talked at, learning for hours at school and after just to meet our parent's expectations and dreams. In some families, children were not able to speak their mind.