Creative Studies Week 5

Today, our lecturer Mr. Mustafa Muzer has giving a lecture about Logical Mind Map. Mind mapping, introduced by Tony Buzan is a great tool for idea generation and brainstorming. There have 3 types of mind mapping, Logical Mind Map, Associated Mind Map, and Logical Mind Map &Stereotypes.
Those are some Mind Map example:

Why Mc.Donalds bugger can make a lot of money, and a bugger store beside road just can make a litter money? This is because Mc.Donalds has their own mind map, but the bugger store did'n has a great mind map.

Question 1: What is Multimedia to you? (Definition)

 Multimedia is combination of Text, Audio, Video, Animation,and Image. Multimedia is media and content that uses a combination of different content form.

Question 2: Seek information of Mortar and Pestle.

The mortar is a bowl, typically made of hard wood, ceramic or stone. The pestle is a heavy club-shaped object, the end of which is used for crushing and grinding.

Question 3: Why do we have to use substance?

Because combination of substance may created a new substance, this is called creative.

Creative Studies Week 4

Today, Mr. Mustafar has giving lecture about history of ART. Starting of the lecture, Mr. Mustafar said YO!! is for understand and YEAH!! is for don't understand. After that, Mr. Mustafar shows us three talk from TED. The first talk is about an artist named 'Leonardo Da Vinci, and three art work is show.

Mesopotamian Creativity > Egyptian Creativity > Indian Creativity > Greek and Hellenistic Creativity > Roman Creativity > Byzantine Creativity > Islamic Creativity > Medieval European Creativity.

The second TED talk is about how does people know the time last time? The answer is simple they made a computer known as Astrolabe.  If someone want to change something, he/she will gain and loses something.

The third TED talk is about Design.

Question 1: What trait made them Creative?

The Hierarchy of need. They feel comfortable in thing they do.

Question 2: What environmental condition existed?

The environment condition is somewhere not too hot and not too cold where have to spent their time outside figuring what of ideas could it bring to them.

Question 3: What was the process of creativity?

The creative attribute has always been a highly debated and researched component of the human psyche. The 'designer' job tittle seems to be one that calls to the more creative minded among us and according to some, requires the highest level of creative processing. This idea does lend itself to the truth, web designers are called upon to find creative solutions every day. However, we certainly aren't alone.

Creative Studies Week 3

Today, Mr. Yap Sau Bin is giving a lecture about ability to something new. How to discover newness? We have to try out something that we never try. What You See Is What You Get, we have to observed every thing that around us.

What is the definition of Creativity?
Creativity is the ability to think up and design new inventions, produce work of art, solve problems in new ways.
Three reasons why people are motivated to be creative:
1. need for novel, varied, and complex stimulation
2. need to communicate ideas and values
3. need to solve problems

The first question has asked by Mr. Yap:

What does it tell us about process of invention and innovation?
Invention is if the formulation of new ideas for product or processes. Innovation is all about applications into marketable products or services. The process of Invention is the cognitive realization that there is a weakness in current technology, there must be a culture of tolerance for things 'new' in a society. Process of Innovation is do with finding better or more efficient ways of producing existing products ---> advantages ---> possible drawbacks.


The 2nd question asked by Mr Yap:
Ask yourself what kind of environment, situation etc, would make you to become a creative/ inventive / innovative person?
To be Creative, I choose the environment that lonely, because lonely may make me have infinity imagination. If I want to be inventive i will ask my friends to force me to thing the invention that i'm going to create. Innovation comes along ones people buy your product and it become famous.