Intercultural Design :Final Look
Intercultural Designs
Date : Feb/21/2023
Name : Mabuchi Arata
Lecture : Video and Sound Production
Lecturer's name : Martin Chong Yuh Lin, Noranis Ismail
ID : 0351579
1, Introduction
This is going to be last weeks for my project, I've made various tyoes of presentations so far which is about promoting my project to the audiences. The final thing I'm going to make is "Final look" of my project based on data collection and proposal presentation I've done so far. The project itself is going to be PDF form to express Malaysian cultural celebrations.
2, Process
1, Planning
This is going to be my last process for this project, I've been working on about planning and developing ideas and promoting it as form of either document or presentations so far. In this section I am going to present my final form of my project which is "creating Malaysian calendar to explain celebration day". Based on my Data collection and Proposal presentation I've made, I'm going to make my own calendar in PDF form.
As you can see, I've made the ideas for my project already, therefore the things I need to do in first step is deciding the style for my final project, this is because due to the time issue, I can't make every style I plan so far, I decided to expand one idea to develop various style from one idea to impress audience (if possible...). The idea I'm going to use is "Calendar with simple image", which is about "symbolise each Malaysian celebration". To explain more about this, I am going to symbolize the most important items for each Malaysian celebrations, for example I can symbolize red lantern, fireworks, or ang pao to represent January (or the month which has Chinese New Year). I may be also interesting idea to insert Lunar calendar in my calendar in some way.
The main idea itself is already provided in the previos PDF document I've made so far as shown below.
2, Production
First of all, Rather than start building whole style of calendar, let me start from designing the first month January, This is because rather than making whole design of calendar in on e style, I want to to provide multiple style of page of calendar and then post them to Noranis Ismail, then I am going to complete whole desin one Calendar.
Once deciding the process to make my calendar, let's start from making page of calendar based on ideas I made in Data collection.
The point I mainly forcused in this creation is avoiding state holiday, Social event ^ Birthday holiday, this is because state holiday can't explain Malaysian public holiday held in every state in Malaysia and Social event can't be Malaysian public holiday which most of Malaysian celebrate, finally Birthday holiday isn't holiday that I can't be represent well in my adobe illustrator work.
The calendar design itself was about "making background for every calendar structure to represent Malaysian celebration", therefore I decided and focused to avoid making image that has dynamic change of colour and use lighter colour to maintain visibility in my calendar, however, in August calendar, I turned the text colour from black to white to make dark blue background for my calendar.
I tried to represent Malaysain famous cultural celebration for foreignerrs as much as possible, however, I found there are some month that doesn't have any famous public celebrations at all, I decided to made a normal calendar for that month, however, expect March, I designed the calendar that can represent Malaysia well, for example, in June, I designed durian as backgroun to show that June is the month that Malaysian famous fruits such as durian or mangostin are sold. (I couldn't find any good design that can represent Malaysia in March.)
Last thing to notice, I also focused the "balance" in the my calendar design, in calendar I need to design 12 different month to represent Malaysia, however, I can't make it dull for viewers and I need to make the viewers for my calendar enjoyfull for every month, therefore I found that I can't make similar colour for every page of calendar as background, therefore I aimed to maintain changing the background's colour both warmer colour and colder colour. I tried to make the number of warmer colour and colder colour same in my calendar.
3, Final form
All my pocess I've done is ecoded in the PDF slide I've shown belolw.
4, Final conclusion
Unlike other members in this project, I worked individually for some reasons, however the process itself was still going as other groups and I improved my ideas from other group's work, I think that one is one of my points that I went well, I also researched about Malaysian culture and unique calendar design and that one is also one of the point that can be good point for this project, however, The quality itself of my work isn't enough for this project and the there fore some point in my work that can be improved much better, I think the reason for this is because the time I take for each production was less than how I expected. I think I should have managed time to improve my work, I also think that there are some part that I missed to check so I take bit longer time than I expected, that one is lalso one of the negtative point for me, however, I feel my effort to represent the famous Malaysian celebration, but there could be much more possivility to improve the quality of calendar much better, for example, in May calendar, I tried to represent the Malaysian harvest festival called "Pesta Kaamatan", but I just made a vector image of basket, that is not enough to represent Kaamatan well at all, therefore in the next project, I need to aim to find the better way to express information more efficient way and simpler way.
In the end, I think the work of adobe illustrator was going better than my past works, however the way to express Malaysian culture was not so good for me, I want to use different way to represent Malaysian culture much better in my future work and I need to discover other way for that individually.
5, References
・Calendar for Year 2023 (Malaysia)
・MALAYSIA CALENDAR
・kimkim, Malaysia in July : Travel Tips, Weather & More
・Month in Malay and English
・Meaning in Hindi, Month Name In Hindi-English
・NETWORK TOOLS, Net Onboard, Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri and Eid Mubarak!, June 4, 2019
・PAGE ONE Publishing 2015, THE ART OF CALENDAR DESIGN (134-135, 164-165, 175, 182-183, 190-191)
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