SAMANTHA JIZAN AMRULLAH

  22/02/2025 - 07/03/2025 (Week 4 - Week 5) Samantha Jizan Amrullah / 0375606 Intercultural Design / Bachelors of Design (Honors) in Creative Media / Taylor's University Project 2: Data Collection LECTURES There were no lectures during Data Collection week. INSTRUCTIONS TASK Project 2: Data Collection  During these weeks, we were assigned to collect data and do further research and analyzation for our project that is relevant to our chosen theme. Because we were told to create  informational TikTok videos  later on, we have decided to explore the basic knowledge of traffic signs in general and then plan out both a qualitative and a quantitative research regarding our topic. For the background research, we explored the history of traffic signs and how they are made. A. BACKGROUND RESEARCH  Fig. 3.1, Text-based traffic signs Traffic congestion  isn’t just about bad driving, it’s also about  how we interpret road signs . Sometimes they are not as eff...

  07/02/2025 - 21/02/2025 (Week 1 - Week 3) Samantha Jizan Amrullah 0375606 Intercultural Design / Bachelors of Design (Honors) in Creative Media / Taylor's University Project 1: Proposal LECTURES Lecture 1: Culture & Design Visuals are powerful persuasive medium that tell and provide information about the world. It is apparent that humans can process information faster through visuals and imagery rather than text and words. This is proven from the fact that 40% of people respond more to visuals than text. Also, 90% of information transmitted to the brain in the form of visuals and visuals are processed 60.000 times faster than text. In a nutshell, visual is everything that can be seen by the human eye. This definition is wide, all-inclusive to nature. However, nature is not culture, except when there is meaning and representation attached by humans. Fig 1.1, Visuals without and with meaning and representation Awareness of cultural nuances, symbolisms and context are neede...

In this project, we are going to finalize our idea, compiling it into a set of information and data. For the final project, we are all tasked to create a tiktok account that holds all of the research and output of our task. The tiktok account that we are posting them in will be a compilation of videos based on our work that we have worked on for the task within the semester. As our main topic is about the everyday design, we as a group have decided to pick the main focus of traffic signs in Indonesia as a point of interest. We emphasized how traffic is so prevalent not only in Indonesia, but throughout various densely populated countries like Malaysia as well, that it has became a culture of its own. Bad driving habits has contributed to the horrible traffic across the countries that it has turned into an everyday culture.  As a group, we decided to tackle one of the sign that has contributed to the horrible congestion and bad driving culture, which is the “belok kiri jalan terus” ...