Vol. 17 No. 2 (2025)

Innovation in fragrance textiles reflects growing awareness of health, well-being, and aesthetic value. Nature has long served as a source of inspiration for designers and researchers, offering guidance for product innovation. Scents and fragrances are known to contribute positively to human well-being, and advances in textile technology have enabled the application of fragrance finishes through microencapsulation techniques. While visual appearance and fabric durability remain primary considerations for consumers, floral patterns—among the oldest and most favored textile design…

The use of digital applications, particularly online games on smartphones, increased significantly during the Covid-19 pandemic, especially in 2020. One popular game among students is Free Fire, a multiplayer game that enables virtual social interaction. This study aimed to identify latent messages emerging from the verbal and behavioral expressions of young players, as well as how digital figures like Rasyah Rasyid influence celebrity and fandom phenomena among high school students. This study employed virtual ethnography and Associative Concept Network Analysis (ACNA), using the University…

Beauty plays a vital role in persuasive communication, encompassing values such as goodness, usefulness, splendor, comfort, novelty, and metaphorical strength. This study aimed to reinterpret figures of Jesus and Mary through visual language of Balinese wayang, integrating traditional Balinese cultural values. Western visual portrayals often dominate depictions of these Biblical figures, making them appear generic and less engaging to contemporary audiences. Using a qualitative method, with Bishop Robert Barron’s research synthesis of Aristotle, Aquinas, and Balthasar aesthetic, which…

English storytelling activities are expected to help children in vocabulary development and sentence construction, especially for English as a second language (ESL) learners, while keeping the learning process fun and creative. However, in English storytelling activities in elementary schools, many children are found memorizing the stories through provided text. This results in children telling the stories without catching the English words and understanding the flow of the story they are telling, so the story can sound monotonous. Therefore, this research examined the application of two…

Anecdotal accounts suggest that Indonesians perceive culture-specific scripts on typographic artefacts in restaurants as a sign of authenticity and quality. This study examined this notion through qualitative literature synthesis followed by a preliminary quantitative survey. The literature synthesis foregrounded comparable cases where typographic attributes and script choice have been found to influence consumer perception, which shows that the phenomenon is not isolated to Indonesia. The preliminary quantitative survey used a simple frequency analysis of four fictional restaurant logotypes…