Despro News (September 20, 2018) The Alliance of Indonesian Industrial Product Designers (ADPII) in mid-September launched the book "Craft and Design in Indonesia". The book, written by Adhi Nugraha, Yannes Martinus Pasaribu, Damang Chassianda Sarumpaet, Andry Masri, W.A., Guspara, M. Zaini Alif, Dwinita Larasati, and Fiki C. It contains 8 titles related to the development of craft and design in Indonesia. ADPII Chairman, Dino Febriant and Deputy Head of Bekraf RI, Ricky Joseph Pesik, also gave remarks at the beginning of the book.
In their foreword, Andry Masri and Yannes Martinus Pasaribu, the editors, write that questioning whether craft is design can be interpreted as distrusting someone "are you the child's mother?". It is clear that craft and design have something in common: creation, a process of creation that results in a creation. Of course, a process involves how one thinks about the process, how one makes decisions, and how one's decisions will be interpreted by others. According to them, the interesting thing about craft is that the thought process of the person doing the process involves a beautiful collaboration of skills, sensibilities, and materials, working together through the creative impulse.
The interesting thing is that craft is a field that was born much earlier than some other fields, because craft is a form of thinking as well as a person's action to create something in overcoming the limitations of his body through the process of observing what is taught by the environment, how a plait is produced, is very likely inspired by how a bird produces a nest, he continued. However, such an old age does not make this field something interesting at the academic level, it is almost impossible to find books that discuss craft from a theoretical perspective, as if craft is a field that has no scientific value, most books on craft are more often about craft work as a person's experience.
But, is "craft" then what is meant in Indonesia? In the book "Craft and Design in Indonesia" we will be able to find the answer. The printed version of the book is available at the Despro Center Room, Product Design Building 2nd floor, Faculty of Fine Arts ISI Yogyakarta, Jl. Parangtritis KM 6.5 Sewon, Yogyakarta. The ebook version can be downloaded for free at here.
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