.: The Exhibition

Hello, this is our last shot for Visual Communication's final project, The Exhibition. I would like to thank to my group members, Fizi, Faizal and Azley for their understanding and supportive. Its hard to find team members like them. Yes, their hardworking and tolerance especially me is the only one female in this group. My team members always did the progression at their hostel then I will catch up all the informations from them. Important is thank you to our lecturer for this project, Dr. Zainurul Rahman for letting us to experienced this development of design and its process.

All the best for Retrospective in this project and also in the future ahead. The most important is we are the one who need to be happy and I'm happy to have them as team members. xoxo

.: Logo

This is our group's logo. It represents as our subjects in this happiness project; Wishing Tree and colorful traditional game, Teng Teng. Our group's name is Retrospektif means 'retro' flash backs to our childhood memories and then 'spektif' stands for perspective; our main perspective in this project is to find happiness whether for Georgetown city or in our inner self.

rock on!

.: Test

Our group already tested the site (empty space). Faizal, Fizi and Azley went there on the site while I can not joined them because I had my drawing class. They tied up some colorful piece of clothes onto tree and wrapped down the teng teng game drawing on the center floor of empty site.

According to them, there were some foreigners have shown up to make their wishes to wishing tree. And for this first our testing, it gave us more good views to our happiness project. The group members gave to me some photos when they were went to the site.

Here, I posted some of them.

.:Wishing Tree Mock Up

This post about our mock up of wishing tree. Firstly, our group is myself, Faizal, Fizi & Azley. Four of us split up into two small groups. It means Fizi and I were making wishing tree part while Faizal and Azley were making teng teng part.

Here, I posted some photos me and Fizi did a mock up of wishing tree. We were used wrapped wire, artificial flowers, stick & sticky wrapping.

Then, we've showed the mock up to Dr. Nurul but unfortunately she did not satisfy with the mock up's way. She wanted us to make it more simple and we've to accepted it.

.:Sticky Idea

In visual class, Dr. Nurul taught us how to make ideas more useful with alternative way. It is STICKY NOTES. Actually this method is common to people but it depends on how we can make it more fun and really worked

Then, the students (each group of happiness project) have been asked to wrote all their ideas to expressed it on sticky notes so all the members noted all progress that need to be work out.

.:The Solutions

I'd decided to joined with other four members to make a solutions. We're choose to make empty spaces as our major problems. I take my part to sketch some knitted dolls and wishing tree.

The knitted dolls are used for decorations such as hanging upon the tree that located on the location problems. Next, I also sketched wishing tree sketches. I took suggestion from Dr. Zainurul to make the wishing 'card' more flexible such as change it from paper card to a pieces of cloths.

Meanwhile, my other members will make some changes the empty spaces with our traditional games such as teng teng and gelang getah.

Here, some photos, sketches and grouping ideas:

the empty spaces

faizal, group members stand beside the wishing tree

the place for gelang getah game

rough sketch empty space

azli, group members

fizi, group members

the sculpture sketches

rough sketch for teng teng game

.:The Problems

I had found some problems while I was explored in Georgetown routes. What I saw were the wall of buildings getting dull, a lot of abandon buildings and some empty spaces beside the main road. I posted some photos of my observations.

.:Trip to Georgetown

Class of VRK223 (Visual Communication) from USM's students arts decided a trip to Georgetown, Penang for some explorations in finding happiness in the city. The trip went on 12th March, 2014, Wednesday. The weather was sunny but the group must accomplished the exploration under guide of Dr. Zainurul Rahman. There were two buses to go to the city. Then, Dr. Zainurul had splitted us into each groups.

We're been given a card as our checkpoint. Each group must captured photos that related with the problems of non-happiness as much as we can. Here, I posted some photos that I got from the trip then I will posted another photos for problem section & solution section.

THE TRIP

.:Happiness

What is happiness? Happiness is a positive emotions state that ranging from intense joy. Human can achieves it by many ways but most of humans will choose childhood memories as their happiness value of life.

For now, I have to complete a task for making one of Malaysia's cities as a happy city and it is Georgetown, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia. Georgetown near with University Science of Malaysia (USM) and this city has its own sentimental values such as historical, architectures, art and cultures. I've decided to make a simple mind map sketches of Happiness City of Georgetown.