Module Reflection (Week 12)

Hello everyone, time flies so fast that finally I come to this last post on my blog for Creative Thinking module. At the beginning, I felt like this module won’t give any lessons on myself, but what actually happens is the opposite. I learned how to be more keen to environment around us, think more critically, break the rules, using mindmap to summarize something, or even relating and connecting something to another.

                The journey on week 1 was quite essential to be creative, as we need to take attention to everything around us. By getting inspiration from environment around us, we can put those inspirations in our mind so that we will become more creative. Thinking critically is also important, as it taught me to think deeper on the way to do something, as what I’ve done in the week 2 with my group. I also find out that creative people oftenly break the rules, as I was doing research on artists who broke the rules.

                Using mindmaps also can be applied in order to summarize something so it will be more easier to learn or read. Marshmallow challenge in week 6 also teaches us how to have a good teamwork when doing something. In analogical thinking about promoting a new coca cola product, I learned to be more creative to promote something. Forced connection also taught me that everything can be related, if we relate them in the proper way.

After all, thank you very much for my lecturer who has given us the lessons about creative thinking. I will apply what I’ve got in this module to things that I will face in the future.

Forced Connection (Week 11)

Hi there everyone! This time we are going to discuss about 3 topics which is forcing us to connect or combine things to another. The first two topics were done in groups and the third was done individually.

The first topic is about new food combines, which makes a new food by combining the other as the ingredients. In this topic, we made some interesting food with mixed ingredients. Let’s have a look on the food that we made.

 This is a new food which is a combination from a bun, steak, and nasi lemak. As you can see the bun, it is grilled and the texture becomes like a steak. There is nasi lemak waiting inside the bun, which makes the bun totally delicious.

The other food is also a bun. However, it contains capuccino so when we bite the bun, we will taste how delicious it is.

Last food, it is a big burger which consists of rice, egg, tomato sauce, and steak. The rice becomes the top and bottom layer of the burger. The other ingredients are put inside.

The second topic is about making a flossing tool which can make flossing become more fun.

We made the tool with a violin grip concept. The string in the grip has a censor which triggers a music to play whenever it is rubbed with something. We can put the USB at the bottom of the grip to insert the music that we want to play. So we can floss our teeth with music sounds!

 The third topic is to depict an object with different adjectives/emotions. There are 6 objects that I’ll choose 1 later on and 12 adjectives/emotions that I must combine with the object. I have to draw the combination between the object and each of the 12 adjectives/emotions. Let’s take a look on the list.

Object : cup, candle, pencil, computer mouse, clock, plug

Adjective/emotion : passionate/dull, sad/happy, brave/cowardly, creative/unimaginative, greedy/generous, hardworking/lazy

The object that i chose was clock and these are the combination with the emotions:

This is a passionate clock because of its excitement by its ringing in order to show the time

This could be called as a creative clock by seeing from its swirling pattern and bright light from the middle, depicting ideas that coming out from the brain

This is a generous clock because this clock doesn't give any time limitations, such as numbers. It also forms like an "infinity" symbol

It's a hardowrking clock because the shape is strict and the numbers are like tasks that need to be passed

Overall, thank you for your attention and hope you enjoy this topic!

Analogical Thinking (Week 10)

Hello I’m back again everyone! How’s it going? This time I will have a discussion about coca cola new product which contains more oxygen inside it. We were grouped into teams and ordered to make posters to promote this new product. My team was Me, Winny, Kai Ting, and Farah. However, we are supposed to write 4 aspects of oxygen while we are working on the poster.

These are the 4 aspects :

1. Basic Characteristics : Airy, Jumpy, Free, Fast, Smooth, Light, Invisible/Transparent

2. Emotions : Free, Feel Important, Pure/Clean, Necessary, Excited, Like a Boss

3. How Someone Feels While Using Oxygen : Happy, Energetic, High, Feel Alive, Fresh, Fast                    Reaction, Awesome

4. How It Feels Like Being Oxygen : Bubbly, Fly, Light, Fragile, Afraid, Universal

We made 2 posters in this project. The first poster is mostly blue-colored. Because oxygen is made from water, and we think that water is identical with blue color so we decided to design the poster with blue background and blue can. We put the coca cola logo in the middle and we didn’t change it because if we did, people won’t believe that it’s the real coca cola. We also give an “O2” type behind the logo.

First Poster

The second poster is made with a red background, knowing that red colour is attractive to both young and old people. We also made it with a plenty number of bubbles popping out of the can because oxygen will be looked like bubbles if we put it inside of water. People will know that the coca cola drink is very oxygenated. There are also bubbles in the middle of the can, depicting the coca cola logo.

Second Poster

Ok, that's all of my discussion about this topic, and I'll see you next time!

Analogical Thinking (Week 9)

Welcome back everyone! This time I'm doing an illustration about myself. The picture above is what I've been drawing before and it represents my personality and the things that I like in my life. I will explain to you guys about this illustration.

Firstly, I draw the most part of my face as a shield. Why? It's because I have a perception that a strong person is a person who can endure everything, such pain, suffering, obstacles, pressure, and all bad situations. There are also some cracks in the surface of the shield because actually I've been rejected once by someone. However, those cracks are going to be healed as time goes by and it will always be an impregnable shield.

There are piano tuts in the bottom side, as you can see that I draw it as my mouth. I've been playing the piano since I was a kid and I like it. I also draw a shining sun in the middle of the shield that brings sparkling light with clouds around my face, as they represent my personality that I'm a cheerful person. I draw my eyes as the soccer ball and musical note on the top that represent my hobby to play futsal and listen to music.

My hair is divided into two parts, the left part is a cat's head, which I draw because my fondness of cats. The right side is an ocean with waves drifting along the sea animals, such dolphin and shark. Why? Because I like water and underwater creatures. Water also represents my personality, as I open myself to experiences and informations in my life and adapt to them. There is a metal hand under the shark as my ear, as it tells my excitement to rock musics. Lastly, the rainbow on the top represents my personality also, as an optimistic person.

So, that's all of my illustration about myself. Thanks for your attention!

Pareidolia (Week 8)

Hi everyone! Today I’m back with a discussion about “Pareidolia”, which is a psychological phenomenon of random stimulus being perceived as significant. For example, we saw a building window but we perceived it as a face, or even saw a door which looks like a face. This time, my lecturer asked me and my teammates to find out pareidolia things in our campus. We split into directions and find it out as many as we can. We felt like it would be difficult but later on we found it interesting and we realized that so many things around us can be looked like faces.  Let me show you the pareidolias that we’ve found.

The two big square windows on the top can be seen as eyes, and the five blue windows at the bottom can be seen as teeth as it looks like a face in general

I think this one is the best pareidolia as it forms a smiling face with a door handle as the nose

So many faces can be seen from wires, color paints, electricity power source, stickers on the wall, cardboards, woods, car, or even a toilet seat. I think pareidolia is an interesting thing that can sharpen our sense to see things around us with a greater sensitivity. That’s all about my topic this time, and I will see you guys soon!

4 Lessons in Creativity (Week 7)

How’s it going everyone, it’s me again with another new topic. This time I’m going to tell you my reflection about a video from www.ted.com with Julie Burstein as the speaker and it is about 4 lessons in creativity.

There are 4 people who can be said as successful persons as examples. The first one is Mira Nair, an India people who was firstly inspired to dedicate herself to theater from a folk theater in her country called Jatra. And later, she became an award-winning filmmaker. The lesson that I get from this person is we have to open ourselves to get experience. We have to embrace experience as we will become more creative by learning from it.

The second person is Richard Ford. This person inspired me so much that he could become a novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize even he is having dyslexia, a disorder which can lead to bad comprehension in language and reading. He said that some of powerful work comes out from the most difficult parts of life. I learned from this man that our weakness will not stop our destiny as we keep embracing challenges in our life.

Richard Serra, a great sculptor is the third person as the example. He was firstly a painter but then he left paintings and becomes a sculptor. I can learn that we have to push ourselves away from limitations.

Finally, the last person is a photographer named Joel Meyerowitz. He had been in a building rubble that was caught on fire. At that time, he felt that he had to take pictures, but suddenly a cop hit his shoulder and told him that taking pictures is prohibited. However, he kept taking pictures that it had to be recorded as history, in his mind. He said that passionate optimism is important, as it forced him to take many pictures about this place.

We live in the cycle of creation and destruction. We have to be ready to let go of something, taking challenges, or even undergo bad situations in life. That’s all of my reflection about this video.

Marshmallow Challenge (Week 6)

          What’s up everyone, this time we are talking about a challenge that I did last week. The challenge was quite fun, I think, because it needed a good teamwork and the materials used for it were interesting. The challenge was to make tower-like building with a little marshmallow standing at the top with raw spaghetties as the building structure. The winner would be the people who made tallest building. The class was divided into groups, which every group consisted of 4 people. My group were Winny, Beth, Nurul, and Me. There were also other materials to build the structure, that were masking tape, scissor, string, and small bag.

          In the early process, we didn’t make any sketches, knowing that there was a time limit to do the challenge. However, we planned the building structure very well. We decided to make a strong base by placing the bag at the bottom and stick the raw spaghetties on the top with the masking tape. It was really hard to stick the spaghetti onto the bag, because it was really fragile. It was also easy to fall down if it’s not balanced. It took quite a long time to build the base structure, while we saw other groups' were like in almost-done condition. However, we kept going and worked hard to do the base. We helped each other to stick the spaghetties. For example, when I held the spaghetties that need to be sticked, other people tore the masking tape and stick onto it. After we stick the masking tape, we tied it with the string for extra safety. After we made the base, we formed the spaghetties into a triangular pyramid. We knew that this shape would make the structure stable. And lastly, we put a piece of spaghetti and place the marshmallow on the top. Luckily, it was quite balanced and my group was the winner of the challenge. 

          Mostly the other groups didn’t think about the base structure and their building fell down easily. I think the solution to win this challenge is to make a strong base first, so it will not fall down later on and not to do the building hastily.