Longevity lock 

It was hanging on the child's neck when the Ming and Qing kind ornaments, according to superstition, as long as Peigua ornaments on this, you can go to the provision of disaster evil, "lock" live life, so many children from birth onwards soon, such ornaments hung, has been linked to adulthood.

Ruyi

Ruyi’s prototype is a kind of toy that used to scratching utensils meaning never ask from people.then it’s morphological changed. Foreign wishful auspicious symbol and0 good luck.

Couplet

In Chinese pro-try, a couplet is a pair of lines of poetry which adhere to certain rules (see below). Outside of poems, they are usually seen on the sides of doors leading to people's homes or as hanging scrolls in an interior. Although often called antithetical couplet, they can better be described as a written form of counterpoint. The two lines have a one-to-one correspondence in their metrical length, and each pair of characters must have certain corresponding properties. A couplet is ideally profound yet concise, using one character per word in the style of classical Chinese. A special, widely seen type of couplet is the spring couplet used as a new year’s decoration that expresses happy and hopeful thoughts for the coming year.

Face mask

Face mask refers to Chinese opera (especially opera) actor's face makeup pattern, because these patterns are specific specifications, it is called Facebook. Facebook's role is to use different colors and lines form a variety of patterns to symbolize the various traits of character and the characters, such as Faithfulness good and evil, and so on.

Lantern

A lantern is a portable lighting device or mounted light fixture used to illuminate broad areas. Lanterns may also be used for signaling, as torches, or as general light sources outdoors. Low light level varieties are used for decoration. The term "lantern" is also used more generically to mean a light source, or the enclosure for a light source. Examples are glass pane enclosed street lights, or the housing for the top lamp and lens section of lighthouse.

Environmental protection is a practice of protecting the natural environment on individual, organizational or governmental levels, for the benefit of both the natural environment and humans. Due to the pressures of population and technology, the biophysical environment is being degraded, sometimes permanently. This has been recognized, and governments have begun placing restraints on activities that cause environmental degradation. Since the 1960s, activity of environmental movements has created awareness of the various environmental issues. There is no agreement on the extent of the environmental impact of human activity, and protection measures are occasionally criticized.

The dove as a symbol of world peace, and for the world recognized, when Picasso began. 1940, Hitler's fascist bandits captured the French capital Paris. Picasso was a dull mood to sit his studio, when someone knocked on the door to a neighbor who is a mish old, I saw the old man holding a bloody pigeons, to Picasso tells a tragic story. The original old grandson kept a flock of pigeons, usually he often fasten strips of white cloth with a bamboo pole as a signal to attract pigeons. When he learned that his father died in the battle to defend Paris, the young mind kindled the anger of hatred. He wanted white bar represents surrender to the enemy, so he switched to red cloth to attract pigeons. Conspicuous red cloth was found in the German invaders, brutal fascist gangsters threw him into the downstairs, died in the streets, but also with a bayonet in the pigeon holes all pick dead pigeons. Old people talking about this, Picasso comes "Sir, I request you to give me painting a dove, a good memory of my grandson was brutally killed by the Fascists." Subsequently, Picasso With grief, swipes plotted a flying pigeon - this is the "Peace Dove" prototype. November 1950, to commemorate the World Peace Conference held in Warsaw, Picasso also gladly drew a mouth, an olive branch Dove. Was a famous Chilean poet Pablo Neruda called it "dove of peace", thus, was formally recognized symbol of peace pigeon think.

Bones

The bones of dead animals or people are corrupt or leftover bones, often dead like symptoms, often incarnation of death or ghost image, also used as material, made of bone.Often used to represent death and danger

Graffiti

Graffiti refers to man-made in the public, private facilities or walls and intentional marks. Graffiti can be a picture, it can be text. A representative of things to represent the views of civil society, but also the street culture

Visual communication

Visual communication is communication through a visual aid and is described as the conveyance of ideas and information in forms that can be read or looked upon. Visual communication in part or whole relies on vision, and is primarily presented or expressed with two dimensional images, it includes:. signs, typography, drawing, graphic design, illustration, Industrial Design, Advertising, Animation colour and electronic resources It also explores the idea that a visual message  accompanying text has a greater power to inform, educate, or persuade a person or audience.

Overview

The evaluation of a good visual communication design is mainly based on measuring comprehension by the audience,  not on personal aesthetic and/or artistic preference as there are no universally agreed-upon principles of beauty and ugliness. Excluding two dimensional images, there are other ways to express information visually - gestures and body language, animation (digital or analogue), and film. Visual communication by e-mail , a textual medium, is commonly expressed with ASCII art , emoticons , and embedded digital images .

The Eye of Horus

The term 'visual presentation' is used to refer to the actual presentation of information through a visible medium such as text or images. Recent research in the field has focused on web design and graphically-oriented usability. Graphic designers also use methods of visual communication in their professional practice. Visual communication on the World Wide Web is perhaps the most important form of communication that takes place while users are surfing the Internet. When experiencing the web, one uses the eyes as the primary sense, and therefore the visual presentation of a website is very important for users to understand the message or of the communication taking place.

The Eye of Horus is often referred to as the symbol of visual communication. It is said to be a representation of an eclipse, as the corona around the pupil is like the corona around the sun during a solar eclipse.

Important figures

Aldous Huxley is highly regarded as one of the most prominent explorers of visual communication and sight-related theories.Becoming near-blind in his teen years as the result of an illness set the stage for what would make him one of the most intellectual people to have ever explored visual communication. His work includes important novels on the dehumanizing aspects of scientific progress, most famously Brave New World and The Art of Seeing . He described "seeing" as being the sum of sensing, selecting, and perceiving. One of his most famous quotes is "The more you see, the more you know."

Max Wertheimer is said to be the father of Gestalt psychology . Gestalt means form or shape in German, and the study of Gestalt Psychology show emphasis in simplicity, as its properties group visuals by similarity in shape or color and proximity. Looking for continuation, closure, and figure-ground principles in studied images is also intensively taught.

Study of visual communication

Students studying visual communication are taught the basic physics of light, anatomy and physiology of the eye, cognitive and perception theories, color theories, Gestalt psychology , aesthetics, natural reading patterns, design principles, semiotics , persuasion, camera/filming actions and image-types, and so forth. Colleges for visual communications differ in their approach, but most combine theory and practice in some form.

Visual communication takes place through pictures , graphs and charts , as well as through signs , signals and symbols . It may be used either independently or as an adjunct to the other methods of communication.

Image analysis

Visual communication contains image aspects. The interpretation of images is subjective and to understand the depth of meaning, or multiple meanings, communicated in an image requires analysis.

The Visual Communication Design program educates and trains designers for the communication needs of industry and society. Emphasis is placed on the conception, creation, planning and realization of visual solutions to complex problems in contemporary culture. Students integrate methodology, prototyping, aesthetics, human factors, technology, materials, context and audience to develop strategies and solutions that give form to print, screen and the built environment. Faculty emphasize the objectives of design rather than the process of production, and encourage innovative visual ideas that inform, interpret, instruct or persuade the intended user across the spectrum of application.

The success of the program is evidenced by the receipt of numerous national and international student design awards/scholarships as well as significant publications. Three international design journals, Novum (Germany), IDEA (Japan), and Art and Design (China) have produced major articles on design education featuring the University of Washington program of Visual Communication Design.

Visual Communication Design is one of the largest undergraduate programs in the School of Art. It has evolved over the past 20 years into a professional program primarily aimed at visual communication in the corporate, institutional and municipal sectors. It is an intensive program emphasizing visual problem solving, organizational skills, and information theory. The curriculum includes all phases of typography, information design, design systems, exhibition design, publication design, new media, and visual methods/processes.

POP CULTURE

Popular culture is everywhere. You know it when you come to the Internet, listen to music, watch television or go to a movie, concert or stage show. You the know the artists, the actors and actresses, sports personalities and the games they play . Today, anything with a buzz is deemed pop culture. The book definition says pop culture is a collection of thoughts, ideas, attitudes, perspectives, images preferred by the mainstream population. A sort of common denominator. 

The most common pop culture catagories are: entertainment (movies, music, TV), sports, news (as in people / places in news), politics, fashion / clothes and technology Slang, has also become popular in our culture as each year. seems to have its own slang signature, especially with tweens and teens Terms such as "going viral" are new pop culture -. not only the term, but the viral product itself. 

Each one of us has our own pop culture menu Look at your apps, your bookmarks, your songs playlist, TV shows, movies:. What you 're saying on your favorite social net Smartphones today are the center of your pop culture.. 

Although not used in our lexicon back then - modern pop culture (as we know it) began with the baby boomer generation and ". Buying power" As boomers came of age with their disposable incomes - that influence led the pop culture revolution It began. during the 1950's with rock n 'roll, TV, Dick Clark and the hoola hoop, transistor radios, into the 1960's and beyond. 

The term "pop culture" became mainstream during the 1980's. Before this, we used "popular" to describe things such as, top song playlists or "pop" as in art or "best" or "top" selling, as in books. 

Pop culture is fun, fascinating and is at the center of our lives.

WEEK 1

What is Brand?

Brand is often the company name or logo referenced for a specific business. 'Branding' is when their name, logo or company specific identifiers are strategically placed to better market their brand to the consuming public.

what is brand identity ?

The visible elements of a brand (such as colors, design, logotype, name, symbol) that together identify and distinguish the brand in the consumers' mind.

WEEK 2

Brand analysis-Choose a brand that you are interested in/relevant to your major field of studies, analyse by

-overview

-vision & mission statement

-meaning/value

-competitors example

-brand dynamic/mechanic, eg. roadshow, merchandizes , TVC etc.

overview

Nike is the world's leading sporting goods manufacturer, headquartered in Oregon, producing all-inclusive sporting goods: clothing, footwear, sports equipment and so on. Nike trademark logo is a small hook.

Vision

Why is this so important symbol for Nike's corporate culture? Reason is that it's ancient wisdom and the United States "just do it" (Just Do It) are inseparable. Nike does not sell shoes, it sold a way of life, which is the key to its success. The logo for inspiring and energetic and determination behind this philosophy is that everyone concerned with, whether you are not athletes. Nike use one kind of inspirational style of language to motivate consumers. No matter who you are, what your hair or skin color is, you suffered physical or social life, what limitations, Nike convince consumers that you can do. It tells people to pull ourselves together, grasp the steering wheel of life, and to take action. In the "just do it" ad behind, is a very American-style ideology; However, with the progress of globalization, the original ideology of what the United States, became a common desire around the world, eager to there is a level playing field, allowing people not only in sports but in every aspect of life are a short length of contention. This can be traced back to early American pioneer spirit, and their desire for success. Nike is undoubtedly the great American dream of global marketing and promotion of their work ethic; Nike tells its customers, if you are determined, unremitting struggle, you will surpass others, to conquer everything. Borrowed by such methods, namely the use of people's fervent desire for success, Nike has also created its own kind of personality and attitude. Through clever use of a very simple ad punch line, it succeeded in an attitude toward life into the commodities they sell.

Meaning/value

NIKE this name, in the eye of the West was very lucky, and easy to read and easy to remember, can be called very loud. Nike trademark symbolizes the Greek goddess of victory wings of feathers, representing the speed, but also represents the dynamic and gentle. Nike Nike's trademark, is a small hook patterns, modelling simple and powerful, urgent, such as lightning, to see people think of using speed and explosiveness after the Nike sports goods produced. For the first time to "Nike" name sports shoes, soles square convex tablets to enhance the stability, both sides of the body of the shoe has a knife-shaped curved hook, a symbol of the goddess of the wings.

Competitors example 

Nike's dominance in the victory over a strong opponent after another established. 

For example, as a rising star, Nike has faced tremendous pressure Adidas. The company is its founder - German Adi Dassler (Adi Dassler) named, is the world's oldest sporting goods manufacturer. On the 11th Olympic Games in 1936, an outstanding African-American athlete Jesse Owens running shoes foot 登阿迪达斯 one stroke to win four gold medals. Since then, as the world's best track and field shoes, Adidas thriving for decades. 1972, the first available start selling Nike shoes. Over the next 20 years, gradually Nike, Adidas completely eaten lunch. Today, Adidas's sales in the United States ranked only 4, was Nike's far behind them.

brand dynamic/mechanic, eg. roadshow, merchandizes , TVC etc.

Nike has been around the world will inspire every athlete and offer their best products as glorious task. Nike's language is the language movement. Nike has put a lot of manpower and material resources for new product development and research. Nike's first Air technology to the sports world has brought a revolution. The use of this technology to produce sports shoes can well protect the athlete's knee, reducing the impact on the knee when it landed as strenuous exercise in

• Legenda Education Group. 

There are five Higher Education Institutes in Mantin, namely Kolej Universiti Linton (Linton College University), Institut Teknologi Pertama (Pertama Institute of Technology) Institut Jati (Jati Institute), Institut Sains Perubatan Mantin (Institute of Medical Science Mantin), and Kolej Legenda (Legenda College).

These colleges were listed under Legenda Education Group (Abbreviation: LEG Malay: Kumpulan Pendidikan Legenda). 

Sky view of Education and Hostel block in Bandar Universiti Teknlogi Legenda, Mantin.

Sign Post of the Five Higher Education Institutions listed under Legenda Education Group.

Group Photograph From Left (Pitt, Middle Doris and Mark) active members of Group B. 

Inside Campus showing Linton University College.

Shopping Malls built around the exterior of Legenda Campus.

Mark (Group B Leader) Returning to Vertical Studio after sightseeing Mantin.

Food to eat in "Mantin." 

Due to its demographic, Mantin was famous for traditional Hakka food.

If you want to find the "signature" Mantin food, you got to go Old Mantin. Old Mantin prepares and serves traditional Chinese rice pudding. 

If you are fan for stuff tofu (Yong Tofu, 酿豆腐), Old Mantin serves the most authentic Hakka Yong Tau Fu there. Usually you will see a lot of flour in the stuff, but here, it is real meat!

The most famous Yong Tau Foo vendor has lost its glory after the demolition of the old theater, which was next to its original shop. The vendor now operates at the Mantin Hawker Center which is located on the main street.

Favorite Dish: Chinese Rice Pudding - Xian Cha Guo, or Woon Chai Kou (碗仔糕), Put Chai Kou (缽仔糕), Chwee Kuey (水粿)，or Chai Tao Kuey (菜頭粿). Rice pudding was originally a dessert found in the regions of Guangdong and Xiamen. It was brought to Malay Peninsular when the Southern Chinese migrated here. As the time went by, many traditional desserts were not passed down and disappeared along the way.

Old Mantin inherits the authentic rice pudding recipe and method of preparation. It gives us the opportunity to enjoy this wonderful traditional dessert.

Jerome and Doris deciding where to eat in Matin. Doris wants to eat in a local food shop.

Mark (Leader, Group B) order a plate of the famous Yong Tau Foo.

From Left Doris, Jerome and Pitt enjoy a local dish with non-alcoholic beverages.

Gastronomy - I recommend anyone to try Yong Tau Foo when in Mantin - Mark.

Cabinet of Curiosity >> Presenting >> Mantin Town

Cabinet of Curiosity >> Presenting >> Mantin Town

Group Project Work

Task: Study (Mantin) town in Reneger Semblance, Malaysia. Present in Cabinet of Curiosity.

Group B List.

Mark     -    (Group Leader)

Pitt         -   (Active Member)
Doris      -   (Active Member)
Lei          -   (Active Member)
Jerome    -  (Active Member)
Jason       -  (Inactive Member)
Reda       -   (Inactive Member)

Mantin

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mantin is a town in Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia. It is under administration of Nilai District. It lies along the main road connecting Kajangand Seremban.

Origin of the name "Mantin." 

In the early days, Mantin was well known because of tin mining business by a Chinese towkay (business owner) named Kong Sang. Due to plenty of tin, the Europeans called the place Mine Tin for at this place tin (lombong timah). However, the locals could not pronounce Mine Tin correctly. Instead, they called the place Mantin.

Raw Tin.

Finished Product from Tin.

The earliest account of Mantin was related to Kapitan Seng Ming Lee (甲必单盛明利), the first Chinese chief who as killed in 1860 in a war between Chinese secret societies (Hai San and Ghee Hin) near Sungei Ujong (presently Seremban).[2] His descendents fled to Mantin. Today (as of February 2009) the great-grand children of Kapitan Seng still live in Mantin.


Situated in a valley surrounded by hills, Mantin has been a favorite sanctuary and hiding place for war and crime refugees. In addition to Kapitan Seng Ming Lee's descendants, large groups of Hakka were said to have migrated here, especially from Titi, during Japanese occupation of Malaya during 1943.[3]

Economic Transformation of  "Mantin." 

Until 1903, the geographical location of Mantin in a valley has made it inaccessible to mainstream transportation. A railroad from Kuala Lumpur to Seremban was completed in 1903.[4] The railroad passes through Batang Benar town, thus providing an access point at the western side of the town. At that time, British miners brought in large numbers of dredgers into Mantin, bringing about an economic boom.

Following the completion of the railway connecting Seremban and Kajang in 1903 which made the export of tin economical, Mantin became a town. The town attracted a large number of Chinese migrants, mainly Hakka, for the tin mining business. Mantin was the center of tin mining business of Negeri Sembilan in the early 20th century.

Batang Benar - Railway Station.

Outside View of Batang Benar - Railway Station.

Doris - Mark - Jerome at the (Bus Stop) of Batang Benar - Railway Station.

Batang Benar - Railway Station Counter.

Batang Benar - Railway Station Sign Post.

Batang Benar -  Railway Track.

Get around "Mantin." 

Mantin is a small town and there is just one main street (Jalan Besar) so it is unlikely, if not impossible, to get lost. If lost, just ask around for direction.

Be sure to look left and right before crossing any street, especially the main street. Like other small towns in Malaysia, motorcycles like to ride against traffic on the same lane for their own convenience and laziness.

Jalan Besar - Also known as the main street.
It is where most of the attractions and historical buildings are located.

Historical places to see in "Mantin." 

• Gurudwara Sahib Sikh Temple. 

It was built in 1890s and is one of the oldest Sikh temple in Malaysia.

Gurudwara Sahib Sikh Temple.

Walk Way Into The Gurudwara Sahib Sikh Temple.

Members of Our Group Meeting with (Harbans Kaur) Head of Administration Gurudwara Sahib Sikh Temple.  

Photographed Copy of Basic Knowledge of Sikhism.

Photographed Copy of SHREE GURU NANAK DEV (The 1st of the 10 Gurus and founder of Sikhism).

Photographed Copy of SHREE GURU GOBIND SINGH (The 10th and the last of Gurus of Sikhism).

Photo of The interior of of Sikh Temple.

Group Photograph - From Left (Mark - Leader of Group B. 2nd Left, A Sikh Priest, (Middle) Harbans Kaur (Head of Admin), Doris and Jerome (Active Members of Group B). 

Picture of The 100 years old Miraculous Well of The Sikh Temple.  

Deep Down Dwells The Miracle Water.

Mark, Doris and Jerome (Active Members of Group B) saying goodbye to Sikh Temple.

Mark, Doris and Pitt (Active Members of Group B) saying thank you to Sikh Temple.

• St. Aloysius Catholic Church. 

It was built in 1901 with impressive architecture. It used to be famous for its nunnery but the nuns have moved to Seremban in recent years.

Sign Post of The Church Of St. Aloysius, Mantin.

Exterior of the Church Building (Impressive Architectural Masterpiece). 

The Fine Art of the Church Building.

Statue of Jesus.

Status of St. Clare.

The Library of St. Aloysius Church. 

The Cafeteria of St. Aloysius Church.

Mark and Active Members of Group B sightseeing the Church premises.