Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Week 3 : Novelty,Innovation And Invention

This week class we've been thought about novelty, innovation, invention, and creativity. In this post i will try to explain my own idea about what I've learn from lecture.

Novelty
nov⋅el⋅ty [nov-uhl-tee]
–noun
1. state or quality of being novel, new, or unique; newness: the novelty of a new job.
2. a novel occurrence, experience, or proceeding: His sarcastic witticisms had ceased being an entertaining novelty.
3. an article of trade whose value is chiefly decorative, comic, or the like and whose appeal is often transitory: a store catering to tourists who loaded up with souvenir pennants and other novelties.

Novelty is about the quality of being new and unique. Novelty can be divided into two different types which is subjective and objective novelty. Point of view of anything and everything being new or different by a single person is called subjective novelty. Objective novelty is a progression about something new through ages.

Innovation
in⋅no⋅va⋅tion [in-uh-vey-shuhn]
–noun
1. something new or different introduced: numerous innovations in the high-school curriculum.
2. the act of innovating; introduction of new things or methods.


Innovation from my point of view is the ability or process to turn some existed thing into something new that can be accepted by the community. Innovation also need to be satisfy the particular need of everyone.
source: http://www.ecodesignz.com/Merchant2/graphics/00000001/ED_02SideChair_F.jpg

This is maybe the first invented chair that can be found in the old days. But now there are too many new designed chair that also have a another function besides just sitting on it.

The Example of the new designed Chair.
The Transforming Table Chair
if you want to know more about this chair u can click the source address : http://www.yankodesign.com/2007/09/26/awesome-table-chair/


One Piece Plastic Chair
source: http://www.danish-furniture.com/images/verner-panton-chair.jpg

Invention
in⋅ven⋅tion [in-ven-shuhn]
–noun
1. the act of inventing.
2. U.S. Patent Law. a new, useful process, machine, improvement, etc., that did not exist previously and that is recognized as the product of some unique intuition or genius, as distinguished from ordinary mechanical skill or craftsmanship.
3. anything invented or devised.
4. the power or faculty of inventing, devising, or originating.
5. an act or instance of creating or producing by exercise of the imagination, esp. in art, music, etc.
6. something fabricated, as a false statement.
7. Sociology. the creation of a new culture trait, pattern, etc.
8. Music. a short piece, contrapuntal in nature, generally based on one subject.
9. Rhetoric. (traditionally) one of the five steps in speech preparation, the process of choosing ideas appropriate to the subject, audience, and occasion.
10. Archaic. the act of finding.


To me, invention is a process of creating or producing a new thing or idea through knowledge and experience. Being a great inventor is to create or produce a something new and useful for everyone to use it in everyday life.

Example of invention:

source: http://www.bodylax.ca/product/BL-3178/chairpicture.jpg
Massaging chair. This was invented to give some comfortable to the user.

source: http://openclipart.org/people/webmichl/webmichl_light_bulb.png
The simplest invention that benefit the human so much. Light Bulb make the world lighten up every night.

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Week 2 : Creative and Creativity Definition

This week, I learned about the creative and creativity in the creative studies class.

CRE.A.TIVE
[kree-ey-tiv]
–adjective
1.having the quality or power of creating.
2.resulting from originality of thought, expression, etc.; imaginative: creative writing.
3.originative; productive (usually fol. by of).
4.Facetious. using or creating exaggerated or skewed data, information, etc.: creative bookkeeping.

source: dictionary.com
What is creative in my point of view?
Creative is the power to produce a great idea and to create something new that have a benefits to either our self or people. In order for us to be creative is we must have a lot of observation around us, experiences and also require a lot of thinking. For example, if we want to create new functional gadgets, we can't just sit in one place and keep thinking without doing anything. We have to look up for a references so that we can come out with a creative ideas.

source: http://jalopnik.com/cars/tokyo-auto-show/tokyo-auto-show-preview-honda-puyo-concept-car-has-no-edges-begs-to-be-fondled-308551.php

Picture above is one the example of creative ideas.


Cre·a·tiv·i·ty [kree-ey-tiv-i-tee, kree-uh-]
–noun
1. the state or quality of being creative.
2. the ability to transcend traditional ideas, rules, patterns, relationships, or the like, and to create meaningful new ideas, forms, methods, interpretations, etc.; originality, progressiveness, or imagination: the need for creativity in modern industry; creativity in the performing arts.
3. the process by which one utilizes creative ability: Extensive reading stimulated his creativity.

source:dictionary.com
My understanding about creativity:
I think creativity is an ability to turn the creative idea to something real. Its just like you think of something new and you make it real, make it possible for us to see and also touch the think from your imagination. for example is like to create a new character for an animation, first you have to think of it first, then you'll see it in your mind, after that you have to sketch your idea on the paper. That is the thinking creative part. The part how you make the character alive is the creativity.