Thursday 29 November 2012

Identifying 3 Divisions of Work - 1st Batch of Design

I have been spending some times in this week to visualise the concepts, at least at the fundamental stage. So, unlike the previous posts that contain hundreds and thousands of words, this one is very image-based.

Division 1: Platform Design



The first matter I worked on was to decide the platform design. Few sketches were drawn and finally (at this point) I thought of using stairs to represent the weight, volume of social voices and the amount of social expectations are suitable. There are two reasons here:
  1. The ball that contains more expectations is positioned higher due to the higher standard of social achievements required.
  2. Stairs of different heights represent the increasing of the lowest (social voices) volume to the highest (social voices) volume.
  3. The volume bar is formed by the texts that describing the area of expectations from the society towards individual.
The highest step of the platform has an extended space to locate the cards/ leaflets/ broucher that explain on the Voice Ball concept. It is for the audience to take back and read. The mechanism of the platform needs to be planned carefully so that the projector and MP3 could be hidden without affecting the aesthetic.


Division 2: Video Narration


It is my intention to use typography as the main element in narrating the concept of Voice Ball. Besides applying my designer skills, typography can be a good element to deliver voices. I also thought it will be good if the big concept of Voice Ball could be delivered within a few lines in the video. Then, the narration is followed by the commercials. Following this strategy, the possible outcomes and the storyboard are as below:

1. Volume bar - represents social expectations

The volume bar is in motion with the texts arranged randomly. The reason to implement this opening visual is also to connect with the visual design on the platform. Perhaps I should work on the dullness of the colour. The list of texts, after refined, are as below:
  • Ambition/ 志願
  • Career/ 事業
  • Dream/ 夢想
  • Emotional Response/ 情緒反應
  • Ethnics/ 行為準則
  • Goal/ 目標
  • Living Attitude/ 生活態度
  • Morality/ 道德觀
  • Personal Principle/個人原則
  • Physical Appearance/ 外表
  • Sexuality/ 性向
  • Self Identity/ 個人特征
  • Social Behaviour/ 社會行為
  • Social Class/ 社會等級
  • Social Role/ 社會角色
  • Social Status/ 社會地位
  • Success/ 成就
  • Value/ 價值觀
  • Vision of Love/ 愛情觀
  • Vision of Marriage/ 婚姻觀

Video Opening - Colour/ Batch 1
Video Opening - B&W (A)/ Batch 1
Video Opening - B&W (B)/ Batch 1


2. Social Voices - topic of narration

I intended to make the typography sounded loud, but have I achieved that?

Video No.1 (A)/ Batch 1
Video No.2 (A)/ Batch 1
Video No.1 (B)/ Batch 1
Video No.2 (B)/ Batch 1


3. Social expectation - big concept

Have I made the social voices pressuring on the inner voice?

Video No.3/ Batch 1

Video No.4/ Batch 1


4. Commercials - represents social expectations

Video No.5/ Batch 1


Division 3: Space Installation

The installation of the artwork is shown in the sketches below. The floor projection idea mentioned earlier was abandoned after considering that it might cause difficulties in reading the video narration. Also, having the shadows of audience stepping on it might be distracting. Hence, at last, a wall projection is decided instead. In additional, each earphones will be connected to MP3s.


Artist Impression - Video No.5/ Batch 1



Wednesday 28 November 2012

It's Hands-on Time


Followed by the Critical Writing, the entire core concept of Voice Ball has been more or less confirmed. Gradually, the project is entering the stage to plan for it's execution. There are 4 main concerns that I'll need to think about:
  1. Design the platform to display Voice Ball.
  2. Sound produced by Voice Ball - Avoid having voice that might lead to recollection of sound produced by childhood toys. Also, to avoid the recollection of spiritual bell. Source for a medium that creates more tranquillity sound.
  3. Implement my graphic design skills into typography design. Consider to use bilingual (English + Chinese). Use video narration as the main platform.
  4. Placement of information design and promotional items in the installation.
Issue 1, 2 and 4 have been worked out and will be posted in another post for the convenience of reading as there will be quite a number of visuals to show. For issue 3, currently I don't have any idea in solving it. Experiment and measurement on the penetration of the voice from internal space to exterior environment need to be reconsidered. I think it is quite impossible to build a complicated mechanism. Hence I searched for children DIY music instruments and got some idea from Recycled Rattles. I'll try out with some simple materials within these few days. Now let's listen to the sound produced by some of the DIY instruments:


Rice shaker - Sounded like drawing divination sticks.


Bottle cap shaker - Recycled material.

Also, I accidentally found this beautiful music produced by sand.


Last word before I forget, I need to think of a better name for Voice Ball. Maybe Voice Ball is just too cliché and doesn't stimulate curiosity!



Monday 26 November 2012

Critical Writing: Designing The Voice of Society


Below is the first draft of my Critical Writing for Voice Ball Project. I've also taken this opportunity to organise all my thoughts and did a final conceptualisation on the project.

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Kenya Hara, being one of the most influential designers in Japanese contemporary design today, has positioned human senses as his focal point in design. Looking at a wider scope, he has successfully implemented his exploration of senses into the process of conveying his perception towards the society. In 2000, Hara produced “RE-DESIGN--Daily Products of the 21st Century” exhibition. It showcased several redesigned and redefined daily products that have refurnished their functionality and hence transforming their value in the society. Once, in his book Designing Design, he quoted:

“I believe that the beginning of creativity can often be found by gazing at society from behind, rather than following what society’s gaze points to.” (Hara, 2003)

"RE-DESIGN--Daily Products of the 21st Century" exhibition

"RE-DESIGN--Daily Products of the 21st Century" exhibition

Kenya Hara’s ideology and work has certainly addressed that human senses as the contact point that connect human with the society, needs to be highly considered as one of the most important agents that determines the success of a communication. In a second point of view, as a designer whom is thoughtful about the functionality of design, society is also the definite platform that one needs to study because it impacts the receiving process of human senses. Like the old saying goes, good design is not being judged merely from the aesthetic aspect, it is the thought behind that made it intelligent. When senses and the influence of society are identified as persuasive power in determining a communication point, now there is a valid reason for designer to think about their relationship for the future development of creative industry.

Having this understanding, the creation of Voice Ball, the interactive piece that is produced by the writer, is based on the intention to show the connection between senses, society and in additional, humanity value. Voice Ball delivers the sensation faculty through the weight, surface texture and sound of the installation. The humanistic value is explored via the commentary on individual’s expression of inner voice. The commentary on society is based on the relationship between the resistances of inner voice towards the suppression of the society’s expectations. The narration is delivered through the senses in contact. When Voice Ball is shaken in hand, the one with the most social expectations is the heaviest and has the softest (inner) voice and vice versa. The greater (is) the social expectations, the softer (is) the expression of one’s inner voice. 

The exploration of this relationship has recalled an important characteristics of a designer – logical thinking. Although creativity could be sky-high and a designer’s philosophy could be sophisticated, it is the relevance that made the idea realistic. Rational measurements are still an important tool for the design to achieve its objective of communication. Voice Ball is conceptualised according to the term “proportional relation”. SIL International, an international non-profit language organisation further explained it as "a proportional relation is a logical relation that establishes a range of conditional relations that together involves direct or inverse correlation." Also, "logical relation is an inter-propositional relation in which a proposition is related to another, in reasoning, as premise to a conclusion, or an antecedent to a consequent." Hence, logical conclusion based on reasoning is one of the aspects that a designer needs to develop. Without a reasonable mind, design could be aesthetically pleasing, however facing the crisis of not providing a profound solution.

In the RE-DESIGN Exhibition, Kenya Hara used a range of daily products as media to carry his idea of bridging social value and the sensual faculties. He presented the fact that “the resources of astonishing design are found in the context of the very ordinary and casual.” (Hara Design Institute) Not only being the touch point of audience with the design, medium carries another function to amplify the objective of design. In a deeper inspection, Voice Ball also uses a media to expand the idea of social expectations – advertisements. It uncovers the voices of society through different advertising techniques. The influence of advertisements has been expanding since the beginning of trade. As a designer, there is an important call that one has to be aware of the society around, in order to have a clearer stand of one’s own position as a visual communicator.

Advertisement being one of the forces that moves the wheel of a capitalist society has a hidden mechanism to shape and to mirror the society. Either being positioned as an active or passive catalyst of affecting the society, advertisements is indirectly persuading the audience to agree with a role-to-be through a series of “psychographic portrait” (Jeremiah, n.d.) including personal values, attitudes and emotions. In the end, when advertisements are answering the call of the society's desire, it becomes one of the causes that build up the social value, standard and expectations. Inner voice or the personal humanistic traits are then suppressed under the environment in order to be part of the community.

From the objective of investigating the inner voice, Voice Ball has expanded its potential in presenting the truth of the society from the perspective of creative field, and also delivering the sensual experience of design to the audience. The narration also brings out the characteristics and several considerations of being a designer. As society shapes our social behaviour and our behaviour reflects the society, the relationship between society and human is complicated yet it is worth to be explored through design attributes. There are many design graduates every year. The key is who can be a design thinker?

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This is an uncompleted writing as it only focuses on the conceptualisation of the project. The execution of the project will be developed further in the next writing.



Thursday 22 November 2012

Who To Be and Who I Am

I've spent some time to understand, or kind of clarifying, the relationship between advertising and inner voice. To be clear, Voice Ball is not a social commentary about advertisements' impact on human nature. However, my intention in doing this scope of study is to ensure that commercials are the accurate medium used to reflect or represent the social voices.

  • Psychologists think advertising is a source of learning or conditioning;
  • sociologists see it as establishing role models and as impacting social behavior;
  • anthropologists view it as ritual and symbols, giving meaning to artifacts and other objects;
  • educators are concerned with its influence on child development, and
  • communication scholars often equate it with propaganda and analyze its role within the mass media and its influence on the media. 
- From the article "The Social and Cultural Effects of Advertising" by Jeremiah O'sullivan R.

What makes our behaviour is our value. What makes our value is the culture that we immersed into. From culture, the system that forms the way of living give birth to some rule and regulations in the community that tells you the do's and don'ts. In another word, they are the voices generated from the social structure. Like it or not, in our life, we are directed to follow this pathway to define the rights and wrongs, the success and failure, what is a relationship, identity, achievement, and the list goes on. They are all different forms of expectations, from family, friends, colleagues, and with most impact, from the society.

The persuasive agent of advertising makes us agree with the product proposition. When the conversation starts, we tend to talk to ourselves - if I were to consume this product, this is who I can be, what I can achieve, who I will attract, where I will stay. As for the less aggressive commercials, they turn around to tell us who we should be. Aren't all these expectations? Before we can even identify what we need and who we are, the consumerism world has already tell us who to be. The shaping process begins quietly without our alert. The question is, how can we get our inner-self expressed?

Reading material: The Social and Cultural Effects of Advertising




Wednesday 21 November 2012

Oh, Keep Them Balanced

It's time to nail down all the ideas and confusion. Responding to my concern of having commercials that overwhelming the Voice Balls' message, perhaps some alternation could be made on the commercial projection. Below are 2 solutions that I worked out:

1. Convert all commercials into gray scale. They are not the main focus, hence giving them a same colour scheme would tone down the contrast.
2. In-cooperating one-word text to emphasize on the social expectations brought by the commercials, after each commercial ended.

Some commercials end earlier than the others,
creating a mixture of still text and moving images
to appear together.

Next, I identified the commercials that could be used. A total of 36 commercials were selected. I've created a playlist in Youtube and they are all listed in Commercials Presenting Social Expectations. The texts to describe the social expectations are:
  • Achievement
  • Appearance
  • Attitude
  • Behaviour
  • Career
  • Expression
  • Homogeneous
  • Identity
  • Marriage
  • Relationship
  • Result
  • Sexual Preference
  • Status
  • Success
I've also searched for some references of title sequence in order to design the appearance of the text. Later, I decided to keep the direction clean and simple. The entire video will be in gray tone with some noise.



As for the installation of Voice Ball, the sketch is as below:


So yes, it'll be a floor projection. However, I'm also concerning whether it is possible to do a floor projection set up. In additional, the distance between the projector and the floor needs to be quite far to ensure the area of projection is large. If the gallery does not have any stand extended form the ceiling to hold the projector, probably I'll need to change the plan to a wall projection instead.

Setup of a floor projection - How to locate the projector




I've taken Alex's consideration, to avoid using too many projectors, instead of placing the balls separately, must well putting them together. With the earphone, the volume of audio could be manipulated. Audience has to put up the earphone to listen the commercials' audio which are in different volumes paring with the weight and voice created by the balls. The audio could be very noisy as several commercials are overlapping at once. It is the intention to create a chaos environment showing the overwhelming social voices.

Once the earphone is put up, it can be difficult to hear the sound of the balls, so currently I'm also trying to find out a way to adjust the earphone so that it's in mono sound. With this, one side of the audience's ear is listening to the commercial audio, and the other side could register the sound produced by the balls. Picture below is the one-sided earphone I found online, but probably the school's operation department does not have this.





Tuesday 20 November 2012

Recalling The Power of Words

A Scottish artist, Robert Montgomery uses ten years to hijack billboards and bus stops to present his artwork that comments on culture, ranging from consumerism to beauty.




Linking it back to Voice Balls, I have been questioning, other than delivering the forces of advertisements (social pressures) in the form of videos, can it be in other forms of representations? Thanks to Robert's artwork that has recalled me not to forget about the power of text.

Of course, there is a valid reason for me to raise this up. It's due to the aesthetic concern of the video projection and also my intention trying to explore a more metaphoric approach in defining and delivering a clearer message of social pressure. I tend to think, if advertisement is being presented directly, will it overlap the core message of Voice Ball, instead?

Reading material: Street art meets poetry


 

Monday 19 November 2012

The Bulb - Kenya Hara


Sometimes, we just need to get a cup of good coffee in order to bribe our mind start working. Above is a letterpress print made by Jayne Christina Glick from the Herron School of Art + Design.  So, this week I encountered her work and perhaps this quote of Kenya Hara would make it a good start.

"Design is the energetic acknowledgment of our own living world through the making of things and through communication. Design is a provocation of our senses and a way of making us discern the world afresh" - Kenya Hara

Design of Design 設計中的設計/ Chinese Version

I'm not sure whether I develop this awareness latter by myself or I am actually influenced by Kenya Hara. His book Design of Design was the first design book I read when I decided to study in a design college. Although, until present, I have yet to understand all of Kenya Hara's philosophies, his direction of work has definitely put a very high focus on exploring humanity. That functionality of assisting human to improve our quality of life in a sustainable way, has made me agreed with the value of design.
 
Kenya Hara

The previous critique session has clarified my confusion on how to do the A&P project. Observing Kenya Hara's work, I understand the A&P carries the function to promote not only the artwork, but also the concept or philosophy embedded. The entire objective is to provide an all-rounded communication with the audience through various medias, so that Voice Balls' concept or concern is well presented and delivered. At a certain point of dissecting Voice Ball, I think it's philosophy is a concern that needs to be addressed to public, beyond being a concept that only draws people's attention or agreement.

So, forget about the commercial way of defining "marketable value". Good that I understand it now.



Thursday 15 November 2012

To Sell My Balls

Now, it's time to talk about how to give some marketable values to the Voice Balls. Identifying the touch point between the objective of creating Voice Balls, and the community involved (target audience) is another point that I need to develop. An extremely new task which I did not practice in the previous phase.

So looking at Voice Balls' nature of being interactive, I came out with 2 possible categories that could help Voice Balls to reach their "owners". Yes I need to know my balls well in order to sell them out! Basically, the 2 core characteristics of Voice Balls have contributed to the process in identifying the touch points:

1. Intended to educate the public to respect every individual's own voices as part of human nature - Educational/ Humanity awareness as touch point
2. Having contrast between loud and soft volume - Music as touch point

I then tried to source out who would be the community interested to understand the humanistic value and fact that society shapes people. Perhaps, it's new parents! Traditionally in Asian countries, the birth of a baby follows with the parents' expectations. At a certain point of life, it's not about what you want, but voices like what they want you to be appear to be very loud. In short, I thought Voice Balls have this potential to reveal the consequences of putting too much expectations on an individual, and in a cycle let the public (parents) to decide what they should do instead.



If, Voice Balls could be make as a maraca noise maker, kids play with it and parents could explain to them or even self-educate the Voice Ball philosophy from the volume of loudness and weight of the balls. Of course, with that, the wall of Voice Balls would be made from plastic instead of clay.

Option 2, if the mechanism of Voice Balls could be implemented into cell phones, does it work? Let's say, it's an application that facilitates music lovers. The mechanism works like this:


When you are listening to music on your phone, and come to a noisy environment,
you can adjust the volume by shaking the phone left/right (to increase the volume) or by shaking it top/bottom (to decrease the volume).

The point is, when the outside environment is loud and noisy, you struggle to listen to the sound that you want to hear, which is what channels through your headphone. So I think my job as a graphic designer is to design the screen layout so that the visual of Voice Balls appear to connect the philosophy with the actions. What is needed other than this will be the conventional prints such as posters and packaging design.

I'll identify that later after the direction of A&P is nailed down. Hopefully the ideas don't sound too stupid afterall.



Wednesday 14 November 2012

If...Ads Make The Value of Society

The basis to expand the work is to enhance it's interaction with the audience. As mentioned earlier, what I did not achieve completely in the experimental piece was the stimulation of senses. From the ball itself, these are the senses in contact that I identified:

1. Touching - The matt surface and the temperature brought by the clay coating.
2. Hearing - The collision of metal pieces inside the ball.
3. Sight - Colour contrast between red and white and the stencil fonts.

Now, provided that I have to design the spacial experience for the audience, perhaps the interaction of senses could be amplified from the installation of the space. How do I show a contrast of inner voice with the outer situation - A gigantic environment that is suppressing a tinny voice of ourselves?

Before finding the possible solution to design the space, I should emphasis on the element that could be considered to construct the oppressing environment. At this point, I think advertisement is the suitable object to represent the social expectations. Of course, the relation between advertisement, social pressure and inner voice is not as simple as 1 + 1 + 1 = 3.

Advertisement being one of the tool that moves the wheel of a capitalist society, has a hidden mechanism to shape and to mirror the society. Either being positioned as an active or passive catalyst of affecting the society, advertisements are indirectly telling us who we should be. For instance, we need to consume product A, in order to be person A. In that sense, person A will contain characteristics that are well-accepted and well-recognised by the society.

In the end, when advertisements are answering the call of the society's desire, it become one of the cause that builds up the social value, standard and expectations. Like it or not, at a certain point in life, we are asked to achieve these expectations in order to fit into the society. Hence, we loose our own voice and gradually blends with the expectations.

According to this decode of the relationship, I came out with some possible solutions in designing an atmosphere that the audience would feel the pressure of the advertisements (social expectations).


The TVCs are arranged as mosaic video. The audio is a mixture of all the TVC to suggest a noisy, oppressing and distracting environment that prohibit us from expressing our own voice.

Screen A (loud audio) matches with heavy ball (softest voice).
Screen B (semi loud audio) matches with light ball (soft voice).
Screen C (soft/no audio) matches with lightest ball (loud voice).


If the screen is enlarged, the contrast of size between inner voice and society pressure is clearer.


What if the screen is projected from the ceiling? So once you enter this space, you are part of the oppressing society.




Tuesday 13 November 2012

Clay Guru Wanted

This week it's still in the stage of planning. Other than trying to expand the idea, I think it's also very crucial to solve the cracking problem. After 2 months leaving the Voice Balls in the base room, the cracks have been worsen. The clay I've tried was first the Super Sculpey, then it cracked when I left it aside after being baked. In my second attempt, I tried with Sculpey III and finally it also cracks as how it looks like now (photos to be uploaded soon).



Although I did some mistakes and over-looked some measurements in the process, I strongly intend to consult a professional or experienced person in clay making products, before I start for the second phase in making the balls. Let's list out my assumptions of the wrong procedures (from the information I gathered online) that lead to the cracks:

1. Without constructing a wire skeleton
2. Using wrong type of clear spray
3. Unsuitable arcylic paint
4. Over-baked

However, these are just all my assumptions. To save cost and time on experimenting, I hope there'll be a good expert willing to share his/her knowledge with me. I've searched for 2 clay making art shops in the town that would probably entertain my inquiry, but I've a feeling in order for them to teach or give the consultancy, I may need to attend their classes. Anyhow, Novia is helping me to contact one of her friend whom is good in clay making. So if people-relation dosen't work, I might need to go to the shop and ask them directly. The 2 shops are:

Located in Ikano Power Centre: Yenji Clay Craft
Located in Puchong: Tana Clay Art Studio



Monday 12 November 2012

What Shapes Social Pressure?

What shapes the social pressure and expectations? In the first stage, I presented it by applying word stencils on the wall of Voice Balls. It gives the first impression for audience to understand the idea of a noisy environment. Now, how do I expand from that to amplify the message? From the review of the previous stage, I agree that there is a need to work on the channel of sensation, in order to provide better stimulation for the audience.




 Above shows a sculptural performance by Thai artist Rook Floro: "My sculpture is inspired by Carl Jung’s psychological theory about the shadow. It concerns with the repressed ideas, weakness, and desires of oneself that the conscious mind refuses to acknowledge. It represents my ‘shadow’ which involves my hidden desires to be different and become perfect in my own right. We always feel the pressure to be perfect by everything around us such as the media, social network, advertisement, friends, and family."

Being an artist that "investigates ideas of human metamorphosis and particularly the tension between desiring change and appreciating oneself", Rook Floro points out the factors that shape our values. His work shows the resistance of inner voice towards the homogeneity society. So, should I consider channels like media, social network and advertisements as medium to enhance the sensation in receiving the message of Voice Balls?



When Logic Works

I just came to realise there is a term to describe The Voice Balls' mechanism - proportional relation. SIL International, an international non-profit language organisation further explained it as "A proportional relation is a logical relation that establishes a range of conditional relations that together involve direct or inverse correlation." Also, "logical relation is an inter-propositional relation in which a proposition is related to another, in reasoning, as premise to a conclusion, or an antecedent (cause) to a consequent (following as a logical conclusion)."

I'm fortunate to discover this relation, earlier before knowing its scientific credibility. I think it has established a firm foundation for the concept of Voice Balls. It has also reflected my personality as a designer whom would habitually agree to an idea when things are put into logic. I'm not sure whether this just applies to logical person like me, but I believe logic is the essence that would bring people together to start a conversation.

Manipulation Variable: Amount of social expectations
Responding Variable: Loudness of inner voice/ Weight

Now, the concept of Voice Balls is like merging a scientific theory with the social phenomena, and the outcome is actually a product of practical experiment done in a laboratory - to proof that the theory is true.



Craking My Balls

The question leads me to think of the audience's reaction after realising the relationship between inner voice and outer pressure. I was thinking that the artwork needs to bring out some positive impact or else the message of the artwork would be very burdening and sounds passive. Then, the idea of conceptualising this intention using the law of cycle stroke my mind. If we could break the expectations, then we are freed! To "rescue" our voices, is either by removing the expectations that imprint on us, or directly breaking the energy that is pressing on us.


Therefore, I came out with 2 rough ideas to present that thought:


Arranging the balls in a circle, it suggests that if there is a certain change imposed to the outer pressure at a certain point, the chain of inner voices being passively suppressed under the strong pressure would change. Execution 1 shows that the stencil on the outer wall fades away with the paint being wiped away. We wipe away the outer voices to reveal our inner voices. The weight and loudness of the sound are also adjusted into different volume accordingly.

Execution 2 gives a more extreme interpretation of the thought where the balls are broken in different degrees to free the inner voices. The idea was later presented casually in the class as a raw idea in expanding the impression of the artwork.


Prologue: Giving The Balls A Second Life

So, this is a diary documenting the journey how I give birth to my balls. Hopefully it's a successful project after learning from the mistakes made in the previous stage. It's good to recollect some information noting where have I stopped from the first stage, before entering the second and third stages.

These are the outcome in the first stage:


 

The mechanism and idea is very simple and direct: The greater (is) the social expectations, the softer (is) the expression of our inner voice.  So when you hold and shake the ball, the one with the most social expectations is the heaviest and has the softest (inner) voice and vice versa. Being an artwork that is commenting the social phenomena, at a certain degree, I just managed to explore at a very neutral phase. When I put myself into the audience's shoe, I find it might be a memorable piece but then I tend to question myself: "After that, what do I get from it?"


So, that question has become my initial intention to work on. I know in order to get a direction to continue improving the work, self-questioning plays a key role. Sometimes, I would have too many questions to myself and they might be unnecessary. I just have to be caution for that!



Sunday 11 November 2012

Breathe With The Komma Mantra

"The word comma comes directly from the Greek komma, which means something cut off  or a short clause." - Oxford English Dictionary.

Comma affects the flow of information in any form of conversation or sometimes even dictating the meaning. Erm, for example:

With comma, "Helping your uncle, Jack, off his horse."
Without comma, "Helping your uncle Jack off his horse."

So, how do I connect the function of comma with the creative process?



Along the creative process, taking a break or a deep breath to re-evaluate my decision and direction is indeed important. With a refreshed mind and angle, the journey could be continued with clarity. The documentation activities that involve sketching and writing, would perform as tool for me to condense my thinking and organise my thoughts. In my belief, good communication begins with strategic planning. Komma is the platform for me to practice these process and pray that I (must) have the determination to achieve that!