Vol. 5 No. 2 (2013)

Bas-basan Sepur is a traditional board game, commonly played by teenagers that challenge the strategy skills of two players. Like the other traditional games, the existence of bas-basan Sepur is forgotten due to disconnection of cultural inheritance from parents to their children and also the loss of children’s playground and play time. Children nowadays are more interested in modern digital games such as video games and mobile games. Accordingly, the effort to reintroduce bas-basan Sepur into a digital game design is quite effective to attract children. The game design includes the process…

Cirebonese shadow puppet (wayang kulit) is one of the traditional Indonesian wayang cultures. Located in the north beach of Java, the city of Cirebon once functioned as a trading port for foreign merchants from all over China, Arabia and India. While selling their local goodies, the activities triggered an exchange of cultures between the foreign traders and the Indonesians. One of the results from the acculturation is Cirebonese shadow puppet. It combines the root story of Ramayana-Mahabharata from India, Islamic stories from Arabia, and unique color schemes from China. The accelerating…

Indonesia has the potential to become a respected developed nation, but until now it is still riddled with many problems. The pride of Indonesians to their country must be restored to motivate them to contribute to the nation. The media that will be used is mobile game with targeted segment Indonesian middle-class youth aged 15-21 years old. Research method used are observation, literature study, and interview with related parties. The content that will be used are native or acquired Indonesian technology and innovations. This is important because those are the base of a nation's development.…

The invasion of Japanese pop culture since 1990's influences contemporary visual art and design development especially comics in Indonesia. Popularity of Japanese comic or manga incites Indonesia's comics that adapting Japanese manga visual style. One of Indonesia's comic which influence by manga is Garudayana. Garudayana adopt storyplot and manga-esque style; however Garudayana still elaborates wayang storyplot from Indonesian tradition, but in different perspective. The creator elaborates wayang purwa, the prequel story of Mahabharata, the ingeneous wayang storyplot. Is Yuniarto the…

In general, Indonesian society is still don't understand the high level risk of earthquake hazard threat in their own region. Ignorance of this information can be very fatal for the society. City with developing infrastructure and high population density has higher risk of earthquake disasters. These two are the factors of vulnerability that make Bandung as a high risk city of earthquake disasters. The society needs to know about earthquake mitigation in order to minimize the risk of earthquake disasters. One way of informing and introducing earthquake mitigation is through mobile devices…

Hipster logo is popular through online interaction among designers. The theme hipster which refers to modernizing old stuffs is becoming a trending logo design style in 2012. Through structural analysis on 12 confirmed logos as hipster logo, this study will depict the significant graphic elements of hipster logo. This study is conducted to identify what makes a logo called hipster logo. This study will also explain the reasons of certain graphic elements works as iconic visual elements of hipster logo. Through structural analysis, this study finds that circular shape, X symbol or X…

Pokémon is one of worldwide famous franchise content from Nintendo which released as game in 1996. The game series of Pokémon later massively developed into various entertainment content and media with wide range of merchandising. The basic content of Pokémon is character exploration in a set of world with emphasizing the relationship between Pokémon and its trainers. There are more than 600 Pokémon characters introduced to the public until 2012. The wide numbers of characters are developed in order to embrace the wide variety of audience's interests which are basically developed from…