Creative studies: Lesson 1

Defining Creative

This is the first blog assignment for the course Creative Studies MLC 1013. In this assignment we are being requested to post a photo of a person who is creative or a person who is doing some creative things and then elaborate and explain the reason of why we think it is creative. Since this considered as the lecture is being delivered starting from this week I considered this as the first class. Currently, I'm not quite sure what this class about, and it seems to me pretty much like the Media Culture and Media Appreciation class the previous semesters. But I'll try to understand it as much as possible.





I personally have been a fan of handmade products for since I read a book about Taiwan artists who love to make handmade products so much that some of them are even willing to resigned from high salary job to achieved their dream which is considered as something meaningless among ordinary people.

Their passion soon awaken other talented people around the world who bore the same dream as they do. More and more people in Malaysia are participating in this event. There are so many creative market and fairs being held especially in Kuala Lumpur since the past 3 years. Seeing what they are doing reminds me of a few important points mentioned in the creative studies class. One of the point mentioned is that only special talented people are creative which is not quite true as we can see from these artists, people always sees them possessing remarkable creativity and outstanding skills in what they are doing but the truth is though they possessed ability and creativity higher than average people but they also work much more harder than we think they do. Almost all of these artists only starts to work on their products after they came home from office work like other regular people. Though exhausted and tired from the long hour work, they still continues to work on the things they like, putting lots of efforts in creating the intricate details in their work. And during weekends and public holidays, they are not resting too. They will gather up all the products they have made and sell them or participating local art fairs and creative markets.

There's also one thing I learned from them is that they always hold tight to a principle of always upgrading their skills and designs to make improvements to their current dedsigns and also sharing their knowledge and designs with one another. They prove to other people that the idea that we have to have brand new ideas to be considered as creative is incorrect. In fact, many of the creative ideas are developed from existing ideas with the difference that the designer innovate the designs to improve it or developed a new products with the ideas derived from an old designs. Taking an example, what makes these artists special from one another is the way they incorporate designs that is so significate that people are able to identify their design by just one look. The design can be just a motif of a kitten, but the way modify and adding details to the cat to make it special is not something easy but also requires quite an amount of creativity.