Rusmadiah Anwar

• P.Tech., Ph.D., M.Des., B.A. (Hons.), B.Des.
• Managing Director at MARA University of Technology

The ceramic body strength enhancement in sanitary ware becomes a crucial situation in order to achieve new design development. This design development is directly related to the investigation of present manufacturing process that involved forms, materials and techniques. The material use in this work is typical ceramic body namely porcelain. Porcel...

The Malaysian craft industry needs divulgence to remain intact on the world scene due to the lack of graduates involved in the business ecosystem presently. Art and design graduates as craft practitioners need to lay the knowledge discovered at university into practice. However, graduates avoid venturing into entrepreneurship as their desired job d...

Human interaction intensively impacts design in product manufacturing through design thinking, interpreted product recognition and perceptual product experience (PPE). While the dominant digitalization and artificial intelligence in generative design present significant opportunities for innovation and optimization, there is a gap in adopting holis...

Based on the theory of three levels of culture, this study analyzed the cultural elements of enamel-colored porcelain in Qing Dynasty by using experimental methods. In the process of research, first of all, 10 experts in the field of porcelain design were invited to use Delphi expert consultation method to sort out and summarize42representative ena...

This article examines the harmony or suitability between the National Tourism Strategic Area Document (KSPN) and the Tourism Master Plan (RIP). The successful development of the tourism industry in development is required to have a common perception between the central government and local governments. The author pays special attention to these two...

Evolution in digital platform for gig economy has transformed rapidly since the global pandemic. The evolution spikes, especially on digital platform jobs, are referred to as “freelancers”, “giggers”, or “work on demand” depending on their industry. Hence, this study examines the evolution of digital platform for gig economy, specifically for desig...

Social inclusion for blind people is always neglected when dealing with visual art accessibility, from artwork to art galleries and museums, not to mention the art education system. Exposure to visual art should be easy access for everyone including blind and visually impaired individuals. Many studies have claimed to explore opportunities and expl...

Terracotta is valuable for its mineral content, which produces pigments for coloring ceramic bodies and glazes. Unlike commercial colors, terracotta's natural minerals make it unique. This study explores the potential use of local terracotta clay in transparent glaze formulations. Methods like clay powder percentages, X-ray diffraction, X-ray fluor...

Terracotta is a type of clay that is highly valued for its mineral content. The minerals found in terracotta are commonly used to create pigments that are used to color ceramic bodies and glazes. Terracotta's natural minerals make it unique when compared to commercially available colors. In this study, researchers explored the possibility of using...

This paper reports empirical studies conducted to explore the context of use and user experience in relation to the phenomenon of human behaviors within mainstream products. Through a natural observation approach, this study investigates the nature and factors that trigger unintended behavior between users and daily objects. Unintended use of the p...

This article presents a pilot study conducted in a lab to investigate the design activity and to test the prototype of the 3D printed tactile flashcards on the primary language of arts through the elements of arts and the principles of design. Five volunteers have participated in the design activity. They have been questioned and tested on the prot...

This article investigates the function of tactile through touch senses and verbal feedback that can be used to support blind and visually impaired (BVI) people’s access to visual art aesthetics. Using 3D-printed technology as a prototype is essential and has great potential in today’s art and technology. By adapting the design thinking process, val...

The city today is conceptualized using terms of making cities inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable. The concept of creative cities began to be discussed when the Indonesia Creative Cities Network (ICCN) was formed as part of the creative industry development program. The ecotourism concept is one aspect that must be implemented in creative c...

Using real estate agents to advertise home has long been a common practice. Some developers use a scale model to reflect the design results as a physical model however, the production requires components that cost quite a bit of money and are not practical nowadays. Hence, this study attempt to uncover the challenge of using augmented reality in ma...

An aircraft livery design comprises comprehensive insignia that include colour, visual, and typographic identifiers. Stagecoaches, railroad trains, and steamships all appeared, and the term "livery" came to refer to the interior design of these vehicles. Parts of airline liveries have become increasingly intertwined with ground transportation, adve...

Product gestalt is a way of thought explaining how the designer's brain perceives design in its immediate development process and environment. Any endeavor to create product gestalt requires aesthetic, technical, including the chasm and fuzzy design approach. This paper thus attempts to provide a usable direction to researcher discuss fundamental d...

This paper discusses the methods used to conduct designer perception and design thinking in industrial ceramic product development. The designers themselves struggle to clarify how they make the association that immediately them to be the outcome and why those decisions are rational because the thinking behind design is not completely comprehended....

Each artist reflects what he observes and is conscious of his societal environment. Waste from human activities pollute the environment extensively, resulting in odour pollution for the surrounding population. The main purpose of this study is to introduce and educate the residents of Felda Besout 5, Sungkai Perak on broiler rabbits hide tanning pr...

Terracotta clay is a natural resource that has the potential as a raw material in the ceramic field. This study investigates the effects of color glaze using terracotta clay powder as an alternative substance for ceramic colorants in glaze formulation. Terracotta clay powder is proportionately added to glaze formulations to determine the potential...

Edible bird nest (EBN) is based from swiftlet's saliva and it is widely consumed as a health food due to its high beneficial effects to human health and has been considered to be one of the most precious food items by the Chinese for thousands of years. The role of a scaffolding nest is to guide the young swiftlet to build a typical form of the edi...

Concept Development from research, the blind relies heavily on sensory references like touch to make a spatial judgment – the lack of such often results in accidents. Thus, the solutions physicalize tactile cues, which they can rely on for the next step in the cooking process. Existing solutions in the market are often function-focused, with little...

Cognizant of the nature and need of a creative industries market. In ceramic, the diversity can be seen in the types of production and the scale of manufacture - from 'one-offs' to industrial manufacture. The scope and nature of arts incubators encompass the business-related knowledge, skills, and orientation needed by artists. The established meth...

The humanoid robot has been used in part of the intervention programme for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Some studies address what kind of form and functionality a human-like robot should have to be socially accepted by them as Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) children's motivation faces complex challenges. This research aims to study the specific...

This paper was initiated based on the conceptual framework of Ablution Function Mean Analysis relating to a phenomenon that impacts designer perception in developing new product development for religious-based design. Empirical observation of user-designer exploring the convergent process of ablution design development was set up. The ablution perf...

Since 1963, numerous national symbols have undergone a significant design modification, including Malaysian banknotes. As a symbol of an independent nation, the banknote presents an acceptance of its value but alternately plays as a propaganda tool. This paper aims to examine the illustrations depicted on the first series of Malaysian banknote desi...

New product development, such as strategic conceptual designs, requires maximum effort, resources, expertise, time, and cost. However, due to unclear concern factors from various stages, these had changed the final design differently. Thus, this paper presents a theoretical framework model for performing design research, specifically in studying in...

Incorporate with designomics model, these jewelleries will assist in uplifting their mood, relax their overthinking mind and bring out their inner confidence. The objective of this research is to investigate the type of healing jewellery that can encourage positive behaviour with the usage of the healing stones and design aesthetics. Its aim to exa...

Providing experienced and skilled people at all levels in the printing business are essential elements to building a business model that can help business performance towards global standards. The global printing industry issue is always related to print quality and productivity, moreover as a priority in achieving customer satisfaction. The issues...

Design thinking is a contemplative longing to change the world by exploiting aesthetics, ethics, and knowledge. The designers of design cognition do not adequately clarify which abstract aspects they ponder with their physical condition as the driving force behind producing, selecting, and developing ideas. This research aims to characterise design...

This research attempt to re-designing craft entrepreneurial practices from the conventional approach in the design process and design activity, integrating new technology such as the Internet of thing (IoT) into online visual communication between user-designer. Product design often emphasizes aspects of design elements that result in a good produc...

This research explores the humanoid facial design through Eyes-Mouth Features (EMF) as an indication of human embodied consciousness design. The study will be focused on portraying the practical model based on the syntax context focusing on Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) based design development. This design integrates the value of appealing sensat...

With the rise of global integration of science, technology economy and cultural creative industries develop rapidly. Under the circumstance of rapid development, how to train the development of cultural creative industries talents has become a key factor problem of prosperity society. Institutions of higher learning undertake the four functions of...

This study aims to determine the profile of the printing industry from the point of view of the factors that influence the success of the industry. The influencing factors are marketing and sales and government regulations. Data were collected using the documentation method from literature and regulatory studies and analyzed by using qualitative da...

Haptic communication through pictorial art remains an argumentative subject of aesthetic experience, with many unresolved issues until today that questioning the how and why reactions of various people. Throughout this framework of research, a conceptual examination of experiencing a pictorial work of art (its duration, intensity, and individual ar...

Since digitalisation in the cyber-physical system has taken over design development, researchers attempt to improve the approach to new product development including brand recognition. This research attempt to determine the design strategy based on syntactic design meaning in analysing the visual through design formulation, design treatment and des...

In medical and health care, product design and development play a key role in providing the optimal treatment and diagnosis with significant consideration of human factors, ergonomics, and practicality that meet the technical and clinical standards. Greater design attention through intervention and protocol analysis extended as a vital mechanism to...

The conceptualizing process plays an important role in assisting designers’ creativity in form and styling development. It contributes to representing the cultural elements before product transformation, which has a limited investigation. This research aims to identify the metaphorical form element that conveys the brain impaired as factors of sele...

This paper identifies a new distinction of ecodesign form, where it emerged from the literature case study that most practising designers have not conceived to interpret design research as an ecodesign identity. This research article objective reveals the ecological form creation in the semantics orders. The imaging product digitized an ecological...

This paper purposely to understand the relationship between reference materials and form the embodiment process illustrated in the design drawing sketch. To review the respondent’s design thinking characteristic and to surmise the scenario of the product development issue, a design protocol analysis put in place as a core method. Respondent behavio...

This paper discusses the Malaysia Keris design within the scope of the presence of the Fibonacci sequence component in design related to the art elements and design principles, which make it stand as an iconic item to symbolise Malaysian identity. The existing literature emphasised on the philosophical part of it. Using tool or instrument, of form...

The conceptualizing process plays an important role in assisting designers’ creativity in form and styling development. It contributes to representing the cultural elements before product transformation, which has a limited investigation. This research aims to identify the metaphorical form element that conveys the brain impaired as factors of sele...

This paper argues the flexibility of focus group in Design research as a controlled-experiment setting to study Designerly Intuition at concept-stage decision making. This paper outlines the focus group design in terms of the types and structure considerations and the moderator factor. Finally, the focus-group result gathers dual-mode input from no...

For the past few decades to the era of industry 4.0, young practising designers have been enduring environmental communication challenges in the green manufacturing context. The problems stem from their failure to comprehend the pattern of environment communication phenomenally. The objective of this study is to address the environmentally-driven e...

This book of conference proceedings contains papers presented at the Art and Design International Conference (AnDIC 2016). It examines the impact of Cyberology, also known as Internet Science, on the world of art and design. It looks at how the rapid growth of Cyberology and the creation of various applications and devices have influenced human rel...

Blind User-Designer is a procedural representation of blind users and designers experiences association that provides product design knowledge enhancement for development. It is also an activity of designing through awareness for the purpose of accommodating blind users product performance needs that primarily embodied in the design. In the process...

Intuition in the form development process often associated with creative and cognition. The employment of metaphorical form, one of the creative intuition, serves as source of inspiration where designers tend to perform abstraction with the justification and reasoning based on the knowledge of design principles and elements. The abstraction directi...

The performance of existing spaces designed for the act/function of ablution differs according to the quality of the spatial design of the ablution facility. Earlier studies have shown most of the ablution facilities in mosques are inadequately designed especially on the practical used that equality between physically reasonable needs while perform...

Sculpture is one of the well-known arts in the world. It is a form of 3 dimensional arts that can be feels, see and touch at all edges. So, this research will be studying about Malaysian public sculpture. Unfortunately, there is lack of writing or information about public sculpture in Malaysia. This is because not like painting, it is hard to find...

This elementary study interest is prominence on its physical manifestation rather than the historical understanding of product design creation. All design was distinguished by the methods and material that has been used to create any innovation design. Artifacts are designed with a specific role. Based on the literature, most of the design process...

In the current study it has been tried to propose the existence and popularity of shading mark styles in pencil drawing by novice artists. In designing the methodology, our main purpose was to observe the behavior of the novice artists during the drawing task and analyze the final drawings with reference to the contexts of using shading marks. The...

Metaphors are known to generate creativity in design process. It has been acknowledged that culture, one of the symbolic association in form visual appearance plays an important role in metaphor resemblance and could distinct between ideas of product concepts. In this argumentative paper, the study proposes an investigation to identify the element...

Ceramic art lessons are part of visual arts where ceramics are recognized as three-dimensional objects. Introducing the lesson in the middle year program (MYP) curriculum design for international baccalaureate (IB) visual arts will bring a different experience and understanding towards ceramic art. Learners will experience and start to sense the cr...

The conventional way of blackening Labu Sayong, traditionally or modern style, was by taking out pots from the firing chamber piece by piece after firing reached the maturing temperature of 900 °C. During the process, there is potential for standardizing the blackening effect of the Labu Sayong through the smoke firing process. However, there are s...

The challenge of current trends in design research and point out some of their activities, such as the gap between aesthetic and technical need, and the chasm between ambiguous and quantified in design practice. So, it is hard to surprise the product designers fail to combine a systematical methodology in analyzing design activity. This paper will...

Hydroxyapatite (HA) has been studied in many fabrication techniques for skull reconstructive material. In previous studies, the study has accomplished fabricating the HA through the conventional slip-casting technique. The study revealed that it is challenging to control the casting due to the fast-drying composition of HA when dispersed in sodium...

Green phosphor strontium aluminate activated by Eu2+ and Dy3+, SrAl2O4:Eu2+, Dy3+ powder was synthesized by solid-state reaction by firing at 1250 °C in a graphite crucible. The glow glaze was produced by a combination of SrAl2O4:Eu2+, Dy3+ powder with transparent glaze. Characteristics of the phosphor powders and the posttreated particles such as...

Recently the supply and demand for edible bird nests (EBN) in Malaysia was phenomenal. It was believed that the content of the nest is very nutritious. It was identified that the nest was produced by a swiftlet species, Aerodramus Fuciphagus. In Malaysia, the swiftlet is called the Walet and the EBN was built entirely from threads of its saliva; no...

Ablution is a washing procedure that involves all Muslims before they get closer to God (Allah). Ablution has become synonymous with water consumption; in order to store and dispense water the Muslims have introduced the station to perform the ablution ritual. The practice of ablution has led to a variety of architectural ablution stations from bas...

The need of a walkway or pathway for a blind group is very important in order to lead them to their destination. Conventional relief tactile blocks with guiding information in Malaysia, however, provide only two guiding signs, which are warning and leading signs. The research was conducted in five phases. These phases comprised the small topic acti...

Clay is a deceptively simple material. It is beneficial to the entire world and was made an important commodity. Clay is an unpredictable material because it can be found in the earth already softened with moisture and ready to be worked. However, some of the clay needs modification before it can be used in ceramic manufacture. Malaysia has several...

Fabrication is the crucial phase for ceramicists or manufacturing. The objective of this study was to create the vent block incorporated with extrusion or an extruding technique and identify the suitable properties via extruding techniques. The technique for fabricating the vent blocks is influenced by the strength of the fired modified stoneware b...

Ceramics, as a medium in artwork execution with significant esthetic value always attempted to discover a novel method or investigation in order to enhance these valuable artworks. In this study, we attempted to explore the possibility of luminous glaze to be applied as a third layer decoration on a glazed surface for ceramic artwork. Literally, th...

In ceramic manufacturing, firing is an essential stage of ceramic production. There are several designs for a kiln that can be constructed manually. However, kiln design may not be practical enough for an individual operation to fire a low quantity of ceramic product. The problem is the waste of energy in the firing of low-quantity products. Hence,...

Based on a previous research paper, “A Hypothetical Methodology of Transferring Graduates Knowledge Through Ceramic Art Entrepreneurship,” this chapter discusses results from the case study of rural residents of the Semangat Lita’rafu entrepreneurship model. Through interviews with academics, postgraduates, and rural residents from Jabatan Kebajika...

Ventilation is the main factor for generating a soothing and comfortable environment in a building. It is one of the most important factors for maintaining acceptable indoor air quality and human humidity in buildings. The design of ventilation blocks plays an important role in the influence of air circulation in the house. The ventilation blocks b...

This work describes the studies carried out on agricultural and industrial-based by-products on the SiO2–Al2O3–CaO system, aimed at comparing their effects on a stoneware ceramic body by addition of different shares. After the drying process, modified stoneware was then fired at two temperatures and characterized in terms of relevant functional pro...

The artificial reef is an alternative to marine life as a refuge and as a source of food. In addition, the artificial reef also functions as a place of breeding endangered marine life and helps as a shelter to small fish. Currently the artificial reef is growing around the world and in Malaysia has been produced in a wide range of materials such as...

Muwajjah is an Arabic word meaning front page which can be seen in Quran as a decoration chosen from the Islamic art museum. There are various types of Quran from different countries such as from Iran, Turkey, and India that are embedded with certain influences. This chapter discusses Muwajjah layout design from the Safavid collection using Adobe I...

Nowadays, the revolution of arts changes rapidly. In ceramics the studio product is a very common technique of creating art forms based on traditional ways. The common techniques used in the studio are by using throwing, hand building, coiling, and pinching techniques. There is more focus on freestanding art forms and ceramics functional products....

This research discusses about categorizing new approach of industrial design research through design practice. Ironically, most of the novice designer design flaws and perspectives were not acquiescence with the design solutions. They probably faced with the unruly conclusion between structured and emergent design reasoning. The focus of this resea...

This paper presents the knowledge of investigating the haptic product experience among the Blind and Visually Impaired (BVI) user. It is important that by providing more complete, practical and useful assessment activity for the BVI, designer may build a basis-structured user centered model approach to haptics product design for this group. The kno...

The challenge of current trends in design research and point out some of their activities, such as the gap between aesthetic and technical need, and the chasm between ambiguous and quantified in design practice. So, it is hardly to surprising the product designers fail to combine a systematical methodology in analyzing design activity. This paper w...

This paper reviews the significance of current design practice and its future contribution for establishing product DNA Styling of brand identity based on Malay culture influences. In the paper, we suggest to explore the design DNA of product that could represent brand and identity, especially for the establishment within a Context of Malaysian Des...

This study to seek and gain the understanding of Fish Scales that possibility to be used as an artistic substance in textile design. Toward the research interest, this study has interrelated with inventive and creative design preceding relation. Fish Scales being selected as a propose media for gaining the acquired research interest. This research...

The challenge of current trends in design research and point out some of their activities, such as the gap between aesthetic and technical need, and the chasm between ambiguous and quantified in design practice. So, it is hardly to surprising the product designers fail to combine a systematical methodology in analyzing design activity. This paper w...