The Creation of Ceramic Crafts with Traditional Technology for Export Purpose Following Design Trend 2015

Copyright © 2014 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. ABSTRACT: This article reported the results of a study of the creation of ceramic crafts following design trend 2015. Ceramic craft arts have become one of Indonesian main export commodities. It used social, esthetic and design approaches. The creation method consisted in exploration of shapes as inspiration sources, alternative sketches, working drawings, and prototype preparation process. It gave 25 new prototypes as design standards of coming trend of 2015. The theme raised in 2015 would be Re+Habitate based on the prediction of Indonesian forecasting trends through the focus on the themes of Alliance, Biomimetics, Adroit and Veracious. Six designs would be created for each of the selected themes in the form of product samples. It might be one of the strategies in developing and improving ceramic craft arts, especially in the big ceramic craft art centers in Indonesia as an important part of populist economy