Sunday, February 6, 2011

Vienna Secession

How i gonna relate Vienna Secession with my background "photography"?
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Vienna Secession was created on 3 April 1897 in Austrian. It is caused by a group of Austrian artist such as Joseph Olbrich, Koloman Moser, Josef Haffman, Otto Wagner, Max Kurzwei and Gustav Klimt who are protest against the traditional art on theirs forebears. They totally reject the past and start move on modern method who nothing to historical influence. They aspired to bring more abstract, and purer form to the designer of building, furniture, sculpture and painting. The style of secession was symbolism, naturalists, modernists, and stylists.

For example : Gustav Klimt
Chor Der Paradiesengel
Against the traditional, characterized by a rejection of earlier naturalistic styles, emphasize on
symbols or symbolic elements to convey psychological ideas, using the female figure , stylist floral syle on the bottom, stylist on the character including Egyptian, Minoan, Classical Greek, and Byzantine inspirations and used the gold paint. Ornamentation being adapt for these painting.


From my perspective view, the Secessionist movement can be adapt in my background as photographer. Anyone can take pictures and has chance to create images in his or her own unique way. Key to creating greats pictures is not depends on the equipment but how we finding the way to seeing the things and adapt some creative elements on it. For example, creating a photograph involves consideration of element such as lighting, focus, colour, contrast, quality and good composition. To make photograph more interesting, the concept of 'ornamentation' plays an important to rules while taking or editing the photograph. All these creative thing happens to make photograph look interesting.

For example, these photograph has been edit and manipulated to makes an image photographic.


Friday, February 4, 2011

How does the concept of 'Joy of Work' relate to modern thinking?

'Joy of Work' can be interpret in many interpretation...

In my opinion, concept 'Joy of Work' its all about how people expressing and done their work in design context. Are they happy while doing the design? Are they gives the soul and spirit while doing it? They feel freedom while designing? Are they really passion while working?

All the question can be answered by depend in ourselves how to create it to be joy.

By looking into the Art Nouveau people were start to move the style of art. People were start design as aesthetic. More exploration and aesthetic creations can be found in designing product, layout magazine, typographic and architecture. People start to see it in modern design and rejected the history.

The design in Art Nouveau influences from the organic characteristic especially emphasized on floral and others plant. Inspired the motifs as well as highly stylized or stretch line, flowing curvilinear and writhing forms, simplicity line and very minimal, focus on spaces, strong composition and symmetrical.

For example : Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Two Charles Rennie Mackintosh Plaques
Emphasized on vertical line, simplicity, symmetrical, writhing flora form and very minimal.


For example : Hector Guimard
Hotel Paul Mezzara
Emphasized on space and design for the hold environment.


For them, past is past. The historical is out. Now its time to 'Joy of Work' by come up the new modern design....

Thursday, February 3, 2011

i think therefore i am ?

Hmmm... These is my 1st design topic given by our lecturer Pn.Suzy. Hehehe... :D i little bit lazy to done this task. I'm really sorry to my lecturer and friends because take time to do it.

Ok just back on the track....hahaha
Cogito Ergo Sum? I Think Therefore I Am? Rene Descartes?
What is these? Why it's significant to 'Design'? Why it's related to each other?
So i start to find out about it...


Rene Descartes was a Latin philosopher and famous with philosophy statement "Cogito Ergo Sum" or "I Think Therefore I Am". Because of it, Descartes changes the perception and bring the big impact to the mind and the way their thinking during Baroque century. He start to believe that God are not perfect and not exist. God resembling the human mind both the human mind and god think, but have no physical being.

Disturbance happens in Roman catholic church. The people were start to believe in knowledge by used the 'science' as their new God. They start to understand the direction and belief in their ability of themselves by give logical idea and think. An idea or think of a perfect being is not provable. The impact of it, people were used the logical idea and think by inventing geometry and attempting to the devise the simple law that geometrical in all physical shape.

All these started by i think therefore i am....

Introduction...

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I am new to this site. Just to inform this blog are created to my design history class. All the topic intended to help me about learning and writing 'Design History'. For me, the aim of this "project blog" to help me develop, understand and sharing knowledge about 'Design History'.I hope, for those who read my design topic can share ideas, opinions and comments about it.

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