aesthetic design

Zahra Damayanti. Design Student at RMIT University, Melbourne Australia. Interested in colour, surface pattern, materials and ethnic art design

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Lion King The Musical Costumes

It begins from my interest to watch my first musical show that I ever watched which is Lion King the musical show in Singapore about four years ago. This show is the most amazing disney musical show for me. Even in the opening act, I got goosebumps and almost cried which is until know I don't even know why I always cry when watching the trailer of this show on youtube. The performance, theatre design, lighting design and as well as the costume design seems like already blended with the story.

  The costume has made the characters alive and transform the whole cast into every kind of plants and animals that you might find in Africa and savannah. It is fundamental idea which is use natural materials and fabric to represent the earth, planet and the savannah itself. However, it also the use of pattern of fabric. The elements of tribal design in Africa is wonderful cohesive quality to all the costumes.

  Julie Taymor (director, costume designer, mask/puppet co-designer) take her inspiration from everywhere for example Mufasa’s costume, the collar piece is really Balinese and the bottom is very Indonesian. The grassland costume is to create the feel of savannah by making grass corsets made of actual leaves. It is really great to create costume that can transcend just a costume to become scenery and architectural elements on stage. The costume is made of fabric. Everything is dyed, screen printed, painted, digitally printed.

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Linda Jackson Collections

 Linda Jackson is an Australian fashion designer,fashion retailer and an artist.Her design was influenced in the late 1960s by Peter Tully and Clarence Chai.Later,she was influenced by her experience of the Australian outback and the work of native Australian artist,and also by the traditional beading of Kenya.

For Linda had managed to brilliantly capture the colour, line and form of the landscape of the Australian deserts, of forests, of snow covered scribbly gums, of Sturt's Desert Pea and of the flamboyant waratah and age-old banksia, which are so iconically Australian.However,her design still representing the contemporary and futuristic pattern. 

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Batik is a Javanese word to describe a certain way of obtaining a pattern upon a piece of fabric by a wax resist technique.‘Tik’ is given as word meaning to ‘dot’ or ‘drop’ and is particularly applicable to a process involving the use of hot wax  dropped in spots.

Batik is cultural symbol of Indonesia. The patterns contain deep meaning in every batik creation and represents the uniqueness of each batik producing region. 

The pictures shown:

1. Batik Mega Mendungfrom Cirebon, West Java Indonesia

2. Batik Parang Rusak from Yogyakarta, DIY Yogyakarta Indonesia

3. Batik Suroboyoan from Surabaya, East Java Indonesia

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Batik s a technique of manual wax resist dyeing applied to whole cloth, or cloth made using this technique. Batik is made either by drawing dots and lines of the resist with a spouted tool called a canting or by printing the resist with a copper stamp called a cap. 

Indonesian batik made in the island of Java has a long history of acculturation, with diverse patterns influenced by a variety of cultures, and is the most developed in terms of pattern, technique, and the quality of workmanship.On October 2009, UNESCO designated Indonesian batik as a Masterpiece of Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.

But how we can combine and develop batik in this era of contemporary modern art and design? Nancy Margried has successfully combined batik pattern with science and technology.

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Atmospheric Sky Canopy Design - Proposed Interior Perspective

2nd year Communication Assignment - Draw & More (2014).

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Atmospheric Sky Canopy Design - Section Drawing

2nd year Communication Assignment - Draw & More (2014).

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Isometric Drawing of Proposed Design 'Atmospheric Sky Canopy' - Located at String Bean Alley, Queen Victoria Market

2nd year Communication Assignment - Draw & More (2014).

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Watercolour Studies 2 Colour and Atmosphere - Queen Victoria Market Hall

2nd year Communication Assignment - Draw & More (2014)

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Watercolour Studies - Colour and Atmosphere

2nd year Communication Assignment - Draw & More (2014).

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Facade Elevation Drawing of Queen Victoria Market, Melbourne Australia

2nd year Communication Assignment - Draw & More (2014).

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1:1 Mechanism

2nd year Studio Project Technology - Art Space Project (2014).

This mechanism is a 1:1 scale detail of mechanism of interaction that will be the key design element for my Art Space Studio Project at NGV Kids Studio, Federation Square. The concept is about sound and introduce kids how the artist and designer create a sound using simple materials.

Rearrangeable wooden pegs sit in the rotating cylinder, and pluck at wooden blocks of various "notes". Take it out for a spin to create customizable sounds! Hear a "tick..tick..tick.." sound like a rainwater drops to the ground.

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3D Mechanism

2nd year Studio Project Technology - Art Space (2014).

For this project, we work with 4-sided cube and develop a range of mechanism for interaction. We start to think about how the cube might unfold to create a new spaces and modes of interaction.

After that, I decide to develop further about idea of functional object from previous 2D mechanism. Inhabitable walls becomes the concept for this design. By using the same approaches of simple pivots to activate plane. It comes out as a mechanism of interaction for kids of wonder how it works. How to make the impossible becomes possible.

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2D Mechanism

2nd year Studio Project Technology - Art Space (2014).

Through this project, we are testing different approaches to inventing a mechanism for interaction using the ply tile and dowel design. The only parameters are that the tile is activated and invites haptic interaction from the user.

In this 2D mechanism, I am interested about idea functional object which can create a space. Using simple approaches of simple pivots to activate plane and idea of balance, this mechanism start to build a portable functional object.

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Final Model - Site Model and ParaSITE Proposed Design

TThe The The final model design of paraSITE project is based on Frank Lloyd Wright principles while designing a building. Some of his principles that he used is low horizontal-pitched roof, use glass for this design to get more engage within the environment and this material is also one of his main materials.

Moreover, The decision of making it two-floor because the first floor is give more private as his living space and the ground floor is the public space such as a small living room and drafting room for his working space. He likes to engage with his client by spending time and having some a chit-chat.  There is a wall to separate the living room and the drafting room to give more private while he is working or drawing the design.

The reason I make that kind of shape for my stair is because I want to show the idea of the fallingwater.

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Site Analysis - Laneway Accessibility

The peop Various ways of accessibility for people and vehicles access from Lonsdale Street and China Town to this laneway.

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Site Analysis - Area of proposed design

I choose the area in front of KTV and sichuan restaurant. It is because this area is the most wet area and gives a private space as it becomes one of the principles of Frank Lloyd Wright while designing a building.

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Proposed Design Inspiration - Frank Lloyd Wright Design

Fallingwater Residence is the main inspiration of my design. I also include the drafting room of Frank Lloyd Wright as his working space. Drafting room is one of the important parts for Frank Lloyd Wright working space. It is mainly because his obsessed in hand-drawing. The idea of stairs give me the idea like a real falling water.